Adler, Barry E.

Barry Adler has written numerous articles on the application of corporate finance theory to issues of corporate insolvency. These articles suggest that bankruptcy law can be properly understood as an integral part of contract, property, and tort law rather than as a mere supplemental body of law applied after a financial failure. He is currently at work on a book titled The Law of Last Resort, which will elaborate on this theme. Beyond scholarship on bankruptcy, Adler has been published and continues to write in the fields of contract and corporate law. After graduating with honors in 1982 from Cornell University and graduating with honors in 1985 from the University of Chicago Law School, where he was an Olin Fellow in Law and Economics, Adler clerked for Judge Frank Easterbrook of the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Adler spent the summer of 1995 as a consultant for the Harvard Institute for International Development. He joined the NYU School of Law faculty in 1996, leaving his position as the Sullivan & Cromwell Research Professor of Law at the University of Virginia, and served as vice dean of NYU Law from 2004 to 2007