Inside Bankruptcy: What Matters and Why, Second Edition

Nathalie Martin is the Frederick M. Hart Chair in Consumer and Clinical Law at the University of New Mexico School of Law (UNMSOL), where she regularly teaches bankruptcy, contracts, secured transactions, and other UCC classes. She also has taught in the Economic Justice Clinic, as well as consumer law and business associations. She has written a number of articles about bankruptcy law and other related topics, which are listed http://lawschool.unm.edu/faculty/martin/index.html. Her current research involves payday and title lending contracts, advertising, and legislation. She also has done an empirical study of attitudes about interest rates and usury, and the effect these attitudes should have on legislation. She also studies credit use among undocumented immigrants who live in the U.S.

Prior to teaching, she was in private practice in Philadelphia and Boston, where she specialized in Chapter 11 reorganization. Professor Martin was the American Bankruptcy Institute Scholar in residence for the Fall of 2005. The endowed chair that she occupies, the Frederick M. Hart Chair in Consumer and Clinical Law, is thought to be one of the only chairs in the country dedicated to scholarly pursuits in the consumer law area. She has also written books and taught classes on mindfulness in legal education and in the legal community as a whole. She is part of a growing group of law professors incorporating wellness into professional responsibility and professional legal identity formation.