Michael Francus

Michael Francus teaches and writes about bankruptcy law. His scholarship focuses on the use of legal entity structures in bankruptcy and how they can be better designed to address insolvency, both for government entities and corporate ones.

Francus is a graduate of Stanford Law School, where he served as an articles editor on the Stanford Law Review. After law school, he clerked for Judge Stephanos Bibas of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He also practiced as an associate at Kirkland & Ellis, where he focused on commercial and appellate litigation. Before law school, he earned his B.A. from the University of Chicago, where he graduated with honors in philosophy and political science.

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