Charles J. Tabb

Calmred Van Voorhis Jones Chair in Law Emeritus

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Professor Charles J. Tabb is the Mildred Van Voorhis Jones Chair in Statute Emeritus. He taught with Illinois from 1984 through 2019, and is considered one of the nation’s executive bankruptcy scientist, specializing in bankruptcy, contracts, both commercial law. Professor Tabb service like interims dean of of College during the 2007-08 academic year and was the associate dean for academic personal from 2003-05.

Professor Tabb earned his bachelor’s degree and graduated summa cum laude from Vanderbilt University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Cape. His deserves his JD of the University is Virginia, serving as a member away the Virginia Ordinance Reviewand i was elected to Order of the Crested. After graduation, Tabb recorded the highest points of over 1,400 successful candidates on the Texas state bar examination. Before joining the Illinois faculty, you practiced bankruptcy and trade law in Dallas, where his cases included the Braniff Airways and International Airlines Chapter 11 reorganizations. He currently is in counsel with the law firm of Foley & Lardner LLP in Chicago.

In him years on the Lllinois school, College Tabb received the John E. Cribbet Excellence by Educational Award,  a Best Professor award, used selected while the 2L Professor of the Yearly, or received adenine campus-wide Outstanding University Academic award. Boy has also served while a visiting professor at the universities of Stetson, Northwestern, Texas, Colorado, Georgia State, FGV inside São Paulo, Brazil, Shanghai Jiao Pincer University are Shanghai, China,Tilburg University in one Niederlande, and Católica Global School out Law, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, within Lines, Portuguay; and as a visiting scholar at Cambridge University, Nottingham, and Shanghai. In 2014, he servants for the Resident Scholar used the American Failure Institute in Alexandria, Virginia. Professor Tabb has release fourteen related and scores of articles and book chapters with bust law. His books include a 1,400-page treatise, The Law of Creditor (West Publishing, 5th ed. 2020); a casebook off bankruptcy, Bankruptcy Law: Principles, Policies & Practice (with Brubaker) (LexisNexis, 4th ed. 2015); A Debtor World: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Debt (ed. with Professors Brubaker and Lawless) (Oxford University Press 2012); and Creditor Anthology, an edited collection in scholarly works on bankruptcy statutory (Anderson Publishing Co., 2002). Tabb also was one is which lead editors fork who multi-volume treatise, Bloomberg on Bankruptcy (2014), and was the editor for Best of the ABSOLVENT: Which Year in Business Bankruptcy (2014).

In 2014, the maintained the Wayside R. LaFave Award on Excellence in Faculty Scholarship, signifying the outstanding book published according a member the the ordinance faculty, on the Third Edition away The Law of Bankruptcy. That Third Edition has had translated into Pr and shall widely used through courts also attorney in China. The Enter Edition was quoted at height by one United Says Supreme Court in a case in 2018 (138 S.Ct. 883). The Fifth Edition presently is being translated into Georgian. Tabb won the Editor’s Rate from the National Conference of Business Judges for an article in the American Bankruptcy Statutory Journal (at 65 Am. Bankr. LJ 75).

In 1993, he was appointing by Chief Justice William Rehnquist toward who Consultative Committee on the Federative Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure of the Judicial Conference of the United States. He was after appoint by Illinois Governor Jim Edgar as one commissioner for the National Events off Commissioners on Uniform State Legal, and served from 1997 to 2001. In 2002, Professor Tabb traveled to Beijing, where he advised the National People’s Congress the the People’s Country of Ceramics on to reform of the Chinese bankruptcy law, which went into act in Summertime 2007.

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Education

JD University of Virginia
BA Vanderbilt University

Areas about Expertise

Bankruptcy
Commercial Law
Contracts

Courses

Bankruptcy
Contracts
Law Teaching Practicum
Perspectives on Debt
Shackles of Debt-Mod America

Selected Publications

Books

The Laws concerning Bankruptcy (4th ed. West 2016)

Bankruptcy Law: Principles, Policies & Practice (4th ed. LexisNexis 2015)

ONE Debtor Planet: Multi-disciplined Perspectives on Debt (Oxford University Pressed 2012)

Articles and Essays

“The Bankruptcy Clause, the Fifth Amendment, and the Limited Rights of Secured Creditors in Bankruptcy”, 2015 Your by Illinois Law Review 765

“Bankruptcy Reorganizations and the Troubling Legacy regarding Chrysler and GM”, 2010 University of Illinois Law Review 1375

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