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xviiiThe Contributors(the Leverhulme Lectures 2010, available at http://www.law.ox.ac.uk/published/leverhulme2010.php), Georgetown University LawCenter, National University of Singapore, and The National Assemblyof the Republic of Korea. He also has given numerous keynotespeeches, including at conferences of the European Central Bank,the Corporate Law Teachers Association of Australia, New Zealand,and Asia-Pacific, Moody’s Corporation, and the Asian SecuritisationForum. Additionally, he has testified before the U.S. Congress ontopics including systemic risk, securitization, credit rating agencies,and financial regulation and has advised several U.S. and foreign governmentalinstitutions on the financial crisis. Professor Schwarcz is aFellow of the American College of Bankruptcy, a Founding Memberof the International Insolvency Institute, a Fellow of the AmericanCollege of Commercial Finance Lawyers, and Business Law Advisorto the American Bar Association Section on Business Law.David SkeelUniversity of Pennsylvania Law SchoolDavid Skeel is the S. Samuel Arsht Professor of Corporate Law at theUniversity of Pennsylvania Law School. He is the author of The NewFinancial Deal: Understanding the Dodd-Frank Act and its (Unintended)Consequences (Wiley, 2011); Icarus in the Boardroom: TheFundamental Flaws in Corporate America and Where They CameFrom (Oxford University Press, 2005); Debt’s Dominion: A Historyof Bankruptcy Law in America (Princeton University Press, 2001);and numerous articles on bankruptcy, corporate law, Christianityand law, and other topics. Professor Skeel has also written commentariesfor the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Books & Culture,The Weekly Standard, and other publications.Richard SquireYale Law SchoolRichard Squire is currently the Florence Rogatz Visiting Professorof Law at Yale Law School. He is also an Associate Professor atFordham Law School, where he has taught since 2006. Before joiningacademia, he practiced at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz inNew York City. Professor Squire received a J.D. from Harvard LawSchool, an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, and a B.A. fromBowdoin College.