Professor Edward Janger, Resident Scholar, Fall 2004

Prof. Edward Janger is the David M. Barse Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School in New York, which he joined in 1998 after teaching at the Washington University School of Law in St. Louis and the Ohio State University College of Law. Prof. Janger served as the ABI Robert M. Zinman Scholar-in-Residence in fall 2004, and he has served as the Anne Urowsky Visiting Professor at Yale Law School, the Bruce W. Nichols Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School and a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Prior to teaching, he practiced as an associate with the firm of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering in Washington, D.C., specializing in bankruptcy and litigation, and was a law clerk to Hon. Irving L. Goldberg of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Prof. Janger has published in the areas of bankruptcy law, commercial law and data privacy, and his recent scholarship has appeared in the Michigan Law Review, Texas Law Review, Columbia Journal of Transnational Law and Texas International Law Journal. He is a past-chair of the Association of American Law Schools' Section on Commercial and Consumer Law, and is a member of the American Law Institute. He also served as consultant to the Business Bankruptcy Subcommittee of the Federal Bankruptcy Rules Advisory Committee, and is a member of the board of directors of the Coalition for Debtor Education. Prof. Janger received his B.A. from Yale College and his J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School.