Mr. Andrew B. Dawson

Prof. Andrew B. Dawson is vice dean for Academic Affairs and the Judge A. J. Cristol Professor of Bankruptcy at the University of Miami School of Law in Coral Gables, Fla., having joined the faculty in 2011. He teaches bankruptcy, business associations, contracts and commercial law. He also is of counsel at Sequor Law, a member of the International Insolvency Institute?s NextGen Leadership Program, and previously served as the reporter for the Labor and Benefits Subcommittee of the American Bankruptcy Institute?s Commission to Study the Reform of Chapter 11 and as an ABI Robert M. Zinman Scholar-in-Residence. Prof. Dawson?s research has focused on the intersection of federal bankruptcy and labor laws, both in the corporate and municipal bankruptcy context. He contributed to the study of cross-border insolvency under the UNCITRAL Model Law on Cross Border Insolvency. After the U.S. adopted the Model Law in 2005, he conducted the first empirical study of chapter 15. Prior to joining the UM faculty, Prof. Dawson clerked in the Delaware Bankruptcy Court for Hon. Peter J. Walsh and in the Third Circuit Court of Appeals for Hon. Jane R. Roth, and was a Kauffman Legal Fellow at Harvard Law School. He received his B.A. from Williams College and his J.D. from Harvard Law School, where he was senior editor of the Harvard Negotiation Law Review. He also received the ABI Medal of Excellence in Bankruptcy and the Irving Oberman Memorial Award for best student bankruptcy paper.