David Skeel
S. Samuel Arsht Professor of Corporate Law at the University of Pennsylvania
David Skeel is the S. Samuel Arsht Professor of Corporate Law at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Icarus in the Boardroom (Oxford, 2005) and Debt’s Dominion: A History of Bankruptcy Law in America (Princeton, 2001), as well as numerous articles and other publications. He has been interviewed on The News Hour, Nightline, Chris Matthews’ Hardball (MSNBC), National Public Radio, and Marketplace, among others, and has been quoted in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and
other newspapers and magazines. Skeel has twice received the Harvey
Levin award for outstanding teaching, as selected by a vote of the
graduating class, and has also received the University’s Lindback Award
for distinguished teaching. In addition to bankruptcy and corporate law,
Skeel also writes on sovereign debt, Christianity and law, and poetry
and the law, and is an elder at Tenth Presbyterian Church in
Philadelphia.