Lynn M. LoPucki
Lynn M. LoPucki
E-mail address: lopucki@law.ucla.edu
Lynn M. LoPucki is the Security Pacific Bank Professor of
Law at the UCLA Law School, and, each fall semester, the Bruce W.
Nichols Visiting Professor of Law at the Harvard Law School. LoPucki
teaches Secured Transactions and Empirical Analysis of Law at both
schools.
LoPucki has engaged in empirical research on large public
company bankruptcies for the past twenty-five years and has been quoted
in several hundred news articles on the topic in just the past five. ;
His Bankruptcy Research Database http://lopucki.law.ucla.edu
provides data for much, if not most, empirical work on the topic.
LoPucki’s book, Courting Failure: How Competition for Big
Cases Is Corrupting the Bankruptcy Courts (University of Michigan
Press 2005) shocked the bankruptcy world with empirical evidence
regarding the effects of forum shopping and court competition. ; The
debate over those allegations has dominated recent scholarship in the
field. LoPucki and his frequent coauthor, Joseph W. Doherty, are
currently working on another book, Controlling Professional Fees in
Corporate Bankruptcies, under contract with Oxford University Press.
LoPucki uses an empirically-based systems approach for
policy analysis. ; He has recently proposed public identities as the
solution to identify theft, court system transparency as the solution to
judicial bias, and an effective filing system as the solution to the
deceptive nature of secured credit.
LoPucki is co-author of two widely used casebooks: Secured
Credit: A Systems Approach ; (5th edition, with Elizabeth Warren,
2006) and Commercial Transactions: A Systems Approach (with
Warren, Keating, and Mann, ;4th edition, 2009). He also co-wrote ;a
leading practice manual: Strategies for Creditors in Bankruptcy
Proceedings (with Christopher R. Mirick, 5th edition, 2007) and a
popular series of bankruptcy procedure flow charts: Bankruptcy
Visuals. LoPucki’s Death of Liability thesis—propounded in a Yale
Law Journal article in 1996—is featured in casebooks in several
fields.
Education
B.A. University of Michigan, 1965
J.D. University of Michigan, 1967
LL.M. Harvard, 1970
