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4 Min Read (Reuters) - Retired U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Cornelius Blackshear, who was involved in notable Chapter 11 cases from Pan Am to Johns Manville, died on June 10 following a stroke-related illness. He was 81. REUTERS/Chip East Before sitting on the Southern District of New York bankruptcy bench from 1985 until 2005, Blackshear worked for the U.S. Department of Justice’s bankruptcy watchdog, the U.S. Trustee Program. In 1983 he became the first Black U.S. Trustee, according to a statement from Fordham Law School, where he earned his law degree and later taught. Blackshear represented the U.S. Trustee program in the 1982 case of manufacturer Johns-Manville, the largest company to ever seek bankruptcy at that time. That case, prompted by thousands of lawsuits alleging asbestos-related illnesses, made history for resolving the asbestos claims through the creation of a $2.5 billion trust to pay out victims. ....
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2021 JOHN MARSHALL FELLOWS Phil Axt is a litigation associate with the Dallas office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. Before joining Gibson Dunn, Phil clerked for the Honorable Jennifer Walker Elrod on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. He holds a J.D. from Yale Law School, where he was President of the Veteran’s Association, Executive Vice President of the Federalist Society chapter, and Managing Editor of the Yale Journal of Law & Technology. He also holds a B.S. in Economics from the U. S. Military Academy at West Point, where he graduated as a Distinguished Cadet. Prior to law school, Phil was a Captain in the U.S. Army. ....
Lucy Williams is a law professor at Northeastern University, faculty director of its Center for Public Interest Advocacy and Collaboration, and co-director of its Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy. Her activism and scholarship have focused on domestic and global inequality. She founded and has coordinated for 15 years the International Social and Economic Rights Project, a group of academics, judges and activists primarily from the Global South working to encourage transformative thinking about social and economic rights. Domingo Lovera-Parmo Domingo Lovera-Parmo is an Associate professor of Law at Universidad Diego Portales (Chile). Ll.M. Columbia University (2007), Ph.D. Osgoode Hall Law School (2016). His research focuses on ....