Prof. Rafael Pardo

Rafael Pardo is the Robert T. Thompson Professor of Law at Emory University School of Law in Atlanta. He specializes in bankruptcy and commercial law, and his scholarship has been published in numerous law journals, including the Alabama Law Review, Iowa Law Review, Florida Law Review, UCLA Law Review, Vanderbilt Law Review, Washington and Lee Law Review and the William and Mary Law Review. Prior to joining the Emory faculty, he was a professor of law and director of the Bankruptcy Client Representation Project at the University of Washington School of Law, where he was a recipient of the Pro Bono Faculty of the Year Award in 2012. Prof. Pardo is an elected member of the American Law Institute and has testified as a bankruptcy expert before both houses of Congress. In 2015, he re- ceived the Emory Williams Teaching Award, the highest university honor for teaching given by Emory University to a full-time faculty member in recognition of a record of excellence in teaching. Prof. Pardo received his J.D. from New York University School of Law, where he served as an executive editor of the New York University Law Review and was a recipient of the Judge John J. Galgay Fellowship in Bankruptcy and Reorganization Law.