Lawrence Ponoroff is the current dean

Dean (education)

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 of the James E. Rogers College of Law

James E. Rogers College of Law

James E. Rogers College of Law is the law school at the University of Arizona located in Tucson, Arizona and was the first law school founded in the State of Arizona, opening its doors in 1915. Formerly known as University of Arizona College of Law, it was renamed in 1999 in honor of noted...

 at the University of Arizona

University of Arizona

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. He was previously the 21st dean of Tulane Law School from 2001–2009, taking the reins from Edward F. Sherman

Edward F. Sherman

Edward F. Sherman served as the 20th dean and is currently the W.R. Irby Chair in Law at the Tulane University Law School. He teaches Civil Procedure and Alternative Dispute Resolution. He was previously the Professor of Law at Tulane...

 after having taught at Tulane Law for six years. Prior to joining Tulane he practiced law for eight years (including two as a partner) and taught at several other institutions, including the University of Michigan Law School

University of Michigan Law School

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. He is a leading expert on bankruptcy

Bankruptcy

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, and holds several national appointments to bankruptcy law committees, including the Advisory Committee on Bankruptcy Rules to the Judicial Conference of the United States. Among U.S. law students he is known for creating the Making and Doing Deals and Core Concepts of Commercial Law casebooks.

In April 2009, it was announced that Ponoroff would be taking over for Toni Massaro as Dean of the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law in Tucson, Arizona

Tucson, Arizona

Tucson is a city in and the county seat of Pima County, Arizona, United States. The city is located 118 miles southeast of Phoenix and 60 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border. The 2010 United States Census puts the city's population at 520,116 with a metropolitan area population at 1,020,200...

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Teaching awards

• Teaching award at the Tulane University Law School, 1997.
• Teaching award at the University of Michigan, 1997.

Publications

Ponoroff has authored numerous articles in bankruptcy journals and at law reviews at Tulane, NYU, Northwestern, the University of Michigan, and other institutions. He has also written several notable casebooks used by U.S. law students. Some of his more popular publications are listed below.

Books

• Making and Doing Deals: Contracts in Context, (with Epstein and Markell), with Teacher's Manual, LexisNexis (2002) (Second edition 2006).
• Core Concepts of Commercial Law: Past, Present & Future, (with Dolan and Markell), with Teacher's Manual, Thompson/West (2004).
• Supplement to Basic Concepts in Commercial Law, with Revised Teacher's Manual, Thompson/West (2000).
• Basic Concepts in Commercial Law: Cases and Materials, (with Dolan), with Teacher's Manual, Thompson/West (1998).
• Commercial Bankruptcy Litigation (with Snyder), Thompson/West originally Clark Boardman & Co.) (1989 and supps.).

Articles

• Principles of Preclusion and Estoppel in Bankruptcy Cases, (co-authored), 79 AMERICAN BANKRUPTCY LAW JOURNAL 839 (2006).
• The Immovable Object Versus the Irresistible Force: Rethinking the Relationship Between Secured Credit and Bankruptcy Policy, (co-authored), 95 U. MICH. L. REV. 2234 (1997).
• Exemption Limitations: A Tale of Two Solutions, 71 AM. BANKR. L.J. 221 (1997).
• Vicarious Thrills: The Case for Application of Agency Rules in Bankruptcy Dischargeability Litigation, 70 TUL. L. REV. 2515 (1996).
• Construction Claims in Bankruptcy: Making the Best of a Bad Situation, 11 BANKR. DEV. J. 343; reprinted in THE LAW OF DISTRESSED REAL ESTATE (West Group 2001) (1995).
• Debtors Who Convert Their Assets on the Eve of Bankruptcy: Villains or Victims of the Fresh Start, (co-authored), 70 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 235 (1995).
• Now You See It, Now You Don't: An Unceremonius Encore for Two-Transfer Thinking in the Analysis of Indirect Preferences, 69 AM. BANKR. L.J. 203 (1995).
• The Implied Good Faith Filing Requirement: Sentinel of an Evolving Bankruptcy Policy, (co-authored), 85 NW. U. L. REV.919 (1991), reprinted in Charles Tabb, BANKRUPTCY ANTHOLOGY (Anderson Publications 2001).

External links

• Faculty profile at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law
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