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Professor Todd J. Zywicki
TODD J. ZYWICKI is Professor of Law at George Mason
University School of Law and Senior Fellow of the James Buchanan Center, Program
on Politics, Philosophy, and Economics, at George Mason University. He is
currently (with Ilya Somin) 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. During the Fall 2007
semester Professor Zywicki will be a Visiting Professor of Law at Vanderbilt
University Law School. He has also taught at
Georgetown Law Center, Boston College Law School and Mississippi College School
of Law and is a Fellow of the International Centre
for Economic Research in Turin, Italy. He has lectured and consulted
with government officials around the world, including Iceland, Italy,
Japan,
and
Guatemala. Professor Zywicki also 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 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 the author of more than 60 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,
Nightline, The Newshour with Jim Lehrer, CNN, CNBC, Bloomberg
News, BBC, The Diane Rehm Show, and The Laura Ingraham Show.
He is a contributor to the popular legal weblog The
Volokh Conspiracy. 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
Executive Committee for the Federalist
Society's Financial Institutions and E-Commerce Practice Group, and the
Program Advisory Board of the
Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment. 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’s “Freedom
Museum” in Chicago, Illinois. In 2005 he was elected an Alumni Trustee
of the Dartmouth College Board of Trustees.
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