Edward Janger

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ABOUT EDWARD JANGER

Edward Janger joined the Brooklyn Law School faculty in 1998. In the Fall of 2004 he served as the Robert Zinman Scholar-in-Residence at the American Bankruptcy Institute in Washington, D.C. In the Spring of 2008, he served as the Bruce W. Nichols Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School. He was the Anne Urowsky Visiting Professor at Yale Law School in the Fall of 2010 and visited again in 2012, 2015, and 2017 (as the Maurice R. Greenberg Visiting Professor). In the Spring of 2019, he served as a visiting research fellow at Harris Manchester College, Oxford University, and as a visiting professor at Tel Aviv University, Buchmann Faculty of Law. Professor Janger has published extensively in the areas of bankruptcy law, commercial law and data privacy. His writings include \"Ice Cube Bonds\"(with Melissa Jacoby), in the Yale Law Journal,\"The Logic and Limits of Liens,\" in the Illinois Law Review,\"The Myth of the Rational Borrower: Behaviorism, Rationality and the Misguided \"Reform\" of Bankruptcy Law?(with Susan Block-Lieb), in the Texas Law Review,\"Notification of Data Security Breaches\'(with Paul Schwartz) in the Michigan Law Review. Other articles have appeared in William and Mary Law Review, Minnesota Law Review, Hastings Law Review, Connecticut Law Review and Cardozo Law Review. His article,\"Crystals and Mud in Bankruptcy Law: Judicial Competence and Statutory Design,\" published in the Arizona Law Review, was chosen for presentation at the Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum. Prior to teaching, Professor Janger was an associate with the firm of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering in Washington, specializing in bankruptcy and litigation, and was Law Clerk to Judge Irving L. Goldberg of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. He is the past-chair of the AALS Section on Commercial and Consumer Law. He served as consultant to the Business Bankruptcy Subcommittee of the Federal Bankruptcy Rules Advisory Committee.