Bruce Grohsgal

Prof. Bruce Grohsgal is the Helen S. Balick Professor in Business Bankruptcy Law at Delaware LawSchool, Widener University, where he teaches bankruptcy, contracts and other commercial law courses.He previously was a partner in the Wilmington, Del., office of Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones, where he represented debtors, creditors’ committees and trustees in chapter 11 bankruptcy cases and litigation.Prof. Grohsgal was a Senior Fellow at Americans for Financial Reform, Washington, D.C., from October2012 to January 2013 while on sabbatical from his former firm. He also chaired the Bankruptcy Section of the Delaware State Bar Association from 2008-09. Prof. Grohsgal has spoken and written on numerous bankruptcy topics, including “first-day” motions, asset sales, the treatment of derivatives, repos and other financial instruments in bankruptcy, financial institution bankruptcies, and structured dismissals.His recent articles include “Why Student Loans Are Nearly Impossible to Discharge in Bankruptcy,”XLI JAN Am. Bankr. Inst. J. 58 (Jan. 2022); “The Alteration of Ex Ante Agreements by the BankruptcyCode,” 95 Am. Bankr. L. J. 713 (2021); “The Long Strange Trip to a Certainty of Hopelessness: TheLegislative and Political History of the Non discharge of Student Loans in Bankruptcy,” 95 Am. Bankr.L. J. 443 (2021); and “The Argument for a Federal Rule of Decision for a Bankruptcy Court’s Recharacterization of a Claim as Equity,” 94 Am. Bankr. L. J. 681 (2020). In addition, he is editor-in-chief of theNorton Journal of Bankruptcy Law and Practice and co-editor-in-chief of the Norton Annual Survey ofBankruptcy Law, and he is the director of the Institute of Delaware Corporate and Business Law. Prof.Grohsgal received his J.D. in 1980 from Columbia University Law School.