Rich, just for the heck of it, here's Prof Todd Zywicki's Bio and CV:
law.gmu.edu
PROFESSOR OF LAW TODD J. ZYWICKI teaches in the areas of bankruptcy and contracts. He came to the law school from the Mississippi College School of Law, where he had held a faculty position since 1996. Professor Zywicki was a Visiting Professor of Law at the Georgetown Law Center for the 2004-05 academic year. During the 2003-04 academic year, he served as the Director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission.
Professor Zywicki clerked for Judge Jerry E. Smith of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and worked as an associate at Alston & Bird in Atlanta, Georgia, where he practiced bankruptcy law. He received his J.D. from the University of Virginia (1993), where he was executive editor of the Virginia Tax Review and John M. Olin Scholar in Law and Economics.
Professor Zywicki received an M.A. in economics from Clemson University (1990) and an A.B. with high honors from Dartmouth College (1988). Professor Zywicki is the author of more than 30 articles in leading law reviews and economics journals. He has testified before Congress on bankruptcy reform issues and is a frequent commentator in the print and broadcast media.
And his CV says this:
PROFESSOR TODD J. ZYWICKI
PROFESSOR OF LAW
GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW
3301 N. FAIRFAX DR.
ARLINGTON, VA 22201
703-993-9484
tzywick2@gmu.edu
Web Page: mason.gmu.edu
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
BANKRUPTCY AND PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY: BANKRUPTCY LAW AND POLICY IN THE
TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY (Forthcoming 2007).
PUBLIC CHOICE CONCEPTS AND APPLICATIONS IN LAW (with Maxwell Stearns)
(Forthcoming 2006).
Editor, The Rule of Law, Freedom, and Prosperity, 10 SUPREME COURT ECONOMIC REVIEW
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. 278 pp. ISBN: 0-226-99962-9).
• Reviewed by Professor William A. Fischel, 14(6) LAW AND POLITICS BOOK REV. 493-97
(June 2004).
ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS
Institutional Review Boards and Academic Bureaucracies, __NORTHWESTERN L. REV. __
(Forthcoming 2006).
Is Forum-Shopping Corrupting America’s Bankruptcy Courts? 94 GEORGETOWN L. J. 1141
(2006) (Review essay of Lynn M. LoPucki, Courting Failure: How Competition for Big Cases is
Corrupting the Bankruptcy Courts).
Institutions, Incentives, and Consumer Bankruptcy Reform, 62 WASHINGTON & LEE L. REV.
1071 (2005).
An Economic Analysis of the Consumer Bankruptcy Crisis, 99 NORTHWESTERN L. REV. 1463
(2005).
Wine, Commerce, and the Constitution (with Asheesh Agarwal), 1 NYU J. LAW & LIBERTY 609
(2005).
The Original Meaning of the 21st Amendment (with Asheesh Agarwal), 8 GREEN BAG 2d 135
(2005).
Wine Wars: Uncorking E-Commerce? (with Asheesh Agarwal and Jerry Ellig, 27(4)
REGULATION 10 (Winter 2004-2005).
Obesity and Advertising Policy (with Debra Holt and Maureen Ohlhausen), 12 GEORGE MASON
L. REV. 979 (2004) (Symposium on Obesity, Health Claims, and Advertising).
The Theory and Practice of Competition Advocacy at the FTC (with James Cooper and Paul
Pautler), 72 ANTITRUST L. J. 1091 (2005) (Symposium on 90th Anniversary of FTC).
The FTC and State Action: Evolving Views on the Proper Role of Government (with John T.
Delacourt), 72 ANTITRUST L.J. 1075(2005) (Symposium on 90th Anniversary of FTC).
The Bankruptcy Clause, in THE HERITAGE GUIDE TO THE CONSTITUTION 112 (2005).
The Coinage Clause, in THE HERITAGE GUIDE TO THE CONSTITUTION 114 (2005).
Senate Vacancies, in THE HERITAGE GUIDE TO THE CONSTITUTION 415 (2005).
Reconciling Group Selection and Methodological Individualism, 7 ADVANCES IN
AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS 267 (2004).
