Mary Jo Wiggins
Associate Dean and
Professor of Law
B.A. 1984, Smith College; J.D. 1987, University of Michigan
Professor Wiggins was notes editor of the Michigan Law Review and practiced law in Indianapolis before joining the faculty in 1990. She writes and teaches in the areas of property, bankruptcy, debtor-creditor law and legal theory. She is the author of numerous articles and book chapters on these topics and she is an elected member of the American Law Institute. Among her many articles are "Conservative Economics and Optimal Consumer Bankruptcy Policy," Theoretical Inquiries and "Race, Class, and Suburbia: The Modern Black Suburb as a Race-Making Situation," The University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform. Professor Wiggins frequently consults with private and public entities on bankruptcy and insolvency matters. In 2006
and 2007, she served as an expert consultant for the RAND Corporation on research involving the operation of the U.S. bankruptcy system. In 1998, Professor Wiggins was appointed by then United States Supreme Court Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist to the United States Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on the Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure where she served two consecutive terms. Professor Wiggins is a contributing author to Collier on Bankruptcy, the leading scholarly treatise in the field. |
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