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Publications | Presentations | Professional Memberships | Languages
After law school, Jason Kilborn clerked for Judge Walter K. Stapleton of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He then was an associate with Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton and at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering. Professor Kilborn taught for six years at Louisiana State University, and as a visiting assistant professor at the University of North Dakota School of Law, Chapman University School of Law, and the University of Texas School of Law. He has participated in study abroad programs at Moscow State University, Russian State Pedagogical University, and Centre International des Études Françaises. He has published numerous law review articles, is an author of two books, and is co-editor of a third book.
Professor Kilborn's specialty areas include bankruptcy, secured transactions, business associations, and comparative law. He joined the John Marshall faculty in 2007 and teaches Secured Transactions and Corporations.
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Publications: Books
Comparative Consumer Bankruptcy (Carolina Academic Press 2007), http://www.cap-press.com/books/1534
Louisiana Security Devices-A Précis (Carolina Academic Press 2006), http://www.cap-press.com/books/1536
The Challenges of Insolvency Law Reform in the 21st Century - Facilitating Investment and Recovery to Enhance Economic Growth (Henry Peter, Nicolas Jeandin & Jason Kilborn eds., Schulthess Verlag: Zurich, Switzerland, 2006), http://www.schulthess.com/de/suche/detail.cfm?AR_ID=44398
Publications: Articles
Comparative Cause and Effect: Consumer Insolvency and the Eroding Social Safety Net, 14 Columbia J. European L. ___ (forthcoming 2008), http://ssrn.com/abstract=926203
Out with the New, In with the Old: As Sweden Aggressively Streamlines Its Consumer Bankruptcy System, Have U.S. Reformers Fallen Off the Learning Curve?, 80 Am. Bankr. L.J. 435 (2007) [peer reviewed], http://ssrn.com/abstract=913096
Continuity, Change, and Innovation in Emerging Consumer Bankruptcy Systems: Belgium and Luxembourg, 14 Am. Bankr. Inst. L. Rev. 69 (2006), http://ssrn.com/abstract=690802
The Hidden Life of Consumer Bankruptcy Reform: Danger Signs for the New U.S. Law From Unexpected Parallels in the Netherlands, 39 Vand. J. Transnat'l L. 77 (2006), http://ssrn.com/abstract=772705
Behavioral Economics, Overindebtedness, and Comparative Consumer Bankruptcy: Searching For Causes and Evaluating Solutions, 22 Emory Bankr. Dev. J. 13 (2005), http://ssrn.com/abstract=690826
La Responsabilisation de l'Economie: What the United States Can Learn From the New French Law on Consumer Overindebtedness, 26 Mich. J. Int'l L. 619 (2005), http://ssrn.com/abstract=703961
The Innovative German Approach to Consumer Debt Relief: Revolutionary Changes in German Law, and Surprising Lessons for the United States, 24 Nw. J. Int'l L. & Bus. 257 (2004) http://ssrn.com/abstract=452620
Mercy, Rehabilitation, and Quid Pro Quo: A Radical Reassessment of Individual Bankruptcy, 64 Ohio State L.J. 855 (2003)
Who's In Charge Here?: Putting Clients In Their Place, 37 Georgia L. Rev. 1 (2002)
Thou Canst Not Fly High With Borrowed Wings: Airline Finance and Bankruptcy Code Section 1110, 8 Geo. Mason L. Rev. 41 (1999)
Note, Securing Russia's Future: A Plea for Reform in Russian Secured Transactions Law, 95 Mich. L. Rev. 255 (1996)
Publications: Electronic
Invited guest blog posts on Credit Slips, http://www.creditslips.org, April 2-6, 2007 (Welcome to Jason Kilborn: http://www.creditslips.org/creditslips/2007/04/welcome_to_jaso.html):
Making America Better:
http://www.creditslips.org/creditslips/2007/04/making_america_.html
Setting the Comparative Record Straight: http://www.creditslips.org/creditslips/2007/04/setting_the_com.html
Shameless Americans:
http://www.creditslips.org/creditslips/2007/04/shameless_ameri.html
