Rate My Professor Adam Feibelman

Adam Feibelman is the Sumter Davis Marks Professor of Law at Tulane University Law School, where he also holds a position at Tulane University’s Murphy Institute. He currently serves as Director of the Center on Law and the Economy. Feibelman earned a J.D. from Yale Law School in 2000 and a B.A. in History from Wesleyan University in 1992. After law school, he clerked for Judge Gilbert S. Merritt on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. His academic appointments include Bigelow Fellow and Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago Law School from 2001 to 2003, Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Cincinnati College of Law from 2003 to 2004, and Professor and Associate Professor at the University of North Carolina School of Law from 2005 to 2009. Since joining Tulane in 2009, he has served as Associate Dean for Faculty Research from 2012 to 2019 and Director of the Murphy Institute Regulation Policy Program from 2014 to 2019.

Feibelman's research and teaching specialize in bankruptcy law, regulation of financial institutions, legal issues related to sovereign debt, and international monetary law. His recent scholarship explores the interplay between corporate bankruptcy and financial regulation, theories of monetary sovereignty, India’s new insolvency and bankruptcy system, and the IMF’s legal framework. In 2016, he received a Fulbright fellowship to conduct research on Indian bankruptcy reforms. Notable publications include "Legal Shock or False Start: The Future of India’s New Consumer Insolvency and Bankruptcy Regime," published in the American Bankruptcy Law Journal in 2019; "Law in the Global Order: The IMF and International Financial Regulation," in the NYU Journal of International Law & Policy in 2017; "The IMF and International Coordination of Cross-Border Capital Controls," in the Chicago Journal of International Law in 2015; "Contract, Priority, and Odious Debt," in the North Carolina Law Review in 2007; and "Federal Bankruptcy Law and State Sovereign Immunity," in the Texas Law Review in 2003. He previously chaired the Association of American Law Schools Section on Financial Institutions and Consumer Financial Services in 2009-2010.