Modern Real Estate Finance and Land Transfer: A Transactional Approach, Sixth Edition

Professor Zinman teaches courses in bankruptcy, property, and real estate transactions. He is the Founder and first director of the St. John's Master of Laws Program in Bankruptcy, the only such program in the nation. Professor Zinman has previously served as President and Chairman of the American Bankruptcy Institute, the largest organization of insolvency professionals in the world, with over 9,000 members. Recently, the American Bankruptcy Institute named its scholar-in-residence program in his honor.

Professor Zinman is a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy and a member of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers, where he served for three years as a Governor. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Real Property Section of the New York State Bar Association and Co-Editor of the N.Y. Real Property Law Journal. He is a member of the American Law Institute. Professor Zinman previously served as a member of the Council of the Section of Real Property, Probate and Trust Law of the American Bar Association; as Chair of the American Bar Association's Ad Hoc Committee to Study the Federal Priority in Insolvency; as a member of the Joint Editorial Board for the Uniform Real Property Acts; as an Advisor for the Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act and the Restatement of Property, Third — Mortgages; and as Chair of the Section of Post-Graduate Legal Education of the Association of American Law Schools.

Author of numerous articles and a frequent speaker in the areas of real estate and bankruptcy, Professor Zinman is co-author (with professors Madison and Bender) of MODERN REAL ESTATE FINANCE AND LAND TRANSFER (2nd ed. 1999). Professor Zinman joined the faculty in 1998 after serving at Metropolitan Life Insurance Company as Vice-President and Investment Counsel. While at MetLife, he served as Chairman of the life insurance industry’s bankruptcy legislation committee and participated in the drafting of the Bankruptcy Code and its amendments. He was Chairman of the Investment Section of the Association of Life Insurance Counsel. While practicing law, he was an Adjunct Professor at Fordham and New York University Schools of Law.

At St. John's, Professor Zinman is Co-Faculty Advisor for the AMERICAN BANKRUPTCY INSTITUTE LAW REVIEW, widely regarded as the preeminent bankruptcy scholarly journal, which is edited by the students at St. John's. He is also faculty advisor for the Real Property Law Society, the Bankruptcy Law Society, and the Chief Judge Conrad B. Duberstein National Bankruptcy Moot Court Competition (hosted annually by St. John's and the American Bankruptcy Institute). He teaches Property, Creditors' Rights, Bankruptcy Theory, Real Estate Workouts and Bankruptcy, Advanced Real Estate Transactions, and the Advanced Bankruptcy Research Seminar.