Alexandria, Va. — Prof. Andrew B. Dawson of the University of Miami School of Law (Miami) will serve as the Robert M. Zinman ABI Resident Scholar for the spring 2017 semester. Prof. Dawson teaches contracts, commercial law, secured transactions, bankruptcy and advanced topics in bankruptcy. His research has focused on the intersection of federal bankruptcy and labor laws, both in the corporate and municipal bankruptcy context. In addition to his scholarship in this field, Prof. Dawson has served as the reporter for the Labor and Benefits Subcommittee of ABI’s Commission to Study the Reform of Chapter 11. He will be based in ABI's Alexandria, Va., office, assisting ABI with its educational programming and in its role as the authoritative source of bankruptcy information for Congress, the media and the public.

Prof. Dawson has also contributed to the study of cross-border insolvency under the UNCITRAL Model Law on Cross Border Insolvency. The U.S. adopted the Model Law in 2005, and Prof. Dawson conducted the first empirical study of this new chapter 15 of the Bankruptcy Code. In addition to his research in this field, he has also served on the advisory board of ABI’s Caribbean Insolvency Symposium and was inducted into the International Insolvency Institute’s NextGen Leadership Program in 2014.

Prof. Dawson joined the Miami Law faculty in 2011. Prior joining the faculty, he was a Kauffman Legal Fellow at Harvard Law School, and he clerked for Hon. Jane R. Roth of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and for Hon. Peter J. Walsh of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware.

Prof. Dawson received his B.A. from Williams College in 1999 and his J.D. in 2008 from Havard Law School, here he was a senior editor of the Harvard Negotiation Law Review and a recipient of the American Bankruptcy Institute Medal of Excellence and the Irving Oberman Memorial Award.

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