ANNE LAWTON 453 Law College Building, E. Lansing, MI 48824-1300 E-mail Address: [email protected] Phone: 517-432-6908 EDUCATION J.D., cum laude, University of Michigan (joint J.D./M.B.A. program), 1986. • THE MICHIGAN JOURNAL OF LAW REFORM o Contributing Editor; Associate Editor • Book Award, ABA Section on Urban, State and Local Government, for paper on public control of land use. M.B.A., University of Michigan (joint J.D./M.B.A. program), 1986. A.B., with honors in History and with distinction, University of Michigan, 1982. PUBLICATIONS 1. Lawton, MUNICIPAL BANKRUPTCY IN A NUTSHELL (forthcoming late 2020). 2. Lawton, What Problem? A Response to How Cities Fail: Service Delivery Insolvency and Municipal Bankruptcy, ___ MICH. ST. L. REV. ____ (forthcoming Spring 2020). 3. Lawton, BANKRUPTCY- GILBERT LAW SUMMARIES (2019) (major update of pre- BAPCPA edition by Ned Waxman) 4. Hynes, Lawton & Howard, National Study of Individual Chapter 11 Bankruptcies, 25 AMERICAN BANKRUPTCY INSTITUTE LAW REVIEW 61 (Winter 2017). • SSRN Top Ten Download list: • Empirical Studies eJournal, as of May 23, 2017. • Bankruptcy, Reorganization & Creditors eJournal, as of May 19, 2017. • LSN: Bankruptcy, as of April 15, 2017; as of April 11, 2017. • Household Finance eJournal, as of May 13, 2017; as of April 28. 2017 • Accepted for presentation at the 11th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies (peer-review process), November 18-19, 2016, with presentation by Professor Richard Hynes. • Accepted for presentation at the Canadian Law and Economics Association Annual Conference, September 23-24, 2016, with presentation by Professor Richard Hynes. 5. Lawton, Individuals in Chapter 11: The National Study, ABI BANKRUPTCY BRIEF, April 14, 2017. 6. Lawton, Musings on BAPCPA and the Individual Chapter 11 Debtor, 90 AMERICAN BANKRUPTCY LAW JOURNAL 307 (2016) (symposium issue on BAPCPA at Ten). 7. Lawton, The Individual Chapter 11 Debtor Pre- and Post-BAPCPA, 89 AMERICAN BANKRUPTCY LAW JOURNAL 455 (2015) (double-blind peer-reviewed publication). 8. Lawton, Chapter 11 Reform Analysis: The Absolute Priority Rule Problem for Small Business Debtors, ABI BANKRUPTCY BRIEF, April 14, 2015. 9. Lawton, Will a Debtor with the Right to Appeal an Order Denying Confirmation of a Bankruptcy Plan be less Likely to Negotiate with Creditors? Justices Examine in Bullard, ABI BANKRUPTCY BRIEF, April 9, 2015. 1 10. Lawton, Who Gets Funds Held by Ch. 13 Trustee When Case Converts to 7? Supreme Court Looks to Policy, Equity and the Code During Oral Argument, ABI BANKRUPTCY BRIEF, April 7, 2015. 11. Lawton, Supreme Court, Advocates Struggle with Dewsnup at Oral Argument on Lien Stripping, ABI BANKRUPTCY BRIEF, March 31, 2015. 12. Lawton, Commission Comparison: Filing of an SME Petition and Document Deadlines, ABI BANKRUPTCY BRIEF, March 10, 2015. 13. Lawton, Looking Under the Hood of the Commission’s Recommendations on SMEs: Simple, Speedy and Effective, ABI BANKRUPTCY BRIEF, February 24, 2015. 14. Lawton, House Subcommittee Spars Over Asbestos Claim Transparency Legislation, ABI BANKRUPTCY BRIEF, February 5, 2015. 15. Lawton, Bankruptcy Rules Advisory Committee Holds Hearings on Mandatory National Chapter 13 Plan Form, ABI BANKRUPTCY BRIEF, January 27, 2015. 16. Lawton, An Argument for Simplifying the Code’s “Small Business Debtor” Definition, 21 AMERICAN BANKRUPTCY INSTITUTE LAW REVIEW 55 (2013). 17. Lawton, Chapter 11 Triage: Diagnosing a Debtor’s Prospects for Success, 54 ARIZONA LAW REVIEW 985 (2012). 18. The Honorable Scott Dales, Anne Lawton, Greg Luyt, and Michelle Wilson, So you want to get paid? How to get your fees paid without running afoul of the Court, the law or the rules of ethics, Twenty-Third Annual FBA Bankruptcy Conference, Western District of Michigan, July 2011 (short seminar materials of 10 pages or less). 19. The Honorable Scott Dales, Anne Lawton & Lori Purky, Exemption Issues Materials, Twenty-First Annual FBA Bankruptcy Conference, Western District of Michigan, July 2009 (short seminar materials of 10 pages or less). 20. Lawton & Oswald, Scary Stories and the Limited Liability Polluter in Chapter 11, 65 WASHINGTON & LEE LAW REVIEW 451 (2008). 21. Lawton, Between Scylla and Charybdis: The Perils of Reporting Sexual Harassment, 9 UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA JOURNAL OF LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT LAW 603 (Spring 2007). 22. Lawton, The Bad Apple Theory in Sexual Harassment Law, 13 GEORGE MASON LAW REVIEW 817 (Summer 2005). • Cited in annotations to 29 C.F.R. § 1604.11 Sexual Harassment 23. Lawton, Operating in an Empirical Vacuum: The Ellerth and Faragher Affirmative Defense, 13 COLUMBIA JOURNAL OF GENDER AND LAW 197 (Spring 2004). • Cited in Aguas v. New Jersey, 220 N.J. 494, 540-41 (2015) (Albin, J., dissenting). 