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Vice Dean and Tyrrell Williams Professor of Law
Expertise: bankruptcy, employment law, commercial law, sales law, creditors' rights, debtors' rights
Bio:
Dan Keating teaches courses on bankruptcy, commercial paper and a seminar on reorganization in the School of Law. He is the author of two casebooks on commercial law, Sales: A Systems Approach (Aspen 1998) and Commercial Transactions: A Systems Approach (with LoPucki, Warren & Mann; Aspen 1998), as well as a treatise on the employment law implications of bankruptcy, Bankruptcy and Employment Law (Little Brown 1995). His knowledge of bankruptcy is informed by his firsthand commercial experience as an attorney for The First National Bank of Chicago.
WUSTL Contact Information:
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| Address: | One Brookings Drive Campus Box 1120 St. Louis, MO 63130
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Education:
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B.A. at Monmouth College
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J.D. at University of Chicago

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Cerberus Goes Where No Firm Has Gone Before
The New York Times
and 3 others

May 15,
2007 -- With an agreement to take control of Chrysler, Cerberus, a private equity firm, is venturing into virtually uncharted territory in taking on a company with the problems the size of Chrysler's and with a union as powerful as the United Automobile Workers.
WUSTL law professor and vice dean Daniel Keating comments.

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Miners' benefits vanish with bankruptcy ruling
New York Times
and 64 others

Oct. 25,
2004 -- WUSTL law professor and bankruptcy expert Daniel Keating comments on the case of retired miners losing their health benefits when their company went bankrupt. Some say this case was likely to encourage other coal companies to try to shed expensive union agreements through Chapter 11 filings.

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Additional Background:
Daniel Keating serves as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, where his responsibilities include oversight of academic matters at the law school, including the curriculum, tenure process and mentoring of new faculty.
Recent Publications
Books
* Sales: A Systems Approach, 2nd Ed. (Aspen Law and Business, 2003)
* Commercial Transactions: A Systems Approach, 2nd Ed. (Aspen Law and Business, 2003) (with L. LoPucki, E. Warren, & R. Mann)
* Bankruptcy and Employment Law: Bankruptcy's Impact on Employers, Employees, Unions, and Retirees (Little, Brown and Co. 1995)
Articles
* "Comment on White: Asbestos and Bankruptcy," 70 University of Cincinnati Law Review 1305 (2002)
* "The Human Side of Commercial Law," 6 Washington University Journal of Law and Policy 213 (2001)* "Exploring the Battle of the Forms in Action," 98 Michigan Law Review 2678 (2000)
* "Ten Myths About Law School Grading,"76 Washington University Law Quarterly 171 (1998)
* "Measuring Sales Law Against Sales Practice: A Reality Check,"17 Journal of Law and Commerce 99 (1997)
* "Bankruptcy, Tithing and the Pocket-Picking Paradigm of Free Exercise,"1996 University of Illinois Law Review 1041
* "A Comprehensive Approach to Orientation and Mentoring for New Faculty,"46 Journal of Legal Education 59 (1996)
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