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Faculty Profile

Jean Braucher

Roger C. Henderson Professor of Law


E-mail:  Jean Braucher
Office Number: 225
Office Phone: (520) 626-7251
Office Fax: (520) 621-9140

Courses Taught:
Contracts Bankruptcy Commercial Law
Curriculum Vitae
SSRN Published Papers

Biographical Information

Additional Institutional Affiliation

Distinguished Scholar and Chair of the Wisconsin Contracts Project, Institute for Legal Studies, University of Wisconsin Law School (2007 - present ).

Education
Boston University School of Law, J.D. (1978) Graduated cum laude
Brown University, A.B. (1972) 

Representative Publications
Contracts: Law in Action: Vols. I & II (3d ed., 2010 & 2011) (co-author, with Stewart Macaulay, John Kidwell, & William Whitford).
The Sacred and Profane Contracts Machine: The Complex Morality of Contract Law In Action, 45 Suffolk U. L. Rev. 101 (2012) (Article for Symposium on Charles Fried's Contract as Promise at 30: The Future of Contract Theory).
Humpty Dumpty and the Foreclosure Crisis: Lessons from the Lackluster First Year of the Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP), 52 Ariz. L. Rev. 727 (2010).
A Law-in-Action Approach to Comparative Study of Repayment Forms of Consumer Bankruptcy, in Consumer Credit, Debt and Bankruptcy: Comparative and International Perspectives 331 (Johanna Niemi, Iain Ramsay, & William C Whitford eds., 2009).
Complete List of Publications

Presentations
Paper presentation, Mortgaging Human Capital: Federally-Funded Subprime Higher Education (Symposium on Regulation in the Fringe Economy, Washington & Lee University School of Law, Nov. 2011; International Association of Consumer Law, Brunel University, London, June 2011; and Law & Society Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, Cal., June 2011). 
Commentator, Empirical and Lyrical: Revisiting the Contracts Scholarship of Stewart Macaulay (Symposium, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis., Oct. 2011). 
Paper presentation, Unfair Terms in Comparative Perspective: The Example of Software Contracts (Symposium on Contract Law in Transatlantic Perspective, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK, Sept. 2011). 

Public Service
Robert Zinman Scholar in Residence, American Bankruptcy Institute, Alexandria VA Spring 2011
Vice-President, National Consumer Bankruptcy Rights Center 2010 - present
Board of Directors, National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys 2010 - present
Peer Reviewer, American Bankruptcy Law Journal

 

Updated: 04/23/2013