Anne Lawton

Anne Lawton is a professor of law at Michigan State University College of Law in East Lansing, Mich., where she teaches contracts, consumer and corporate bankruptcy, and sales. She is a member of ABI's Individual Chapter 11 Task Force and is the associate investigator for the National Study of Individual Chapter 11 Bankruptcies, funded by ABI's Anthony H.N. Schnelling Endowment Fund. She also has served as a consultant to the Governance and Supervision of Chapter 11 Cases and Companies Committee for the ABI Commission to Study the Reform of Chapter 11. The Commission used data that Prof. Lawton provided to set the $10M asset or liability cutoff for small- to medium-sized entities. In the spring of 2015, she served as the ABI Resident Scholar. Prof. Lawton's research focuses on small business and individual chapter 11 debtors. She has published her bankruptcy work in the American Bankruptcy Law Journal, the Washington & Lee Law Review, the Arizona Law Review and the ABI Law Review. Her earlier published work on employment discrimination, sexual harassment law, genetic dis- crimination, and law and business pedagogy appears in the Minnesota Law Review, the George Mason Law Review, the Kentucky Law Journal, the Journal of Legal Studies Education, and specialty journals at Yale, Columbia, the University of Pennsylvania and Emory. Prof. Lawton's case study, Pyramid, earned the runner-up award in a national case competition on ethics in real estate and was published by Columbia University's Business School.