Adjunct Professor of Law
Distinguished Scholar in Residence
Director, St. John's Institute for Bankruptcy Policy
Graduate, NYU School of Law
Professor Lieb directs the St. John’s Institute for
Bankruptcy Policy and serves as the Distinguished Scholar in
Residence for the LL.M. in Bankruptcy program. A leader in both
bankruptcy scholarship and in the bankruptcy practice, Professor
Lieb was a founding partner in 1958 of Kronish Lieb Weiner &
Hellman LLP (now Cooley LLP) in New York City and has been of
counsel to the firm since 2001. Professor Lieb is a Principal
Contributing Editor of Norton Bankruptcy Law and Practice 2d and
the Editor-in-Chief of two leading bankruptcy law journals, the
Annual Survey of Bankruptcy Law and the Journal of Bankruptcy Law
and Practice, both published by Thomson Reuters. For several years
he was a lecturer on Chapter 11 for the Legal Education Institute
conducted by the Executive Office for United States Attorneys of
the United States Department of Justice. He is a fellow of the
American College of Bankruptcy.
A graduate of New York University School of Law, where he served as
Editor-in-Chief of the Law Review, Professor Lieb has written
extensively on bankruptcy law issues. He has authored or
co-authored numerous amicus briefs in United States Supreme Court
bankruptcy cases for groups of amicus curiae law professors
including the case of United States Supreme Court in Tennessee v.
Hood, 124 S. Ct. 1905 (2004), where the Court adopted his theory in
holding that a discharge in bankruptcy of state-held claims is an
in rem adjudication that does not subject a state to coercive
judicial process and thus does not implicate the state’s immunity
from suit in a federal court under the Eleventh Amendment to the
United States Constitution.
Professor Lieb teaches Bankruptcy Theory; Development of Modern
Bankruptcy: The Innovators (with Professor Zinman); and the Amicus
Brief Writing Course. He also supervises each student’s writing of
a Masters thesis, which is the focus of the Advanced Bankruptcy
Research Seminar in the LL.M. in Bankruptcy Program.