G. Ray Warner is the Director of the
LL.M. in Bankruptcy program and a Professor of Law. Prior to
joining the St. John's faculty in 2003, he was the William P.
Boreland Distinguished Scholar and Professor of Law at the School
of Law of the University of Missouri - Kansas City. He has served
as the Robert M. Zinman Resident Scholar at the American Bankruptcy
Institute in Washington, D.C., the leading multi-disciplinary,
non-partisan organization dedicated to research and education on
matters related to insolvency. Along with Professor Zinman, he is
Co-Faculty Advisor for the American Bankruptcy Institute Law
Review, which is edited by students at St. John's.
Professor Warner holds an LL.M. in Corporation Law from New York
University School of Law, a J.D. degree, cum laude, from
Northwestern University School of Law and a bachelor's degree in
mathematics from Emory University, where he graduated Phi Beta
Kappa.
Professor Warner has taught a variety of courses in the
bankruptcy, commercial law, and consumer law areas. Prior to
joining the St. John's faculty, he received the University of
Missouri's Pierson Award for Outstanding Teaching in Law and was a
multiple recipient of law school teaching awards.
Professor Warner is a regular seminar speaker at professional
conferences. He has published numerous articles in the bankruptcy,
commercial law and consumer law areas. He is a contributing author
to Cavitch, Business Organizations, is the editor of the ABI
Delaware & Third Circuit Decisions Update, and a regular
contributor to the Journal of the American Bankruptcy
Institute.
Professor Warner is active in national organizations in the
bankruptcy and insolvency fields. He is the former Chair, former
Dean, and a founder of the American Board of Certification, the
only national credentialing body for bankruptcy and creditors'
rights practitioners. He served as Secretary and a member of both
the Board of Directors and the Executive Committee of the American
Bankruptcy Institute. He is a former Director and former Secretary
of the National Association of Consumer Advocates. Professor Warner
serves as Of Counsel to the law firm of Greenberg Traurig, P.C.,
has consulted in numerous major bankruptcy and consumer law cases,
and represented the bankruptcy trustee before the United States
Supreme Court in a 9-0 victory in Fidelity Financial
Services, Inc. v. Fink, 522 U.S. 211, 118 S.Ct. 651, 139
L.Ed.2d 571 (1998). He is also a Fellow in the American College of
Bankruptcy and the Secretary of the Association of American
Law Schools' Section on Post-Graduate Legal Education.