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Stephen J. Lubben

Harvey Washington Wiley Chair in Corporate Governance & Business Ethics

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Professor Stephen Lubben, Dodd-Frank’s Orderly Liquidation Authority, at Resolution Authority and Structural Reform Conference, NYU Stern School of Business.

Professor Stephen Lubben, invited discussant, GAO/National Academy of Sciences meeting on Treatment Of Financial Contracts During Bankruptcy, Washington, D.C.

Professor Stephen J. Lubben, panelist on Health of Nations: Distress, Recovery, and Revival, Wharton School.

Professor Stephen J. Lubben, Re-conceptualizing Lehman at the University of Texas.

Professor Stephen J. Lubben, represents the International Insolvency Institute at the Uncitral Insolvency Working Group meeting, New York.

Professor Stephen J. Lubben, appointed to the World Bank/ABI Working Group on Financial Contracts in Bankruptcy.

Professor Stephen J. Lubben, Institutional Investors Educational Foundation’s New York Bankruptcy Litigation Roundtable.

Prof. Stephen J. Lubben, Keynote Address (Resolution, Orderly and Otherwise), at American Bankruptcy Institute 8th Annual Corporate Restructuring Competition, The Wharton School.

Professor Stephen J. Lubben, Involuntary Creditors and Corporate Bankruptcy, European Law And Economics Annual Meeting, at University of Hamburg School of Business, Economics and Social Sciences.

Professor Stephen J. Lubben, Financial Institutions in Bankruptcy, 34 Seattle L. Rev. 1259 (2011) (solicited); Sales or Plans:  A Comparative Account of the “New” Corporate Reorganization, 56 McGill L.J. 591 (2011)(co-authored with stephanie Ben-Ishal); Chapter 11 in Context:  American and Dutch Business Bankruptcy, 85 Am. Bankr. L.J. 63 (2011) (co-authored with O. Couwenberg).

Professor Stephen J. Lubben, Dodd-Frank Orderly Liquidation Authority and Ending “Too Big to Fail,” before the U.S. House of Representatives Financial Services Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit, Washington D.C.

Stephen J. Lubben, Bankruptcy as Bailout, at Comparative Approaches to Systemic Risk and Resolution Symposium, Brooklyn Law School, Feb. 25th.

Professor Stephen Lubben, Examining Chapter 11 Cost, at Big-Case Bankruptcy Empirical Research Agenda, UCLA School of Law, Feb. 11th.

Professor Stephen Lubben, The Risks Of Fractured Resolution - Finance And Bankruptcy, at Adolf A. Berle, Jr. Center on Corporations, Law and Society Annual Symposium, Seattle University School of Law, Seattle, Washington.

Professors Stephen Lubben and Michael Simkovic at the World Bank Insolvency and Creditor/Debtor Regimes Task Force meeting.

Prof. Lubben presents "Bankruptcy, the Constitution, and Government Controlled Corporations," at The Constitution in the Financial Crisis Symposium of the Constitutional Law Center, Stanford Law School.

Professor Stephen Lubben, Sales or Plans: A Comparative Account of the "New" Corporate Reorganization, at The Canadian Law and Economics Association, University of Toronto.

Professor Stephen Lubben in CNNMoney.com/Fortune Magazine on Bankruptcy Costs and Fees as Lehman Bros. Expected to Hit $2 Billion

Professor Stephen Lubben published The Bankruptcy Code Without Safe Harbors, 84 Am. Bankr. L.J 123 (2010).

Professor Stephen Lubben, presenter, Sales or Plans: A Comparative Account of the "New" Corporate Reorganization, at American Law and Economics Association Annual Meeting in Princeton.

Professor Stephen Lubben published Accidental Convergence: Corporate Reorganization in Two Federal Systems, 26 Emory Bankr. Dev. J. 33(2009)

Professor Stephen Lubben published Chapter 11 and Systemic Risk, 82 Temp. L. Rev. 433 (2009)

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Stephen J. Lubben

Harvey Washington Wiley Chair in Corporate Governance & Business Ethics

Stephen J. Lubben, holder of the Harvey Washington Wiley Chair in Corporate Governance & Business Ethics at Seton Hall, is an internationally recognized expert in the field of corporate finance and governance, corporate restructuring, financial distress and debt.

He is the author of a forthcoming textbook, to be published by Wolters Kluwer, on corporate finance, and a contributing author to the new Bloomberg Law on Bankruptcy treatise. He is also the In Debt columnist for the New York Times' Dealbook page.

Professor Lubben grew up in west Los Angeles and attended the University of California, Irvine, where he majored in History and minored in Political Science. Following graduation from law school, Professor Lubben clerked for Justice John T. Broderick, Jr. of the New Hampshire Supreme Court. He then practiced in the New York and Los Angeles offices of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, where he represented parties in chapter 11 cases throughout the country.

Since joining Seton Hall, Professor Lubben has presented his papers at academic conferences around the world and frequently provides commentary on chapter 11 and related issues for national and international media outlets, including the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, the Financial Times, Reuters, the Associated Press, Bloomberg, and the BBC.  

He frequently advises government officials on potential legislative reforms, and has testified before Congress and the TARP Congressional Oversight Panel. He also is a regular contributor to Credit Slips, a blog started by a small group of bankruptcy experts.

