Debts and the Demands of Conscience: The Virtue of Bankruptcy

Ralph Brubaker is a Professor of Law at the University of Illinois College of Law, where he teaches courses in bankruptcy, contracts, civil procedure, and conflict of laws. Professor Brubaker clerked for Judge James K. Logan of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, and he practiced in the bankruptcy and corporate reorganization group with the law firm Squire, Sanders & Dempsey. Professor Brubaker is the Editor-in-Chief and a contributingauthor for West's Bankruptcy Law Letter, he is co-author of a bankruptcy casebook, and he has written dozens of journal articles and essays. Professor Brubaker is a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy, has served as a member of the executive committee of the board of directors of the AmericanBankruptcy Institute and on the advisory boards for the American Bankruptcy Institute Law Review and the St. John's University LLM in Bankruptcy.Heidi M. Hurd is the David C. Baum Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Illinois and the Co-Director of the Illinois Program in Law and Philosophy. Professor Hurd served as dean of the University of the Illinois College of Law from 2002-2007. Prior to taking up this post, Professor Hurd was first a Professor of Law and Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where she was the Associate Dean and co-founder and Director of the University ofPennsylvania Institute for Law and Philosophy, and then the Herzog Professor of Law at the University of San Diego, where she initiated a similar center for Law and Philosophy. She regularly teaches criminal law, torts, and environmental policy, as well as philosophy courses in moral theory and politicalphilosophy. Professor Hurd is the author of Moral Combat (CUP, 1999), and her numerous articles have appeared in leading American and international journals.