Subprime Lending, Default Risk, and Personal Bankruptcy Reform: http://www.creditslips.org/creditslips/2007/04/subprime_lendin.html
Why Can't We All Just Agree?: http://www.creditslips.org/creditslips/2007/04/why_cant_we_all.html
Bankruptcy for the Chronically Destitute: http://www.creditslips.org/creditslips/2007/04/bankruptcy_for_.html
Consumer Debt Relief, Harmonization, and Human Rights: http://www.creditslips.org/creditslips/2007/04/consumer_debt_r.html
Presentations
Harvard University-University of Texas Conference "Commercial Law Realities," Cambridge, MA, Presentation: Empirical Data on European Debtors in Consumer Insolvency (Feb. 29, 2008)
AALS Section on Creditors' and Debtors' Rights Meeting, Orlando, FL, Panel Presentation: Learning and Teaching International and Comparative Insolvency Law (Oct. 13, 2007)
Law & Society Association Annual Meeting, Berlin, Germany, Paper: Comparative Cause and Effect: Consumer Insolvency and the Eroding Social Safety Net (July 26, 2007)
Third Annual Consumer Bankruptcy Practice Seminar, Galveston, TX, Presentation: Chapter 13: What Works and What Doesn't-What do the Numbers Show (June 28, 2007)
University of Texas-Harvard University Conference "Commercial Law Realities," Austin, TX, Paper: U.S. Implications of 2006 Reform of Swedish Consumer Bankruptcy Law (April 14, 2007)
Law & Society Association Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD, Roundtable Participant: Comparative Perspectives on Prevention and Treatment of Overindebtedness (July 9, 2006)
INSOL International Annual Regional Conference, Academics Meeting, Scottsdale, AZ, Paper: Consumer Bankruptcy Reform in the U.S. and the Netherlands (May 20, 2006)
University of Houston Conference on Teaching Consumer Law, Houston, TX, Panel presentation: Classroom Benefits of a Comparative Perspective on Consumer Bankruptcy (May 19, 2006)
Harvard University-University of Texas Conference "Commercial Law Realities," Cambridge, MA, Paper: Consumer Bankruptcy Reform, U.S., Netherlands, Sweden (April 28, 2006)
Working paper presentation, University of San Diego School of Law: Consumer Bankruptcy Reform in the U.S. and the Netherlands (Sept. 16, 2005)
Professional Development Workshop "Bankruptcy Reform Legislation," Louisiana Bankers Association, Monroe, LA (Sept. 14, 2005)
Cegla Center Conference "Personal Bankruptcy in the 21st Century: Emerging Trends and New Challenges," Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel, Paper: Behavioral Economics and Comparative Consumer Bankruptcy (June 5-8, 2005)
Presentation by teleconference to graduate-level course, Univ. de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia: Developments in consumer bankruptcy in Europe, U.S., and South America (May 20, 2005)
Presentation to litigation group, McGlinchey Stafford PLLC, Baton Rouge, LA: Bankruptcy Reform Act issues of interest to litigators (May 13, 2005)
International Association of Consumer Law Annual Conference, Lima, Peru, Paper: Consumer Bankruptcy in Belgium and Luxembourg (May 6, 2005)
Joint University of Texas-Harvard University Conference "Commercial Law Realities," Austin, TX, Paper: Consumer Bankruptcy in Belgium and Luxembourg (April 8, 2005)
Symposium, Bicentenary of French Civil Code, Presentation on Civil Law and Economics, "Civil Law Systems and Consumers," LSU Law Center, Baton Rouge, LA (Sept. 7, 2004), published as Civil Codes and Consumers, 51 Loyola L. Rev. 11 (2005)
Presentation to the Baton Rouge Bankruptcy Bar Association: "Means Testing" and other current bankruptcy reform developments (April 1, 2003)
Professional Memberships
Ass'n of American Law Schools, Section on Creditors' and Debtors' Rights:
Chair Elect 2008
Secretary/Treasurer 2006-07
Treasurer 2005
Languages
Native: English
Fluent: Russian, French
Reading Knowledge: German, Dutch (and Afrikaans), Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Spanish, Italian
Rudimentary: Portuguese, Latin, Czech, Japanese
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