David Skeel
David A. Skeel Jr. is an American law professor specializing in corporate law. He is the S. Samuel Arsht Professor of Corporate Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, a position he has held since 2004.
Skeel joined the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1999. From 1990 to 1998, Skeel taught at Temple University School of Law, where he was an Associate Professor from 1993 to 1998 and an Assistant Professor from 1990 to 1993. From 1988 to 1990, he was an associate in the law firm Duane, Morris, and Heckscher, within the firm’s Reorganization and Finance Department. From 1987 to 1988, he clerked for the Honorable Walter K. Stapleton of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
Skeel received a B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law. [1]
In 2016, he was named to the PROMESA oversight board in charge of resolving the Puerto Rican government-debt crisis.[1]
Books by David Skeel
- 2014. True Paradox: How Christianity Makes Sense of Our Complex World. InterVarsity Press. Description & preview. Reviewed at:
• Barton Swaim (2014, Nov. 22) "How Christianity Explains Beauty and Suffering," Wall Street Journal.
• Robert T. Miller (2015, February). "Experience Explained," First Things.
• Todd Zywicki (2015, February 2), "Review of David Skeel, True Paradox: How Christianity Makes Sense of Our Complex World," Washington Post.
- 2011. The New Financial Deal: Understanding the Dodd-Frank Act and its (Unintended) Consequences. Description, button-scrollable preview link & PDF of ch. 1. Wiley. Reviewed at:
• Louis Massard (2012), "A Review of The New Financial Deal by David Skeel", 16 N.C. Banking Inst. 16(1), pp. 435-63.
- 2006. Icarus in the Boardroom: The Fundamental Flaws in Corporate America and Where They Came From. Oxford U. Press. Description.
- 2001. Debt’s Dominion: A History of Bankruptcy Law in America, Princeton University Press. Description & preview. Reviewed at:
• Janis Sara (2003), "Book Review: Debt's Dominion: A History of Bankruptcy Law in America, by David A. Skeel Jr," Osgoode Hall Law Journal, 41(4), pp. 734-740.
References
External links
- Penn Law page for David Skeel with link to Curriculum Vitae