The Past, Present, and Future of Bankruptcy Law in America, 101 MICHIGAN L. REV.
2016 (2003).
The Rise and Fall of Efficiency in the Common Law: A Supply-Side Analysis, 97
NORTHWESTERN L. REV. 1551 (2003).
The Rule of Law, Freedom, and Prosperity, 10 SUPREME COURT ECONOMIC REVIEW 1 (2003),
reprinted and translated El Estado De Derecho, La Libertad y La Prosperidad, 4(2) APUNTES
DE ECONOMIA Y POLITICA: ANALISIS ECONOMICO DE LAS DECISIONES PUBLICAS 2 (2005).
Baptists? The Political Economy of Environmental Interest Groups, 53 CASE WESTERN
RESERVE LAW REVIEW 315 (2002) (symposium on BJORN LOMBORG, THE SKEPTICAL
ENVIRONMENTALIST: MEASURING THE REAL STATE OF THE WORLD (2001)).
Competition Policy and Regulatory Reforms: Means and Ends, in HOW SHOULD COMPETITION
POLICY TRANSFORM ITSELF? DESIGNING THE NEW COMPETITION POLICY (2003).
Corporate Law Practice, in THE OXFORD COMPANION TO AMERICAN LAW (Kermit Hall
ed.) (2002).
Bankruptcy Law As Social Legislation, 5 TEX. REV. L. & POLITICS 393 (2001).
The Law of Presidential Transitions and the 2000 Election, 2001 BYU L. REV. 1573
(2001).
Evolutionary Psychology and the Social Sciences, 13 Humane Studies Review, Issue 1
(Fall 2000) (On-Line Journal available at
humanestudiesreview.org
With Apologies to Screwtape: A Response to Professor Alexander, 9 J. BANKR. L. &
PRACTICE 613 (2000).
Book Review Essay, BRUCE G. CARRUTHERS & TERENCE C. HALLIDAY, RESCUING
BUSINESS: THE MAKING OF CORPORATE BANKRUPTCY LAW IN ENGLAND AND THE UNITED
STATES, 16 BANKR. DEV. J. 361 (2000).
The Economics of Credit Cards 3 CHAPMAN L. REV. 79 (2000) (Selected to participate in
Chapman Law School “Rising Stars in Bankruptcy” symposium).
Talk is Cheap: The Existence Value Fallacy (with Donald J. Boudreaux and Roger E.
Meiners), 29 ENVIRONMENTAL LAW 765 (1999).
Was Hayek Right about Group Selection After All? 13 REV. OF AUSTRIAN ECON. 81
(2000).
Industry and Environmental Lobbyists: Enemies or Allies? in THE COMMON LAW AND
THE ENVIRONMENT: RETHINKING THE STATUTORY BASIS FOR MODERN ENVIRONMENTAL
LAW 185 (Roger E. Meiners and Andrew P. Morris eds. 2000).
Finding the Constitution: An Economic Analysis of Tradition’s Role in Constitutional
Decision-Making (with A.C. Pritchard) 77 N. C. L. REV. 409 (1999).
Constitutions and Spontaneous Orders: A Response to McGinnis’s “In Praise of
Decentralized Traditions and their Preconditions” (with A.C. Pritchard), 77 N. C. L.
REV. 537 (1999).
Environmental Externalities and Political Externalities: The Political Economy of
Environmental Regulation and Reform, 73 TULANE L. REV. 845 (1999).
Rewrite the Bankruptcy Code, Not the Scriptures: Protecting a Debtor’s Right to Tithe in
Bankruptcy, 1998 WISCONSIN L. REV. 1223 (1998).
It’s Time for Means Testing (with Judge Edith H. Jones), 1999 BYU L. REV. 177 (1999).
The Nature of the State and the State of Nature: A Comment on Grady and McGuire’s
“The Nature of Constitutions,” 1 J. BIOECONOMICS 241 (1999) (The State and the Ethnic
Group: The Bioeconomics of Economic Organizations).
Mend It, Don’t End It: The Case for Retaining the Disinterestedness Requirement for
Debtor in Possession’s Counsel, 18 MISS. COL L. REV. 291 (1998) (Symposium on
Bankruptcy Law).
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