Anthony J. Casey is an American legal scholar who is currently the Donald M. Ephraim Professor of Law and Economics at the

University of Chicago Law School The University of Chicago Law School is the law school of the University of Chicago, a private research university in Chicago, Illinois. It is consistently ranked among the best and most prestigious law schools in the world, and has many dist ...

. He is an expert on business law and bankruptcy law. In 2020, Casey was appointed as deputy dean of the law school.

Life and career

Casey graduated from

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with an

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''magna cum laude'' in 1999, majoring in economics and political theory. He was a member of

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. In 2002, he graduated with a

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''magna cum laude'' from the

, where he won the John M. Olin Prize for the Outstanding Student in Law and Economics and was a member of the

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and the ''

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''. After graduating from law school, Casey clerked for Judge

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on the

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. Between 2004 and 2006, he worked at

Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz is an American law firm in New York City. The firm is known for corporate law, regularly handling large and complex transactions. On both a profit per lawyer, and profit per equity partner basis, it is the most p ...

before moving to Kirkland & Ellis in

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, where he made partner in 2008. Casey joined the faculty at the University of Chicago Law School as a Bigelow Fellow and Lecturer in Law in 2009. In 2016, he was appointed a professor of law. His research focuses on the intersection of finance and law, and he has co-written a casebook on bankruptcy law. Casey teaches courses and seminars in corporate governance, business law, bankruptcy and reorganization, finance, litigation strategy, civil procedure, and law and technology. In 2020, he was a visiting professor at

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References

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