Prof. Charles Jordan Tabb

Prof. Charles J. Tabb is the Mildred Van Voorhis Jones Chair in Law at the University of Illinois College of Law in Champaign, Ill., and a former ABI resident scholar. He also is the Jack N. Pritzker Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at Northwestern University Law School and hosts ABI?s monthly ?Eye on Bankruptcy? online program. In his 35 years on the Illinois faculty, Prof. Tabb has been recog- nized with a Best Professor award from the College and as the 2L Professor of the Year, as well as with a campus-wide Outstanding University Professor award. In addition to his current stint at Northwestern, he has also served as a visiting professor at the universities of Texas, Colorado, FGV in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Tillburg University in the Netherlands, and Católica Global School of Law, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, in Lisbon, Portugal; as a visiting scholar at Cambridge University, Nottingham and Shang- hai; and as the Southeastern Bankruptcy Law Institute Distinguished Visiting Professor at Georgia State University. Prof. Tabb has published 12 books and scores of articles and book chapters on bankruptcy law. His books include a 1,500-page treatise, The Law of Bankruptcy (West Publishing, 4th ed. 2016); a casebook on bankruptcy, Bankruptcy Law: Principles, Policies & Practice (LexisNexis, 4th ed. 2015); A Debtor World: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Debt (ed.) (Oxford University Press 2012); and Bankruptcy Anthology, an edited collection of scholarly works on bankruptcy law (Anderson Publishing Co. 2002). He also is also one of the lead editors for the multi-volume treatise Bloomberg on Bankruptcy (2014) and was the editor for Best of the ABI: The Year in Business Bankruptcy (ABI 2014). In 1993, Prof. Tabb was appointed by Chief Justice William Rehnquist to the Advisory Committee on the Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure of the Judicial Conference of the United States. He was later appointed by former Illinois Governor Jim Edgar as a commissioner for the National Conference of Commis- sioners on Uniform State Laws, and served from 1997-2001. In 2002, Prof. Tabb traveled to Beijing, where he advised the National People?s Congress of the People?s Republic of China on the reform of the Chinese bankruptcy law, which went into effect in June 2007. He is a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy, was a member of the Board of Regents, and is a member of the American Law Institute. Prof. Tabb received his bachelor?s degree summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Vanderbilt University, and his J.D. from the University of Virginia, where he served on the Virginia Law Review and was elected to the Order of the Coif.