Pamela Foohey is the Allen Post Professor of Law at the University of Georgia School of Law. Specializing in bankruptcy, commercial law, consumer finance and business law, Foohey’s scholarship primarily involves empirical studies of bankruptcy and related parts of the legal system, combining quantitative and qualitative interview-based research. She presently serves as a co-investigator on the Consumer Bankruptcy Law Project, a long-term research project studying persons who file bankruptcy. Data from this research project serve as the basis of her in-progress co-authored book Debt’s Grip: Risk and Consumer Bankruptcy, forthcoming with the University of California Press. Her work in business bankruptcy focuses on nonprofit entities, with a particular emphasis on how religious organizations use bankruptcy. Data from this project are included in her other in-progress book Forgive Us Our Debts: How Black Churches Use Bankruptcy to Survive, forthcoming with the University of Chicago Press.

She is a co-author for Secured Transactions: A Systems Approach, a leading textbook on the topic, and for Commercial Transactions: A Systems Approach. Her recent scholarship includes the article “Silencing Litigation Through Bankruptcy” in the Virginia Law Review. Other leading journals publishing her work include the Southern California Law Review, the Boston College Law Review, the Notre Dame Law Review and Law & Contemporary Problems, among others.

Foohey has assisted members of Congress and federal and state agencies in the areas of bankruptcy and consumer credit. She has also provided expert media commentary for high profile publications such as The New York Times, Financial Times and The Washington Post, in addition to Bloomberg and National Public Radio.