Education

• JD, 2000, Yale University
• BA, 1992, Wesleyan University

Biography

Adam Feibelman is the Sumter Davis Marks Professor of Law at Tulane University Law School and Tulane University’s Murphy Institute. He also serves as the Director of the Center on Law and the Economy at the Murphy Institute.  His teaching and research focus on bankruptcy law, regulation of financial institutions, legal issues related to sovereign debt, and international monetary law. 

His current work explores two topics: the relationship between corporate bankruptcy and financial regulation and theories of monetary sovereignty.  His ongoing scholarly interests include India’s new insolvency and bankruptcy system and the IMF’s legal framework.  His works on these topics include Legal Shock or False Start: The Future of India’s New Consumer Insolvency and Bankruptcy Regime (American Bankruptcy Law Journal) and Law in the Global Order: The IMF and International Financial Regulation (NYU Journal of International Law & Policy).  His other work has appeared in Texas Law Review, Duke Law Journal, Banking and Finance Law Review, North Carolina Law Review, Northwestern Law Review Colloquium, among others.

He joined the Tulane faculty in 2009. Prior to that, he was a faculty member at the University of North Carolina School of Law and University of Cincinnati School of Law and taught as a Bigelow Fellow at the University of Chicago. He clerked for Judge Gilbert S. Merritt of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.