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Lynn LoPucki

Lynn M. LoPucki

Security Pacific Bank Distinguished Professor of Law
B.A. University of Michigan, 1965
J.D. University of Michigan, 1967
LL.M. Harvard, 1970
UCLA Faculty Since 1999
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Books

The Readable Delaware General Corporation Law, 2017-2018. Available through Amazon and SSRN.
The Business Associations Supplement, 2016 for use with Palmiter & Partnoy, Corporations, Second Edition. Note: Permission to reproduce these materials for use in teaching (with appropriate credit) is hereby granted. Hard copy is available through Amazon and SSRN.
Secured Credit: A Systems Approach (with Elizabeth Warren and Robert M. Lawless). 8th ed. Aspen Publishing (2016). Prior edition: 7th, 2012. With Teacher's Manual.
The Readable Delaware General Corporation Law, 2016-2017. Available through Amazon and SSRN.
Strategies for Creditors in Bankruptcy Proceedings (with Christopher Mirick). 6th ed. Aspen Publishing (2015). With annual supplements.
The Business Associations Supplement (2015). For use with Palmiter & Partnoy, Corporations, Second Edition. Permission to reproduce these materials for use in teaching (with appropriate credit) is hereby granted. Hard copy is available through Amazon and SSRN.
The Readable Delaware General Corporation Law, 2015-2016.  Available through Amazon and SSRN.
Commercial Transactions: A Systems Approach (with Elizabeth Warren, Daniel L. Keating, and Ronald J. Mann). 5th ed. Aspen Publishers (2012). Prior editions: 4th, 2009; 3rd, 2006; 2nd, 2003; 1st, 1998.  Supplement: 2000.
Controlling Professional Fees in Corporate Bankruptcies: Data, Analysis, and Evaluation (with Joseph W. Doherty). Oxford University Press (2011).
Courting Failure: How Competition for Big Cases Is Corrupting the Bankruptcy Courts. Univ. of Michigan Press (2006). Paperback: 2006.
The Debtor Creditor Game. West Publishing (1984). A large scale practice simulation which has been used in teaching bankruptcy at about 40 law schools.  With Player's Manual and Teacher's Manual, and computer program published by the Center for Computer Assisted Legal Instruction (CCALI).

Articles and Chapters

Delaware's Fall: The Arbitration Bylaws Scenario, in Delaware’s Dominance in Corporate Law (edited by Stephen M. Bainbridge, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2018). Full Text
Algorithmic Entities, 95 Washington University Law Review (forthcoming). Full Text
Corporate Charter Competition, 102 Minnesota Law Review (forthcoming). Full Text
Disciplinary Legal Empiricism, 76(2) Maryland Law Review 449 (2017). Full Text
Dawn of the Discipline-based Law Faculty, 65 Journal of Legal Education 506 (2016). Full Text
Changes in Chapter 11 Success Levels Since 1980, 87 Temple Law Review 989 (2015).
Disciplining Legal Scholarship, 90 Tulane Law Review 1 (2015). Full Text
Bankruptcy Survival (with Joseph W. Doherty), 62 UCLA Law Review 970 (2015). Full Text
House Swaps: A Strategic Bankruptcy Solution to the Foreclosure Crisis, 112 Michigan Law Rreview 689 (2013). Full Text
Optimizing English and American Security Interests (with Arvin I. Abraham and Bernd P. Delahaye), 88 Notre Dame Law Review 1785 (2013). Full Text
The Readable Delaware General Corporation, UCLA School of Law Working Paper Series, Public Law & Legal Theory No. 13-20 (2013).

