Phone: 217-333-2877
Email: ctabb@law.uiuc.edu
B.A. Vanderbilt University
J.D. University of Virginia
Courses
Bankruptcy
Contracts
Commercial Law
Vita
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Professor Charles J. Tabb, the Alice Curtis Campbell Professor of Law, has taught at Illinois since 1984 and is considered one of the nation's leading bankruptcy scholars, specializing in bankruptcy, contracts, and commercial law. Professor Tabb served as Interim Dean of the College during the 2007-2008 academic year and was the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs from 2003-2005. Professor Tabb earned his bachelor's degree and graduated summa cum laude from Vanderbilt University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He earned his J.D. from the University of Virginia, serving as a member of the Virginia Law Review and Order of the Coif. After graduation, Tabb recorded the highest score of over 1,400 successful candidates on the Texas state bar examination. Before joining the Illinois faculty, he practiced bankruptcy and commercial law in Dallas, where his cases included the Braniff Airways and Continental Airlines Chapter 11 reorganizations. In his 23 years on the Illinois faculty, Professor Tabb has been recognized with a Best Professor award from the College, as well as a campus-wide Outstanding University Professor award. He has also served as a Visiting Professor at Texas and Colorado, a visiting scholar at Cambridge and Nottingham, and in 1998 was the Southeastern Bankruptcy Law Institute Distinguished Visiting Professor at Georgia State University. Professor Tabb has published three books and over two dozen articles on bankruptcy law. His most recent book is a casebook on bankruptcy-entitled, Bankruptcy Law: Principles, Policies & Practice (with Professor Ralph Brubaker; LexisNexis., 2006). His two previous books include a 1000-page treatise, The Law of Bankruptcy (Foundation Press, 1997), and Bankruptcy Anthology, an edited collection of scholarly works on bankruptcy law (Anderson Publishing Co., 2002). His article on "The Enron Bankruptcy" was published in the book, Enron: Corporate Fiascos and Legal Implications (Foundation Press). In 1993, he was appointed by Chief Justice William Rehnquist to the Advisory Committee on the Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure of the Judicial Conference of the United States. He was later appointed by former Illinois Governor Jim Edgar as a Commissioner for the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, and served from 1997 to 2001. In 2003, Professor Tabb traveled to Beijing, where he advised the National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China on the reform of the Chinese bankruptcy law, which went into effect this past June. He also joined a contingent of seven Illinois law faculty in December, 2005 who lectured at "The Role of Law in Economic Development - Implications for China in the World" conference at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China. Professor Tabb is a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy and is a member of the American Law Institute.
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