Kenneth Ayotte

Associate Professor of Law

Phone: (312) 503-1746
E-mail: k-ayotte@law.northwestern.edu

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Professor Ayotte joined the Northwestern Law faculty in 2007. Previously, he was an assistant professor at Columbia Business School, receiving the Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence in 2005. His research interests are in bankruptcy, corporate finance, and the economics of property law and legal entities. His current research projects include an empirical investigation into the impact of creditor control on Chapter 11 outcomes, and a theoretical investigation of optimal legal rules regarding property rights.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Bankruptcy
Corporate Finance

Law and Economics

COURSES

Searle Colloquium: Law and Economics

PUBLICATIONS

Representative Publications

Matching Bankruptcy Laws to Legal Environments, Forthcoming, Journal of Law, Economics and Organization (Co-author: Hayong Yun, University of Notre Dame)
Bankruptcy and Entrepreneurship: The Value of a Fresh Start, Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization Vol. 23 No. 1 Spring 2007
An Efficiency-Based Explanation for Current Corporate Reorganization Practice, University of Chicago Law Review Winter 2006 (Co-author: David A. Skeel, University of Pennsylvania Law School)
Protecting Future Claimants in Mass Tort Bankruptcies, Northwestern Law Review, Summer 2004, Vol. 98, No. 4, pp. 1435-1504 (Co-author: Yair Listokin, Yale Law School)
Optimal Trust Design in Mass Tort Bankruptcy, American Law and Economics Review Vol. 7 No. 2, pp. 403-438 (Co-author: Yair Listokin, Yale Law School)

Recent Publications

Matching Bankruptcy Laws to Legal Environments , 25 JOURNAL OF LAW, ECONOMICS, AND ORGANIZATION 2-30, 2009
Matching Bankruptcy Laws to Legal Environments , 25 JOURNAL OF LAW, ECONOMICS, & ORGANIZATION 2-30, 2009
Creditor Control and Conflict in Chapter 11, 1 JOURNAL OF LEGAL ANALYSIS 511-551, 2009

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EDUCATION

BA, University of Virginia
PhD, Princeton University, Economics