Stephen J. Lubben

 Daniel J. Moore Professor of Law
SETON HALL LAW SCHOOL


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Biography & Scholarship
Biography
Publications
Curriculum Vitae
Courses & Syllabi
Advanced Topics in Corporate Finance and Reorganization
(fall 2004)
Business Associations
(fall 2006)
Bankruptcy & Creditors' Rights
(fall 2005)
Corporate Finance
(spring 2005)
Biography
 
Professor Stephen Lubben, the Daniel J. Moore Professor of Law at Seton Hall, specializes in corporate finance, particularly issues concerning corporate debt and financial distress. 

Professor Lubben was the principal investigator under a $345,000 grant from the American Bankruptcy Institute that funded the 2007 ABI Chapter 11 Fee Study, the leading empirical study of professional fees in chapter 11 bankruptcy cases. His recent research has focused on professionals in chapter 11 and the effect of credit default swaps on chapter 11 reorganizations. He is a frequent speaker at distressed investing and corporate reorganization conferences throughout the world. 

Professor Lubben joined Seton Hall in 2002 after several years in practice with Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP in New York and Los Angeles, where he represented parties in chapter 11 cases throughout the country. He received his bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Irvine; his J.D., magna cum laude, from Boston University School of Law, where he was an editor of the Boston University Law Review; and his LL.M from Harvard Law School, where he was a teaching fellow. Following graduation from Boston University, he clerked for now Chief Justice John T. Broderick, Jr. of the New Hampshire Supreme Court. 
 

Publications
 

Credit Derivatives and the Resolution Of Financial Distress, in Greg N. Gregoriou & Paul U. Ali, Credit Derivatives Handbook:  Global Perspectives, Innovations, and Market Drivers  (McGraw-Hill 2008) (forthcoming).

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

Delaware's Irrelevance,  14 Am. Bankr. Inst. L. Rev. -- (forthcoming 2008).

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

ABI Chapter 11 Professional Fee Study (2007).

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

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

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

Choosing Corporate Bankruptcy Counsel, 12 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 issue).

Out of the Past: Railroads & Sovereign Debt Restructuring, 35 Geo. J. Int’l L. 845 (2004).

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).

Some Realism About Reorganization: Explaining the Failure of Chapter 11 Theory, 106 Dick. L. Rev. 267 (2001).

The Direct Costs of Corporate Reorganization: An Empirical Examination of Professional Fees in Large Chapter 11 Cases, 74 Am Bankr. L.J. 509 (2000).

Chief Justice Traynor’s Contract Jurisprudence and the Free Law Dilemma: Nazism, the Judiciary, and California’s Contract Law, 7 S. Cal. Interdisc. L.J. 81 (1998).