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BRUCE A. MARKELL is a bankruptcy judge for the District of Nevada, Las Vegas Division. Judge Markell is a 1977 graduate of Pitzer College, and a 1980 graduate of the King Hall School of Law, University of California at Davis, where he was first in his class and editor-in-chief of the law review. Following graduation, he clerked for then-judge Anthony M. Kennedy when Justice Kennedy was a member of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Before becoming an academic in 1990, he was a partner in the Los Angeles office of Sidley & Austin, specializing in workouts and bankruptcy matters. During 1999, he was the Bruce W. Nichols Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and the Southeastern Bankruptcy Law Institute Visiting Professor of Law at Georgia State University. Professor Markell is the author of numerous articles on bankruptcy and commercial law. He recently published a casebook on Contracts, Making and Doing Deals: Contracts in Context, with David Epstein and Lawrence Ponoroff. He is currently working on three additional casebooks in the areas of Commercial Law, Bankruptcy and Securitization. In 1999 he was elected a conferee of the National Bankruptcy Conference (where he currently serves on the Executive Committee). In 1997 he was selected as a member of the American Law Institute, and in 2000 he was selected as a member of the International Insolvency Institute and as a fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy.