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The Future of Court System Transparency, in Confidentiality, Transparency, and the U.S. Civil Justice System (edited by Joseph W. Doherty, Robert T. Reville and Laura Zakaras, Oxford University Press, 2012).
Routine Illegality Redux (with Joseph W. Doherty), 85 American Bankruptcy Law Journal 35-61 (2011).
Book Review, Consumer Credit, Debt and Bankruptcy: Comparative and International Perspectives, 58 American Journal of Comparative Law 489-94 (2010).
Court System Transparency, 94 Iowa Law Review 481 (2009). Full Text
Routine Illegality in Bankruptcy Court, Big-Case Fee Practices (with Joseph W. Doherty), 83 American Bankruptcy Law Journal 423-480 (2009). Full Text
Professional Overcharging in Large Bankruptcy Reorganization Cases (with Joseph W. Doherty), 5 Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 983 (2008). Full Text
Rise of the Financial Advisors: An Empirical Study of the Division of Professional Fees in Large Bankruptcies (with Joseph W. Doherty), 82 American Bankruptcy Law Journal 141-74 (2008).
Bankruptcy Verite (with Joseph W. Doherty), 106 Michigan Law Review 721 (2008). Full Text
Bankruptcy Fire Sales (with Joseph W. Doherty), 106(1) Michigan Law Review (2007). Full Text
The Spearing Tool Filing System Disaster, 68 Ohio State Law Journal 281 (2007).
Delaware Bankruptcy: Failure in Ascendancy (with Joseph W. Doherty), 73 University of Chicago Law Review 1387-1419 (2006). Full Text
Where Do You Get Off? A Reply to Courting Failure's Critique, 54 Buffalo Law Review 511-48 (2006).
Universalism Unravels, 79 American Bankruptcy Law Journal 143 (2005). Full Text
Global and Out of Control, 79 American Bankruptcy Law Journal 79 (2005). Full Text
A Team Production Theory of Banruptcy Reorganization, 57 Vanderbilt Law Review 741 (2004).
The Determinants of Professional Fees in Large Bankruptcy Reorganization Cases (with Joseph W. Doherty), Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 111-42 (2004). Full Text
The Nature of the Bankrupt Firm: A Reply to Baird and Rasmussen's The End of Bankruptcy, 56 Stanford Law Review 645-71 (2003). Full Text
Did Privacy Cause Identity Theft?, 54 Hastings Law Journal 1277-97 (2003). Full Text
The Myth of the Residual Owner: An Empirical Study, UCLA School of Law Working Paper Series, Law & Economics Paper No. 3-11 (2003). Full Text
A Team Production Theory of Bankruptcy Reorganization, UCLA School of Law Working Paper Series, Law & Economics (April 23, 2003). Full Text
Why Are Delaware and New York Bankruptcy Reorganizations Failing? (with Joseph W. Doherty), Vanderbilt Law Review 1935-85 (2002). Full Text
The Politics of Research Access to Federal Court Data, 81 Texas Law Review 2161-71 (2002). Full Text
Toward a Trademark-Based Liability System, 49 UCLA Law Review 1099-1137 (2002). Full Text
Human Identification Theory and the Identity Theft Problem, 80 Texas Law Review 89-134 (2001). Full Text
Can the Market Evaluate Legal Regimes? A Response to Professors Rasmussen, Thomas and Skeel, 54 Vanderbilt Law Review 331-56 (2001).
The Failure of Public Company Bankruptcies in Delaware and New York: Empirical Evidence of a "Race to the Bottom" (with Sara D. Kalin), 54 Vanderbilt Law Review 231-82 (2001). Full Text
The Case for Cooperative Territoriality in International Bankruptcy, 98 Michigan Law Review 2216-51 (2000). Full Text
A Theory of Legal Strategy (with Walter O. Weyrauch), 49 Duke Law Journal 1405-86 (2000). Full Text
The Irrefutable Logic of Judgment Proofing: A Reply to Stephen Schwarcz, 52 Stanford Law Review 55-71 (1999).
Contract Bankruptcy: A Reply to Alan Schwartz, 109 Yale Law Journal 317-42 (1999). Full Text
Bankruptcy Contracting Revised: A Reply to Alan Schwartz's New Model, 109 Yale Law Journal 365-79 (1999).
Twerski & Cohen's Second Revolution: A Systems/Strategic Perspective, 94 Northwestern Law Review 55-75 (1999). Full Text
Commentary on Financial Privacy (response to article by Peter P. Swire), 7 Washington University Law Quarterly 513-17 (1999).  F. Hodge O'Neal Corporate and Securities Law Symposium: The Modernization of Financial Services Legislation.
Shopping for Judges: An Empirical Analysis of Venue Choice in the Bankruptcy Reorganization of Large, Publicly Held Companies (with Theodore Eisenberg), 84 Cornell Law Review 967-1003 (1999). Full Text
Cooperation in International Bankruptcy: A Post-Universalist Approach, 84 Cornell Law Review 696-762 (1999). Full Text
The Essential Structure of Judgment Proofing, 51 Stanford Law Review 147-60 (1998). Full Text
Virtual Judgment Proofing: A Rejoinder, 107 Yale Law Journal 1413-34 (1998). Full Text
Should the Secured Credit Carve-Out Be Effective Only in Bankruptcy? A Systems/Strategic Analysis, 82 Cornell Law Review 1483-1510 (1997).
Common Sense Consumer Bankruptcy, 71 American Bankruptcy Law Journal 461-82 (1997).
The Systems Approach to Law, 82 Cornell Law Review 479 (1997).
The Death of Liability, 106 Yale Law Journal 1-92 (1996). Full Text
Legal Culture, Legal Strategy, and the Law in Lawyer's Heads, 30 Northwestern University Law Review 1498-1556 (1996).
Why the Debtor's State of Incorporation Should Be the Proper Place for Article 9 Filing: A Systems Analysis, 79 Minnesota Law Review 577-661 (1995).
Chapter 11: An Agenda for Basic Reform, 69 American Bankruptcy Law Journal 573 (1995).
The Unsecured Creditors' Bargain, 80 Virginia Law Review 1887-965 (1994).
Reorganization Realities, Methodological Realities, and the Paradigm Dominance Game, 72 Washington University Law Quarterly 1307-17 (1994).
Compensating Unsecured Creditors for Extraordinary Reorganization Risks (with William C. Whitford), 72 Washington University Law Quarterly 1133-51 (1994).
A Systems Approach to Comparison of U.S. and Canadian Reorganization of Financially Distressed Companies (with George Triantis), 35 Harvard International Law Journal 267-343 (1994).
Patterns in the Bankruptcy Reorganization of Large, Publicly Held Companies (with William C. Whitford), 78 Cornell Law Review 597-618 (1993).
The Trouble with Chapter 11, 1993 Wisconsin Law Review 729-60 (1993).
Comment: Stakeholder Interests and Bankruptcy, 43 University of Toronto Law Journal 711-15 (1993).
Corporate Governance in the Bankruptcy Reorganization of Large, Publicly Held Companies 669-800 (1993).
Strange Visions in a Strange World, A Reply to Professors Bradley and Rosenzweig, 91 Michigan Law Review 79-110 (1992).
Computerization of the Article 9 Filing System: Thoughts on Building the Electronic Highway, 55 Law & Contemporary Problems 5-37 (1992). Symposium issue.
Preemptive Cram Down (with William C. Whitford), 65 American Bankruptcy Law Journal 625-47 (1991).
Venue Choice and Forum Shopping in the Bankruptcy Reorganization of Large, Publicly Held Companies (with William C. Whitford), 1991 University of Wisconsin Law Review 11-63 (1991).
The Demographics of Bankruptcy Practice, 63 American Bankruptcy Law Journal 289-319 (1989).
Book Review, Bringing Realism to the Classroom, 1988 Wisconsin Law Review 641-657 (1988). Reviewing The Law of Debtors and Creditors, by Elizabeth Warren and Jay Lawrence Westbrook.
The Debtor in Full Control B Systems Failure Under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code?, 57 American Bankruptcy Law Journal 99-126 (1983). First installment; 57 American Bankruptcy Law Journal 247-73 (1983) Second installment.
A General Theory of the Dynamics of the State Remedies/Bankruptcy System, 1982 Wisconsin Law Review 311-72 (1982).
"Encouraging" Repayment Under Chapter 13 of the Bankruptcy Code, 18 Harvard Journal on Legislation 347 (1981).

