Prof. Jack F. Williams

Prof. Jack F. Williams, CIRA, CTP, CDBV is a tenured professor at Georgia State University College of Law and the Middle East Studies Institute in Atlanta, and he serves as an adjunct professor at St. John?s University School of Law. In addition, he has been a visiting professor at Cardozo Law School, the University of Georgia, New York Law School, and St. John?s University. Prof. Williams?s experience and areas of practice and academic interest include bankruptcy and business reorganizations, commercial lending, capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, business valuations in dispute, forensic accounting, complex commercial damages models, corporate finance, energy and natural resources, fraud and anti-corruption, Islamic banking and finance, taxation, public finance, real estate, and law and statistics. He has served as an instructor to attorneys in the Office of Chief Counsel, Internal Revenue Service, as part of the New York University School of Law/IRS Continuing Professional Education Program; to attorneys in the U.S. Department of Justice; to attorneys and other professionals in the Office of the U.S. Trustee; to attorneys and enforcement personnel at the SEC and EPA; and to law enforcement at the FLETC. He has also testified before U.S House and Senate committees and subcommittees. Prof. Williams was awarded the Kroll Zolfo Cooper Randy Waits Award ? Gold Medal for the highest score on the national CIRA examination. He is a member of the board of advisors of the St. John?s University School of Law LL.M. Program in Bankruptcy and of the Board of Advisors of the American Bankruptcy Institute Law Review, and he serves as a co-chair of ABI?s Veteran?s Affairs Task Force. Prof. Williams is the Association of Insolvency and Restructuring Advisors Scholar in Residence. He also served as the inaugural Robert M. Zinman ABI Scholar in Residence in 2001 and returned to that post in 2008. In 2009, Prof. Williams was recognized by the ABI with its Annual Service Award (2009), which honors an ABI member whose contributions over the past year have been extraordinary. He is a Fellow in the American College of Bankruptcy and a Fellow in the Bankruptcy Policy Institute at St. John?s University School of Law, and he has been appointed an academic member of the Maritime Law Association of the United States. Prof. Williams has written more than 18 books and 200 articles and essays. He is a frequent lecturer and is regularly quoted on television, radio and in the print media, having appeared as a guest on ?Lou Dobbs? on CNN and FoxNews, ?Neil Cavuto? on FoxNews, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, NPR, BBC, Bloomberg, ?Dateline,? ?Weekend Today? and CNN, and has been quoted in newspapers, including the Washington Post, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Atlanta Journal Constitution, Chicago Tribune, Boston Globe, Dallas Morning News, and many regional and local papers. Jack presently serves on the board of the Department of Human Services for the State of Georgia. Prof. Williams received his B.A. in economics from the University of Oklahoma, his J.D. with high honors from the George Washington University National Law Center, and his Ph.D. in archaeology from the University of Leicester.