Full-Time Faculty

Lea Krivinskas Shepard
Assistant Professor

 

Biography
Professor Shepard joined the Loyola faculty in 2008.  After graduating from Harvard Law School, where she served as executive editor of the Harvard International Law Journal, she worked as an associate at Jones Day in Cleveland, Ohio, her hometown.  Professor Shepard later clerked for the Honorable James G. Carr, Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, and the Honorable Terence T. Evans of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.  She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa.

Professor Shepard's research interests include bankruptcy, consumer law and credit, and financial institutions.

 

Education
A.B., Duke University, 2000
J.D., Harvard Law School, 2004

  

Professor Lea Krivinskas Shephard

 

Loyola University Chicago
School of Law
25 E. Pearson
Room 1416
Chicago, IL 60611
Phone: 312.915.6325
Email: lkrivinskas@luc.edu

Courses Taught
Bankruptcy Law
Consumer Law
Sales

 

Publications

Professor Shepard's SSRN Website

Articles

Creditors' Contempt, Brigham Young University Law Review (forthcoming 2011).

It's All About the Principal: Preserving Consumers' Right of Rescission Under the Truth in Lending Act, 89 North Carolina Law Review 171 (2010).

Lea Krivinskas, Don't File!: Rehabilitating Unauthorized Practice of Law-Based Policies in the Credit Counseling Industry, 79 American Bankruptcy Law Journal 51 (2005). 

 

Recent Presentations

"Settlement, Collection, and Modification," Teaching Consumer Law in the New Economy, University of Houston Center for Consumer Law, Houston, Texas (May 21, 2010).

"The Unauthorized Practice of Law in the Credit Counseling Industry," American Association of Debt Management Organizations (AADMO) Annual Meeting, St. Louis, Missouri (October 26, 2009).

"Health Care Restructuring Out of Court: Can the Patient Survive Without the Bitter Pill of Bankruptcy?," American Bankruptcy Institute, Health Care Triage 2009, Chicago, Illinois (June 26, 2009)

"Consumer Protection Law and the Elderly: What's New, What's Needed," American Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting, Section on Aging and the Law, San Diego, California (January 8, 2009)

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