Other

The Practical Advantage from Empirical Research, 34 American Bankruptcy Institute Journal 32 (Feb. 2015).
The Bankruptcy Success Modeling Project: A Participant's Guide, ABI Journal 32 (August 2012). Full Text
The Bankruptcy-Success Modeling Project, JCR (July-August 2011). Full Text
Walter O. Weyrauch, The Observer, 60 Florida Law Review vi-x (2008).
Let Bankruptcy Judges Step In, Atlanta Journal-Constitution (March 6, 2008). Op-ed in favor of legislation that would have permitted bankruptcy judges to modify home mortgages.)
The Delaware Court Wins!, National Law Journal (February 11, 2008). (Op-ed reporting Delaware's victory in the competition for big bankruptcy cases.)
Courting the Big Bankrupts, Legal Times (July 18, 2005). (Op-ed responding to Senator Joseph Biden's attack on my research)
Corruption is the Right Word, Bankruptcy Court Decisions (July 19, 2005). (Op-ed on my use of the word Acorruption@ as applied to the United States Bankruptcy Courts.)
Bankruptcy Bingo, Forbes (July 4, 2005). (Opinion column on the corruption of the bankruptcy courts by competition)
Corporate Perk: Repairing a bankrupt system, Houston Chronicle (February 26, 2005). (Op-ed on bankruptcy forum shopping.)
Court shopping bankrupts U.S. system, San Francisco Chronicle at C3 (February 20, 2005). (Op-ed on the Yukos bankruptcy filing)
End costly game-playing in bankruptcy courts, Houston Chronicle at 23A (September 17, 2002). (Op-ed on bankruptcy court competition.)
Better Way to Stop a Thief, Los Angeles Times Pt. 2, at 13 (August 28, 2001). (Op-ed on identity theft.)
Some Settlement, Washington Post at A15 (January 20, 1998). (Op-ed on the tobacco settlement.)
No Credit Where Credit Was Due, New York Times (September 20, 1997). (Op-ed on consumer credit reporting.)