Consumer Bankruptcy and Credit in the Wake of the 2005 Act

Charles J. Tabb

University of Illinois College of Law
Alice Curtis Campbell Professor of Law
ctabb@law.uiuc.edu

Professor Tabb is the Alice Curtis Campbell Professor of Law at the University of Illinois College of Law. From 2003 to 2005 he served as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. Professor Tabb has published numerous articles as well as three books on bankruptcy law: The Law of Bankruptcy (Foundation 1997); Bankruptcy Anthology (Anderson 2002); and Bankruptcy Law: Principles, Policies and Practice (LexisNexis 2003) (with Professor Brubaker). Professor Tabb served on the Advisory Committee for the Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure and also served as a Commissioner to the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws. He has advised the Chinese government on the pending reform of their bankruptcy law. Professor Tabb is a member of the American Law Institute and a fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy

Ralph Brubaker

University of Illinois College of Law
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Professor of Law
rbrubake@law.uiuc.edu
Mildred Van Voorhis Jones Faculty Scholar
Ralph Brubaker is the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and the Mildred Van Voorhis Jones Faculty Scholar at the University of Illinois College of Law. Professor Brubaker has three degrees from the University of Illinois, including his J.D. summa cum laude and an M.B.A., and he received Bronze Tablet distinction and C.P.A. certification as an undergraduate. He clerked for Judge James K. Logan of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, and he practiced in the bankruptcy and corporate reorganization group with the law firm Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, in Cleveland, Ohio. Professor Brubaker was a member of the faculty at the Emory University School of Law in Atlanta, Georgia from 1995 until 2004, when he returned to his alma mater. Professor Brubaker is the Editor-in-Chief and a contributing author for Thomson/West’s Bankruptcy Law Letter, and he has written a bankruptcy casebook (with Charles Tabb), and numerous journal articles and essays. He serves as a member of the executive committee of the board of directors of the American Bankruptcy Institute and is on the advisory boards for the ABI Law Review and the St. John’s University LL.M. in Bankruptcy.

Natalie DeVooght

University of Illinois College of Law
Visiting Professor
ndevoogh@law.uiuc.edu

Professor DeVooght is a visiting professor at the University of
Illinois College of Law, specializing in bankruptcy. She graduated
summa cum laude from the University of Illinois College of Law,
where she was a Notes and Comments Editor of the University of
Illinois Law Review
, a member of the National Moot Court team and a member of the Order of the Coif. After graduation from law school, Professor DeVooght clerked for the Honorable Michael S. Kanne on the Federal Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Following her clerkship, Professor DeVooght entered private practice. She worked in the Washington DC and Chicago offices of Sidley Austin Brown and Wood LLP. Her practice focused primarily on bankruptcy and corporate reorganization.