David Skeel, Jr.

David Skeel is the S. Samuel Arsht Professor of Corporate Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He is the author of The New Financial Deal: Understanding the Dodd-Frank Act and Its (Unintended) Consequences (2011), Icarus in the Boardroom (2005), and Debt's Dominion: A History of Bankruptcy Law in America (2001), as well as a number of articles, including several with Bill Stuntz, on bankruptcy, corporate law, Christianity and law, gambling and other topics. He also co-authored the...See more

David Skeel is the S. Samuel Arsht Professor of Corporate Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He is the author of The New Financial Deal: Understanding the Dodd-Frank Act and Its (Unintended) Consequences (2011), Icarus in the Boardroom (2005), and Debt's Dominion: A History of Bankruptcy Law in America (2001), as well as a number of articles, including several with Bill Stuntz, on bankruptcy, corporate law, Christianity and law, gambling and other topics. He also co-authored the blog 'Less than the Least' with Stuntz. See less