Prof Pamela Foohey

University of Minnesota professor enters Hennepin County attorney race as ‘innovator’ candidate Francis Shen has focused his career on researching the intersection of neuroscience and the law and wants to bring “21st century” prosecution to Hennepin County.

Grateful for the Star Tribune coverage. Our message is simple: every neighborhood deserves to feel safe, and we’re ready to do the work.
#ShenForSafety
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A very excellent download of the week!

Thank you, Ed Boltz, for a very generous reading of my essay reviewing "Debt's Grip" by @proffoohey.bsky.social, @boblawless.bsky.social, and Deb Thorne. ncbankruptcyexpert.com/2025/12/02/l...

My new post about Adrienne Hines's book, Bankruptcy Magic, and how it might help encourage the people who will benefit from filing bankruptcy to file bankruptcy. Link to her book, www.theladylikelawyer.com/bankruptcy-m...

I'm on an airplane now! On my way to University of Illinois Law! See you soon @chrisodinet.bsky.social and @boblawless.bsky.social!

theladylikelawyer on Instagram: "It feels so good to be in the midst of people who are like-minded! @nacbaorg #pamelafoohey #debtreliefwithdignity #freshstart #fina…" It feels so good to be in the midst of people who are like-minded! @nacbaorg #pamelafoohey #debtreliefwithdignity #freshstart #financialliteracy #stopsuffering

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Less than two weeks until the Financial Precarity in the United States conference, which dovetails with the publication of Debt's Grip: Risk and Consumer Bankruptcy, at @ugaschooloflaw.bsky.social. Message me for details. Learn more here: www.law.uga.edu/financial-pr...

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Debt's Grip

On Aug 15, @bji.bsky.social hosted a book event for Debt's Grip. Judge Erithe Smith led a discussion about the book with me and my co-authors, @boblawless.bsky.social and Debb Thorne. We talked about themes and presented some key data. Recording now available! www.law.berkeley.edu/research/bji...

I'm off to the Chicago-Wharton-Harvard Insolvency & Restructuring Conference. Looking forward to geeking out about bankruptcy law soon!

Debt's Grip by Pamela Foohey, Robert Lawless, Deborah Thorne - Paper Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

Through people's experiences, we highlight particularly problematic issues in their lives, particularly problematic credit products, and particularly vulnerable populations. We wrote the book to be accessible to everyone--nonlawyers and lawyers. Find more on UC Press: www.ucpress.edu/books/debts-...

Data comes from the Consumer Bankruptcy Project, consumerbankruptcyproject.org.
Using the bankruptcy filers' own words, the book details the privations and struggles they suffer in the years leading up to their decisions to file bankruptcy.

Official release date for Debt's Grip: Risk and Consumer Bankruptcy, from University of California Press!! In it, @boblawless.bsky.social, Deborah Thorne, and I draw on 11 years of court records and surveys from bankruptcy filers to describe what it means to live in financial precarity in the US.

Listing to be posted soon. please direct letters of interest and cv/resume to lawhiring@uga.edu. (2/2)

UGA School of Law is hiring professors! Open rank search, 4-5 positions. Priorities: torts, contracts, property, environmental, bankruptcy, secured transactions. Other: international, banking, business, administrative, employment. Teaching in more than one listed discipline especially helpful. (1/2)

It also addresses how these issues intersect with demographic skews of bankruptcy filers (Black households, single women, and older Americans).

The book draws on data about the people who file bankruptcy to illustrate what it means to live in financial precarity in the US. It focuses on homes and mortgages, cars and auto loans, medical expenses and health care, education and students loans, the changing nature of work, and debt collection.

Debt's Grip by Pamela Foohey, Robert Lawless, Deborah Thorne - Paper Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

In two months, on August 5, my new co-authored book, Debt's Grip: Risk and Consumer Bankruptcy, published by University of California Press, will be out! (Co-authored with @boblawless.bsky.social and Deborah Thorne, University of Idaho.) More about the book here: www.ucpress.edu/books/debts-...

Law Professors! Attending AALS 2026? Are you publishing (in 2025/2026) a book that is based on data you collected via a social science empirical technique? Think about submitting to this call for proposals for the book panel organized by Law and the Social Sciences Section. Email me if you have Qs.

I'm SO EXCITED to become part of Minnesota Law (in a year)! And I'm grateful to have one more year at UGA Law to finish some really great empirical research about debt collection and enjoy the company of my excellent colleagues there. MN is where I started my career (post-clerking); I'm coming back!

Great to be part of this colloquium and to have the chance to engage with @trangmae.bsky.social's work!

The ACA was momentous! We need to continue to fight for change!

Bob Lawless sums up the quote by Lawrence A. Friedman in Bloomberg Law's reporting on Tara Twomey's (almost certainly illegal) firing as the executive director of the U.S. Trustee Program aptly -- appalling. Read the post for more about Twomey's exceptional record.

Virtual Access to Event in Memory of Juliet Moringiello March 20 2025 www.creditslips.org/creditslips/...

The Trump Administration has fired another effective and dedicated public servant.

Juliet Moringiello - One of the Greats (via @creditslipsblog.bsky.social)
Such a wonderful person and scholar. I will miss her so much.
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Are you at UGA Law today??

Wait, I can simply switch between my personal account and the Credit Slips account. I don't need to logout and login? This is already better than the Bad Place. And, yes, for those of you in the field, we now have a blog account as well. Stay tuned.

Credit Slips, the blog, is now on Bluesky! This is the account run by the Slipsters. @creditslipsblog.bsky.social

Non-Bankruptcy Law in Bankruptcy Courts - Credit Slips - www.creditslips.org/creditslips/...