Prof. David Arthur Skeel

Prof. David A. Skeel, Jr. is S. Samuel Arsht Professor of Corporate Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School in Philadelphia. He is the author of True Paradox: How Christianity Makes Sense ofOur Complex World (InterVarsity 2014), The New Financial Deal: Understanding the Dodd-Frank Act and Its (Unintended) Consequences (Wiley 2011), Icarus in the Boardroom (Oxford 2005), Debt?s Do-minion: A History of Bankruptcy Law in America (Princeto, 2001), and numerous articles on bankruptcy, corporate law, financial regulation, Christianity and law, and other topics. Prof. Skeel has also written commentaries for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Books & Culture, The Weekly Standard and other publications. He has received the Harvey Levin award three times for outstanding teaching as selected by a vote of the graduating class, the Robert A. Gorman award for excellence in upper-level course teaching, and the University?s Lindback Award for distinguished teaching. Prof. Skeel received his B.A. in 1983 from the University of North Carolina and his J.D. in 1987 from the University of Virginia.