24. Lawton, The Cultural Myth of Meritocracy, 2 EMPLOYEE RIGHTS QUARTERLY 57 (Winter 2002). 25. Lawton, Tipping the Scales of Justice in Sexual Harassment Law, 27 OHIO NORTHERN UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 517 (2001) (symposium). 26. Lawton, The Meritocracy Myth and the Illusion of Equal Employment Opportunity, 85 MINNESOTA LAW REVIEW 587 (December 2000). 27. Lawton, The Emperor’s New Clothes: How the Academy Deals with Sexual Harassment, 11 YALE JOURNAL OF LAW AND FEMINISM 75 (1999). 28. Lawton, The Frankenstein Controversy: The Constitutionality of a Federal Ban on Cloning, 87 KENTUCKY LAW JOURNAL 277 (1998-99). • Cited in Report for Congress, Substantive Due Process and a Right to Clone, CONGRESSIONAL RESEARCH SERVICE (May 21, 2002). 2 • Outstanding Paper Award, Tri-State Regional Business Law Association, Inc., November 1997 29. Lawton, Regulating Genetic Destiny: A Comparative Study of Legal Constraints in Europe and the United States, 11 EMORY INTERNATIONAL LAW REVIEW 365 (1997). 30. Lawton, Using a Management Driven Model to Teach Business Law, 15 JOURNAL OF LEGAL STUDIES EDUCATION 211-235 (Summer 1997). • Selected for inclusion in launch of EduRN, SSRN’s new Education Research Network (April 2018). Included in EduRN: Legal Scholarship Education (LSN) 31. Lawton and Oswald, Teaching the Doctrine of Precedent Through Simulations, 13 JOURNAL OF LEGAL STUDIES EDUCATION 121-146 (Winter/Spring 1995). 32. The Honorable James D. Gregg and Anne Lawton, Bankruptcy Ethics: The Attorney-Client Privilege and The Duty of Confidentiality re: Client Communications, FOURTH ANNUAL MIDWESTERN BANKRUPTCY CONFERENCE 213 (Prentice Hall Law & Business 1994) (seminar materials). 33. Lawton and Oswald, The Use of Simulated Hearings in Business Law Courses, 11 JOURNAL OF LEGAL STUDIES EDUCATION 103-126 (Winter/Spring 1993). 34. Lawton, Pyramid, Columbia Business School, 1993 (published case study). • Runner-Up Award, Albert Sussman Ethics in Real Estate Competition, Columbia Business School, 1993. COMMENTARY, TESTIMONY, AND REPORTS 1. Reporter, Local Rules Revision, Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Michigan, 2016-18. Final Rules Report submitted Summer 2018. 2. Letter opposing proposed revision to Standard 403 submitted July 10, 2017 (with Professors Barnhizer, Candeub, and Kuykendall). 3. Individuals in Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code, American Bankruptcy Institute, preliminary report submitted March 18, 2016 (with Richard Hynes, University of Virginia School of Law, and Margaret Howard, Washington & Lee School of Law). 4. Short report for American Association of University Women of Michigan on state equal rights amendment, June 2016. 5. Research Report for ACLU of Michigan on federal causes of action related to Flint water crisis, submitted February 29, 2016. 6. Commentary on Proposed Official Bankruptcy Forms, Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure, Judicial Conference of the United States, submitted February 16, 2015. 7. Chapter 11 Assets and Liabilities Report (2007), American Bankruptcy Institute Commission to Study the Reform of Chapter 11, submitted September 9, 2014. 8. Chapter 11 Assets and Liabilities Report (2004), American Bankruptcy Institute Commission to Study the Reform of Chapter 11, submitted July 17, 2014. 9. Written testimony advocating several small-business reforms, American Bankruptcy Institute Commission to Study the Reform of Chapter 11, submitted for Field Hearing held in Atlanta, Georgia, November 1, 2013. 10. Report on proposed small-business reforms, Governance and Supervision of Chapter 11 Cases and Companies Committee, American Bankruptcy Institute Commission to Reform Chapter 11 (Summer 2013). 3 GRANTS AWARDED 1. Predicting Successful Reorganization for Small Business Debtors in Chapter 11, seed grant from Center for Business and Social Analytics, Eli Broad College of Business, Michigan State University (with Dr. Anjana Susarla and Professor Adam Candeub). 2. Associate Investigator, National Study of Individual Chapter 11 Bankruptcies, funded by the Anthony H.N. Snelling Endowment Fund, American Bankruptcy Institute (with Professor Margaret Howard, Washington & Lee University School of Law, and Professor Richard Hynes, University of Virginia School of Law). a. Final report published in AMERICAN BANKRUPTCY INSTITUTE LAW REVIEW UNPUBLISHED ARTICLES AND PAPERS 1. Lawton, The Faculty: A Field Guide 2. Lawton, The Committee 3. The Institutional Economics of U.S. Bankruptcy Law (with Dr. Eric Scorsone and Dr. David Schweikhardt). (Paper presented by Dr. Eric Scorsone at World Interdisciplinary Network for Institutional Research, September 11, 2014. SCHOLARLY, ACADEMIC AND OTHER TEACHING POSITIONS A. Bankruptcy Related 1. Robert M. Zinman Resident Scholar, American Bankruptcy Institute, Spring Term 2015. 2. Member, Individual