Daniel L. Keating
Vice Dean and Tyrrell Williams Professor of Law
Office: Anheuser-Busch Hall, Room 402
Phone: (314) 935-6481
Assistant: Shelly Henderson-Ford - (314) 935-8598
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Courses Taught
Bankruptcy
Commercial Paper
Reorganization Seminar
UCC Article 2
Education
B.A., 1983, Monmouth College
J.D., 1986, University of Chicago
Profile
Daniel Keating serves as Vice Dean, where his responsibilities include oversight of academic matters at the law school, including the curriculum, tenure process and mentoring of new faculty.
Daniel Keating is the author of two case books on commercial law, "Sales: A Systems Approach" (3rd ed. Aspen 2006) and "Commercial Transactions: A Systems Approach" (with LoPucki, Warren & Mann; 3rd ed. Aspen 2006), as well as a treatise on the employment law implications of bankruptcy, Bankruptcy and Employment Law (Little Brown 1995). He has been the chair of the Association of American Law Schools Section on Creditors' and Debtors' Rights, and has also chaired the planning committees for the AALS New Law Teachers Workshop, the AALS Workshop on Bankruptcy, and the AALS Commercial Law Workshop. Daniel Keating is an elected member of the American Law Institute, and a fellow for the American College of Bankruptcy. Daniel Keating's knowledge of bankruptcy is informed by his firsthand commercial experience as an attorney for The First National Bank of Chicago. He has served twice as Interim Dean of the Washington University School of Law
His recent writings include "Harsh Realities and Silver Linings for Retirees," 15 American Bankruptcy Institute Law Review 437 (2007); "Why the Bankruptcy Reform Act Left Labor Legacy Costs Alone," 71 Missouri Law Review 985 (2006); "The Human Side of Commercial Law," 6 Washington University Journal of Law and Policy 213 (2001); "Exploring the Battle of the Forms in Action," 98 Michigan Law Review 2678 (2000); "Measuring Sales Law Against Sales Practice: A Reality Check," 17 Journal of Law and Commerce 99 (1997); "Ten Myths about Law School Grading," 76 Washington University Law Quarterly 171 (1998); and "Bankruptcy, Tithing, and the Pocket-Picking Paradigm of Free Exercise," 1996 University of Illinois Law Review 1041.