Todd J. Zywicki
Visiting Professor of Law - Fall 2007
297 Faculty Suite
Voice: 615-322-2758
Email: todd.zywicki@vanderbilt.edu
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Education
J.D. University of Virginia
M.A. Clemson University (economics)
A.B. Dartmouth College (Rufus Choate Scholar)
Research Interests
Bankruptcy, Contracts, Secured Transactions, Business Associations, Mergers and Acquisitions, Corporate Finance, Payment Systems and Negotiable Instruments, Commercial Law and Electronic Commerce
Biography
Todd Zywicki is visiting from George Mason University, where he is Professor of Law and Senior Fellow of the James Buchanan Center, Program on Politics, Philosophy, and Economics. An expert in consumer bankruptcy and consumer credit, Professor Zywicki has testified several times before Congress on issues relating to these areas. His scholarship and teaching focus in the areas of Bankruptcy, Contracts, Commercial Law, Business Associations, Law & Economics, and Public Choice and the Law. Professor Zywicki has also taught at Georgetown Law Center, Boston College Law School and Mississippi College School of Law and is a Fellow of the International Centre for Economic Research in Turin, Italy. He was recently appointed a member of the United States Department of Justice Study Group on Identifying Fraud, Abuse and Errors in the United States Bankruptcy System. From 2003-2004, he served as director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission. He is currently (with Ilya Somin) Co-Editor of the Supreme Court Economic Review, and he served as its editor from 2001-02. Before entering the academy, Professor Zywicki clerked for Judge Jerry E. Smith of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and worked as an associate at Alston & Bird in Atlanta, Georgia, where he practiced bankruptcy and commercial law.
Representative Publications
Books
Bankruptcy and Personal Responsibility: Bankruptcy Law and Policy in the Twenty-First Century (Yale University Press, forthcoming 2007)
Public Choice Concepts and Applications in Law (with Maxwell Stearns) (West Publishing, forthcoming 2007)
Articles
"Spontaneous Order and the Common Law: Gordon Tullock's Critique," __ Public Choice __ (forthcoming 2008)
"Institutional Review Boards as Academic Bureaucracies: An Economic and Experiential Analysis," 101 Northwestern Law Review __ (forthcoming 2007)
"Posner, Hayek and The Economic Analysis of Law" (with Anthony B. Sanders), __ Iowa Law Review __ (forthcoming 2008)
"Gordon Tullock's Critique of the Common Law," __ Supreme Court Economic Review __ (forthcoming 2007)
"Is Forum-Shopping Corrupting America's Bankruptcy Courts?," 94 Georgetown Law Journal 1141 (2006)
Institutions, Incentives, and Consumer Bankruptcy Reform, 62 Washington and Lee Law Review 1071 (2005)
"An Economic Analysis of the Consumer Bankruptcy Crisis," 99 Northwestern Law Review 1463 (2005)
