About Us

Joel A. Feuer is Executive Director of the Lowell Milken Institute for Business Law and Policy at UCLA School of Law. A partner at Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher LLP since 1989, Feuer has handled a broad range of complex business law matters and has regularly counseled corporations and their directors and officers on corporate governance matters and transactions. He served as co-chair of the litigation department for Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher's Los Angeles and Century City offices and as one of the leaders of the firm's securities litigation practice group.

Lynn M. LoPucki is a Levin, Mabie & Levin Professor of Law at the University of Florida College of Law. LoPucki has done big-bankruptcy empirical research since 1984 and founded the Bankruptcy Research Database in 1994. His early research with William C. Whitford was funded by the National Science Foundation and published in the Penn, Wisconsin, and Cornell law reviews. He is the author of Courting Failure: How Competition for Big Cases Is Corrupting the Bankruptcy Courts (Michigan 2005) and Professional Fees in Corporate Bankruptcies: Data, Analysis, and Evaluation (with Joseph W. Doherty), (Oxford 2011). His most recent bankruptcy article, Chapter 11’s Descent into Lawlessness was published in the American Bankruptcy Law Journal in June 2022.

Benjamin Nyblade is the Director of the Empirical Research Group (ERG) at UCLA School of Law, where he works with faculty to conceptualize, design and execute empirical research across a broad range of legal fields. Nyblade earned his B.A. with Highest Honors in Politics and East Asian Studies from Oberlin College and his Ph.D. in Political Science from UC San Diego. Before arriving at UCLA School of Law, he was faculty at the University of British Columbia and an adjunct political scientist with the RAND Corporation. His research has appeared in many top political science journals, including the American Journal of Political Science, American Political Science Review, British Journal of Political Science and International Studies Quarterly.