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Professor Todd J. Zywicki
TODD J. ZYWICKI is George Mason University Foundation Professor of Law at George Mason
University School of Law and Senior Scholar of the Mercatus Center at George
Mason University. In 2009, Professor Zywicki was honored as the recipient
of the Institute for Humane Studies
2009 Charles G. Koch
Outstanding IHS Alum Award. Since 2006 he has served as Co-Editor of
the
Supreme Court
Economic Review. From 2003-2004, Professor Zywicki served as the
Director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission.
He teaches in the area of Bankruptcy, Contracts, Commercial Law, Business
Associations, Law & Economics, and Public Choice and the Law. He has also
taught at Vanderbilt University Law School, Georgetown University Law Center,
Boston College Law School, and Mississippi College School of Law.
Professor
Zywicki clerked for Judge Jerry E. Smith of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the
Fifth Circuit and worked as an associate at Alston & Bird in Atlanta, Georgia,
where he practiced bankruptcy and commercial law. He received his J.D. from the
University of Virginia, where he was executive editor of the Virginia Tax Review
and John M. Olin Scholar in Law and Economics. Professor Zywicki also received
an M.A. in Economics from Clemson University and an A.B. cum Laude with high
honors in his major from Dartmouth College.
Professor Zywicki is a Senior Scholar of the
Mercatus Center
at George Mason University, Senior Fellow of the
James
Buchanan Center for Political Economy Program on Philosophy, Politics, and
Economics, at George Mason University, a Senior Fellow of the
Goldwater
Institute, and a Fellow of the International Centre
for Economic Research in Turin, Italy. During the Fall 2008 Semester
Professor Zywicki was the Searle Fellow of the George Mason University School of
Law and was a 2008-09 W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell National
Fellow and the Arch W. Shaw National Fellow at the the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace
at Stanford University. He has lectured and consulted with government
officials around the world, including Iceland, Italy,
Japan,
and
Guatemala. In 2006 Professor Zywicki served as a Member of the United
States Department of Justice Study Group on "Identifying Fraud, Abuse and Errors
in the United States Bankruptcy System."
Professor Zywicki is the author of more than 70 articles
in leading law reviews and peer-reviewed economics journals. He is one of
the Top 50 Most Downloaded Law Authors at the Social Science Research Network,
both All Time and during the Past 12 Months. He served as the
Editor of the Supreme Court Economic Review from 2001-02. He has
testified several times before Congress on issues of consumer bankruptcy law and
consumer credit and is a frequent commentator on legal issues in the print and
broadcast media, including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times,
Washington Post, Washington Times, Forbes, Nightline, The Newshour with Jim Lehrer, Fox and Friends,
Fox Business, CNN, CNBC, Bloomberg
News, BBC, ABC Radio, The Diane Rehm Show, Lou Dobbs Radio Show,
Neil Caputo Show, and The Laura Ingraham Show.
He is a contributor to the popular legal weblog The
Volokh Conspiracy and The Atlantic magazine's
The Atlantic Business Channel. Professor Zywicki is a member of the Governing
Board and the Advisory Council for the
Financial Services
Research Program at George Washington University School of Business, the
Board of Directors of the
The Bill of
Rights Institute, the
Executive Committee for the Federalist
Society's Financial Institutions and E-Commerce Practice Group, the Advisory
Council of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the
Program Advisory Board of the
Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment (FREE), and the
Advisory Council of the
Centro para el Analisis de las Decisiones Publicas,
Universidad de
Francisco Marroquin, Guatemala City, Guatemala (Public Choice Center at
University of Francisco Marroquin) . He is currently the Chair of
the Academic Advisory Council for the following organizations:
The Bill of
Rights Institute, the film “We the People in IMAX,” and the McCormick-Tribune Foundation “Freedom
Museum” in Chicago, Illinois. From 2005-2009 he served as an elected Alumni Trustee
of the Dartmouth College Board of Trustees. In 2009 he was elected to the
Board of Trustees
of Yorktown University.
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