The Honorable Bruce A. Markell | William S. Boyd School of Law at UNLV

		The Honorable Bruce A. Markell
		U.S. Bankruptcy Judge, District of Nevada
		Senior Fellow in Bankruptcy and Commercial Law

		Email: bruce.markell@unlv.edu

		Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

	Education: B.A., Pitzer College, 1977 J.D., University of California, Davis School of Law, 1980

	Bruce A. Markell is a United States Bankruptcy Judge based in Las Vegas. Judge Markell is a 1977 graduate of Pitzer College, and a 1980 graduate of the King Hall School of Law, University of California at Davis, where he was first in his class and editor-in-chief of the law review. Following graduation, he clerked for then-judge Anthony M. Kennedy when Justice Kennedy was a member of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Judge Markell practiced law in Los Angeles for 10 years, leaving a partnership with Sidley & Austin to join the law faculty at Indiana University School of Law – Bloomington. Before joining the Boyd School of Law faculty in 1999, he was the Bruce W. Nichols Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and the Southeastern Bankruptcy Law Institute Visiting Professor of Law at Georgia State University. In 2004, he was appointed to the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Nevada.

	Areas of Expertise: Bankruptcy Contracts

	Selected Publications: BOOKS Bankruptcy: 21^st Century Debtor-Creditor Law (Including BAPCPA) (2d ed. 2006) (with David G. Epstein, Steve Nickles & Elizabeth Perris). Making And Doing Deals: Contract And Related Law (2002 & 2d ed. 2006) (with David G. Epstein & Lawrence Ponoroff). BOOK CHAPTERS Overview of Bankruptcy, in 1 Collier On Bankruptcy (Alan N. Resnick & Henry J. Sommers eds., 15th ed. rev. 2006). Property of the Estate, in 7 Collier On Bankruptcy (Alan N. Resnick & Henry J. Sommers eds., 15th ed. rev. 2005). Bankruptcy Crimes, in 1 Collier On Bankruptcy (Alan N. Resnick & Henry J. Sommers eds., 15th ed. rev. 2002). LAW REVIEW AND OTHER ARTICLES The Sub Rosa Subchapter: Individual Debtors in Chapter 11 After BAPCPA, 2007 U. Ill. L. Rev. 67. SSRN Lexis Westlaw Hein Bewitched by Language: Wittgenstein and the Practice of Law, 32 Pepp. L. Rev. 801 (2005). Lexis Westlaw Hein Alive at 25? A Short Review of the Supreme Court’s Bankruptcy Jurisprudence, 1979-2004, 78 Am. Bankr. L.J. 373 (2004) (with Lee Dembart). Lexis Westlaw Hein --> More Publications (pdf)

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