Lynn LoPucki

Levin, Mabie & Levin Professor of Law

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Professor Lynn M. LoPucki came to the University of Florida in August 2022 from the UCLA School of Law where he taught Secured Transactions and Business Associations for twenty-two years. His Stakeholder Takeover Project is an effort to provide corporate stakeholders with the information they need to control corporations through markets. For example, the Project website ranks the S&P 500 companies by their greenhouse gas emissions. The UC Davis Law Review published the first three Project articles, Repurposing the Corporation Through Stakeholder Markets, Corporate Greenhouse Gas Disclosures, and The End of Shareholder Wealth Maximization. The GHG Shopper, a phone app that enables shoppers to take greenhouse gas emissions into account when purchasing groceries—available at ghgshopper.org will provide the basis for the next phase of the Project.

Professor LoPucki has published more than eighty articles in highly regarded law reviews, including the Yale Law Journal, Stanford Law Review, University of Chicago Law Review, University of Michigan Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Virginia Law Review, Cornell Law Review, Duke Law Journal, and Northwestern University Law Review. He co-authors three Aspen Casebooks: Business Associations: A Systems Approach (2nd ed. 2024) (with Andrew Verstein); Secured Transactions: A Systems Approach (10th edition with Elizabeth Warren, Robert M. Lawless, and Pamela Foohey), and Commercial Transactions: A Systems Approach (8th edition with Elizabeth Warren, Daniel L. Keating, Ronald Mann, Robert M. Lawless, and Pamela Foohey).

From 1994 to 2022, the Florida-UCLA-LoPucki Bankruptcy Research Database has collected large, public company bankruptcy data and disseminated it to the public and to bankruptcy researchers throughout the world. Those data provided the foundation for Professor LoPucki’s books, Courting Failure: How Competition for Big Cases is Corrupting the Bankruptcy Courts (University of Michigan Press 2005) and Professional Fees in Corporate Bankruptcies: Data, Analysis, and Evaluation (Oxford University Press, 2011) (with Joseph Doherty). He is working on a new database that will cover the period from 2022 to the present.