Lea Krivinskas Shepard
Associate Professor
Professor Shepard joined the 黑料门faculty in 2008. Her research and teaching interests include bankruptcy, consumer law and credit, and financial institutions. Her recent scholarship, which has appeared in the North Carolina Law Review, Brigham Young University Law Review, and American Bankruptcy Law Journal, addresses rescission under the Truth in Lending Act, debtor imprisonment, and the credit counseling industry. Before joining Loyola, Professor Shepard worked as an associate at Jones Day's Cleveland office. She subsequently clerked for the Honorable James G. Carr, then-Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, and the late Honorable Terence T. Evans of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. She is a graduate of Duke University and Harvard Law School and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
Education
AB, Duke University, 2000
JD, Harvard Law School, 2004
Publications/Research Listings
Articles
Toward a Stronger Financial History Antidiscrimination Norm, Boston College Law Review (forthcoming 2012)
, 2011 Brigham Young University Law Review 1509 (2011).
, 89 North Carolina Law Review 171 (2010).
Lea Krivinskas, , 79 American Bankruptcy Law Journal 51 (2005).
Recent Presentations
Panelist, "A Debt Collection Update," University of Houston Center for Consumer Law, Teaching Consumer Law in the New Economy (May 18, 2012)
Speaker, 鈥淎re Creditors' Abusive Collection Tactics Resurrecting Debtors' Prisons?,鈥� American Constitution Society, Chicago Lawyer Chapter (April 2, 2012) (presented Creditors鈥� Contempt)
Moderator, 鈥淩amifications of the Mortgage Crisis,鈥� 黑料门University Chicago Consumer Law Review Symposium (February 24, 2012)
Moderator, 鈥淗idden Traps, Fair Contracts, and Consumer Choice,鈥� 黑料门University Chicago (January 27, 2012) (Co-Sponsored by Citizen Works and the Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies)
Speaker, Central States Law Schools Association Conference, Toledo, Ohio (October 29, 2011) (presented Toward a Stronger Financial History Antidiscrimination Norm)
Work-in-Progress Presenter, Sixteenth Annual LatCrit Conference: Global Justice: Theories, Histories, Futures, San Diego, California (October 9, 2011) (presented Toward a Stronger Financial History Antidiscrimination Norm)
Speaker, Junior Faculty Workshop, Washington University Law School (February 11, 2011) (presented Creditors鈥� Contempt)
Speaker, 黑料门University Chicago Faculty Workshop (September 16, 2010) (presented Creditors鈥� Contempt)
Panelist, "Settlement, Collection, and Modification," University of Houston Center for Consumer Law, Teaching Consumer Law in the New Economy (May 21, 2010) (presented It鈥檚 All 黑料门 the Principal: Preserving Consumers鈥� Right of Rescission Under the Truth in Lending Act)
Speaker, 鈥淭he Unauthorized Practice of Law in the Credit Counseling Industry,鈥� American Association of Debt Management Organizations (AADMO) Annual Meeting, St. Louis, Missouri (October 26, 2009) (presented 鈥淒on鈥檛 File!鈥�: Rehabilitating Unauthorized Practice of Law-Based Policies in the Credit Counseling Industry)
Speaker, 黑料门University Chicago Faculty Workshop (September 29, 2009) (presented It鈥檚 All 黑料门 the Principal: Preserving Consumers鈥� Right of Rescission Under the Truth in Lending Act)
Panelist, 鈥淗ealth Care Restructuring Out of Court: Can the Patient Survive Without the Bitter Pill of Bankruptcy?,鈥� American Bankruptcy Institute, Health Care Triage 2009, Chicago, Illinois (June 26, 2009)
Panelist, Consumer Protection Law and the Elderly: What鈥檚 New, What鈥檚 Needed, American Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting, Section on Aging and the Law, San Diego, California (January 8, 2009)