Pamela Foohey is the Allen Post Professor of Law at University of Georgia School of Law. She specializes in bankruptcy, commercial law, consumer finance, and business law. She is a co-investigator on the Consumer Bankruptcy Project, a long-term research project studying persons who file bankruptcy.
Professor Foohey most recently published Debt’s Grip: Risk and Consumer Bankruptcy, University of California Press (with Robert M. Lawless and Deborah Thorne), which draws on data from the people who file bankruptcy to tell the story of financial struggle in the United States. Professor Foohey’s other book, Forgive Us Our Debts: How Black Churches Use Bankruptcy to Survive, forthcoming with University of Chicago Press, draws on data from reorganization cases to tell the story of how churches have productively leveraged bankruptcy to save their spiritual homes. She also is a co-author for Secured Transactions: A Systems Approach, a leading textbook on the topic.
Professor Foohey is a member of the American College of Bankruptcy and the American Law Institute, and holds leadership roles in the Association of American Law Schools and the Law & Society Association. She also is an active member of the American Bankruptcy Institute.
