Mr. Edward Janger

Prof. Edward J. (Ted) Janger is the David M. Barse Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School in NewYork and teaches and writes in the areas of bankruptcy law, commercial law, consumer credit and data privacy. His articles have appeared in the Illinois Law Review, the Michigan Law Review, the Texas LawReview and the Yale Law Journal. Prof. Janger?s recent scholarship explores issues of value-allocation and governance in chapter 11 cases, cross-border bankruptcy, the resolution of systemically important\nfinancial institutions, and the treatment of financial contracts in bankruptcy. He is co-director of theCenter for the Study of Business Law & Regulation at Brooklyn Law School. Prof. Janger is the past chair of the Association of American Law Schools? Section on Commercial and Consumer Law, and he is a member of the American College of Bankruptcy, the International Insolvency Institute and theAmerican Law Institute. He has served as consultant to the Business Bankruptcy Subcommittee of theFederal Bankruptcy Rules Advisory Committee. He has held both the Maurice R. Greenberg and theAnne Urowsky Visiting Professorships at Yale Law School, and the Bruce W. Nichols Visiting Professorship at Harvard Law School, and he served for a semester as an ABI Robert M. Zinman Scholar-in-Residence. Prof. Janger joined the Brooklyn Law School faculty in 1998 after teaching at WashingtonUniversity School of Law in St. Louis and Ohio State University College of Law. Prior to teaching, he practiced as an associate with the firm of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering in Washington, D.C., where he specialized in bankruptcy and litigation, and he clerked for Hon. Irving L. Goldberg of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Prof. Janger received his B.A. from Yale College and his J.D. from theUniversity of Chicago Law School.