Lynn M. LoPucki

Lynn M. LoPucki is the Security Pacific Bank Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law. LoPucki writes and comments extensively on bankruptcy issues in the U.S.A. LoPucki's Bankruptcy Research Database provides data for much, if not most, empirical work on the subject by other legal scholars. A version of the database--called the WebBRD--is publicly available at http://lopucki.law.ucla.edu/LoPucki asserted corruption on the part of Federal Bankruptcy judges by their competition to attract large company bankruptcy filings to their districts by offering favorable rulings for such companies. [cite book| title=Courting Failure: How Competition for Big Cases Is Corrupting the Bankruptcy Courts | work=University of Michigan, Lynn LoPucki | url=http://www.amazon.com/Courting-Failure-Competition-Corrupting-Bankruptcy/dp/0472114867| | accessyear=2005 ] LoPucki is currently a visiting professor at Harvard Law School. LoPucki also created a popular set of bankruptcy procedure charts called Bankruptcy Visuals. Web-based and print versions of the charts are available at http://www.bankruptcyvisuals.com.

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