Professor Lubben is a member of the New York and California bars. He is also a member of the American Finance Association, the American Law and Economics Association, the International Insolvency Institute, and the European Association of Law and Economics.

PUBLICATIONS

LAW REVIEW ARTICLES


Resolution, Orderly and Otherwise: B of A in OLA, U. Cin. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2012) (solicited)

Solving Creditor Problems in the Twilight Zone: Superfluous Law and Inadequate Private Solutions, 34 Intl Rev. L. & Econ. 61 (2013) (with Oscar Couwenberg)

What We "Know" About Chapter 11 Cost is Wrong, 17 Fordham J. of Corp. & Fin. L. 1 (2012)

Transaction Simplicity, 112 Colum. L. Rev. Sidebar 194 (2012) (solicited)

Involuntary Creditors and Corporate Bankruptcy, 45 U.B.C. L. Rev. 253 (2012) (co-authored with Stephanie Ben-Ishai)

Chapter 11 as Intrigue: A Review of LoPucki and Doherty's Professional Fees in Corporate Bankruptcies, 28 Banking and Fin. L. Rev. (Canada) 171 (2012) (solicited)

The Chapter 11 Attorneys, 86 Am. Bankr. L. J. 447 (2012)

CDS and the Resolution of Financial Distress, 24 J. Applied Corp. Fin. 129 (2012) (co-written with Rajesh P. Narayanan)

Sales or Plans:  A Comparative Account of the “New” Corporate Reorganization, 56 McGill L.J. 591 (2011) (Co-authored with Stephanie Ben-Ishai)

Chapter 11 in Context: American and Dutch Business Bankruptcy, 85 Am. Bankr. L.J. 63 (2011) (Co-authored with O. Couwenberg)

A Comparative Study of Bankruptcy as Bailout, 6 Brook. J. Corp., Fin. & Com. Law 1 (2011) (co-authored with Stephanie Ben-Ishai)

Financial Institutions in Bankruptcy, 34 Seattle L. Rev. 1259 (2011) (solicited)

The Chapter 11 Financial Advisors, 28 Emory Bankr. Dev. J. 1 (2011)

The Bankruptcy Code Without Safe Harbors, 84 Am. Bankr. L.J. 123 (2010)

The Types of Chapter 11 Cases, 84 Am. Bankr. L.J. 233 (2010)

Repeal the Safe Harbors, 18 A.B.I. L. Rev. 319 (2010)

No Big Deal: The GM and Chrysler Cases in Context, 83 Am. Bankr. L.J. 531 (2009)

Derivatives and Bankruptcy: The Flawed Case for Special Treatment, 12 U. Pa. J. Bus. L. 61 (2009)

Chapter 11 and Systemic Risk, 82 Temp. L. Rev. 433 (2009) (solicited)

Accidental Convergence: Corporate Reorganization in Two Federal Systems, 26 Emory Bankr. Dev. J. 33 (2009)

Corporate Reorganization & Professional Fees, 82 Amer. Bankr. L.J. 77 (2008)

Delaware's Irrelevance, 16 Am. Bankr. Inst. L. Rev. 267 (2008)

Business Liquidation, 81 Am. Bankr. L. J. 65 (2007)

Credit Derivatives & The Future of Chapter 11, 81 Am. Bankr. L.J. 405 (2007)

Choosing Corporate Bankruptcy Counsel, 14 Am. Bankr. Inst. L. Rev. 391 (2006)

Delaware's Duty of Care, 31 Del. J. Corp. L. 589 (2006) (co-written with Alana J. Darnell)

The "New and Improved" Chapter 11, 93 Ky. L.J. 839 (2005) (special, peer-reviewed AALS Section on Creditors' and Debtors' Rights issues)

Railroad Receiverships and Modern Bankruptcy Theory, 89 Cornell L. Rev. 1420 (2004)

Beyond True Sales - Securitization and Chapter 11, 1 N.Y.U. J.L. & Bus. 89 (2004)

Out of the Past: Railroads & Sovereign Debt Restructuring, 35 Geo. J. Int'l L. 845 (2004) (written by invitation for Georgetown symposium on sovereign debt restructuring)

OTHER JOURNAL ARTICLES


The Microeconomics of Chapter 11, Part 1, 4 Int'l. Corp. Rescue 31 (2007)

The Microeconomics of Chapter 11, Part 2, 4 Int'l. Corp. Rescue 87 (2007)

OTHER PUBLICATIONS


The Truth About Detroit's Bankruptcies, Forbes (July 2009) (Op-ed piece)

The Sale of the Century and Its Impact on Asset Securitization: Lehman Brothers, 27 Am. Bankr. Inst. Journal Vol. 10, page 1 (2009)

ABI Chapter 11 Professional Fee Study, (2007)

BOOKS AND BOOK CHAPTERS


Credit Derivatives and the Resolution Of Financial Distress, in THE CREDIT DERIVATIVES HANDBOOK, McGraw-Hill (2008) (Greg N. Gregoriou and Paul U. Ali eds.)

Financial Distress in Emerging Markets, in Emerging Markets: Performance, Analysis And Innovation (2009) (Greg N. Gregoriou ed. Chapman-Hall /Taylor and Francis)

WORKS IN PROGRESS


Chapter 11 "Failure"