Lynn M. LoPucki is the Security Pacific Bank Distinguished Professor of Law at the UCLA Law School, and, each fall semester, the Bruce W. Nichols Visiting Professor of Law at the Harvard Law School. He teaches Secured Transactions and Empirical Analysis of Law at both schools. LoPucki has done in empirical research on large public company bankruptcies for more than twenty-five years and has been quoted in more than a thousand news articles. The UCLA-LoPucki Bankruptcy Research Database provides data for much, if not most, empirical work on the topic. LoPucki’s book, Courting Failure: How Competition for Big Cases Is Corrupting the Bankruptcy Courts (University of Michigan Press 2005) shocked the bankruptcy world with empirical evidence regarding the effects of forum shopping and court competition. LoPucki and his frequent coauthor, Joseph W. Doherty, recently published Controlling Professional Fees in Corporate Bankruptcies (Oxford University Press 2011). LoPucki uses an empirically-based systems approach for policy analysis. He has proposed public identities as the solution to identify theft, court system transparency as the solution to judicial bias, and an effective filing system as the solution to the deceptive nature of secured credit. LoPucki is co-author of two widely used law school case books: Secured Credit: A Systems Approach (6th edition, with Elizabeth Warren, 2009) and Commercial Transactions: A Systems Approach (with Warren, Keating, and Mann, 4th edition, 2009) a leading practice manual: Strategies for Creditors in Bankruptcy Proceedings (with Christopher R. Mirick, 5th edition, 2007) and a popular series of bankruptcy procedure flow charts: Bankruptcy Visuals. LoPucki’s Death of Liability thesis – propounded in a Yale Law Journal article in 1996 – is featured in casebooks in several fields.