Professor Nathalie Martin is the Frederick M. Hart Chair in Consumer and
Clinical Law at University of New Mexico School of Law, where she regularly
teaches consumer law, bankruptcy, contracts, secured transactions, and other
UCC classes. She also has taught in the Economic Justice Clinic. She has
written a number of articles about payday and title loans and many other
topics, which are listed at https://lawschool.unm.edu/faculty/martin/.
She has done two empirical studies of payday lending, as well as one study
of the credit habits of undocumented persons in New Mexico. Her current
research involves tribal payday lending in the context of bankruptcy. She
has also recently written on debt inequality and race. 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. She is also
a member of the American Law Institute and a fellow of the American College
of Bankruptcy. The endowed chair she occupies, the Frederick M. Hart Chair in
Consumer and Clinical Law, is one of the only chairs in the country dedicated
to scholarly pursuits in the consumer law area.
Professional Affiliations
- American Law Institute
- American College of Bankruptcy
- Association of American Law Schools