Lynn M. LoPucki

Visiting Professor of Law

E-mail: llopucki@wulaw.wustl.edu
Phone: (314) 935-6469 
Office: Anheuser-Busch Hall, Room 578

Courses: (Fall 2007) Empirical Research in Commercial Law Seminar; Secured Transactions

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Education: B.A. University of Michigan, 1965; J.D. University of Michigan, 1967; LL.M. Harvard, 1970

Lynn LoPucki has been the Security Pacific Bank Professor of Law at the UCLA Law School since 1999. In the fall semester of 2006 he was also the Bruce W. Nichols Visiting Professor of Law at the Harvard Law School.

 LoPucki practiced law for eight years before he began teaching. His commercial law casebooks – coauthored with Harvard Law professor Elizabeth Warren, Washington University Law Dean Daniel Keating, and University of Texas Law professor Ronald Mann – are each among the most widely used in their respective fields. Both examine law from the strategic perspective of the practicing lawyer.

Professor LoPucki is a leading scholar in the commercial law and bankruptcy fields. His work – which in recent years has focused on the empirical realities of big-case bankruptcy – has been published in the Yale Law Journal, the Stanford Law Review, the University of Chicago Law Review, the Michigan Law Review, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, the University of Virginia Law Review, and elsewhere. LoPucki’s Bankruptcy Research Database – online at http://lopucki.law.ucla.edu – tracks more that 700 large, public company bankruptcies including such cases as Enron, Global Crossing, Delta Airlines, and U.S. Air. The BRD has provided the foundation for empirical studies by dozens of scholars at law schools and business schools throughout the world. LoPucki’s most recent book, Courting Failure: How Competition for Big Cases Is Corrupting the Bankruptcy Courts, was published by the University of Michigan Press in 2005. LoPucki was the William R. Orthwein Professor of Law at Washington University from 1993 to 1996 and is the husband of Washington University law professor Frances H. Foster.