Prof. Laura Coordes
(Professor of Law – Arizona State University)
laura.coordes@asu.edu
rpafdnetwork@gmail.com
RESEARCH TEAM
Laura Coordes’s research focuses on bankruptcy and financial distress and includes commercial law, large corporate reorganizations, international and comparative insolvency law, and local government fi- nance and policy. She teaches Chapter 11 Bankruptcy, Advanced Bankruptcy, Secured Transactions (in-person and online), and Contracts. Professor Coordes is an active member of the American Bankrup– tcy Institute (ABI) and was honored as a member of the ABI’s 40 Under 40 in 2020.
Professor Coordes served on the board of the American Bankruptcy Law Journal from 2019 until 2022 and is an Honorary Master of the Arizona Bankruptcy American Inn of Court. She also serves on the Education Committee for Credit Abuse Resistance Education (CARE). Professor Coordes is currently serving as the Reporter for the Uniform Law Commission’s Drafting Committee on Assignments for the Benefit of Creditors.
With Charles Tabb and Kara Bruce, she is author of The Law of Bankruptcy (6th ed.). She is also a contributor to SLoGLaw Blog and a contributing editor for Bankruptcy Law Letter.
Professor Coordes received her J.D. with honors from The University of Chicago Law School, where she was a Bradley Fellow and served on The University of Chicago Law Review. She completed a legal fellowship at the Student Press Law Center after receiving her degree. Before coming to the College of Law, Professor Coordes practiced in the Business, Finance and Restructuring Department at Weil, Gotshal & Manges in New York.
- J.D. (Honors), University of Chicago Law School 2010
- B.A., summa cum laude, New York University 2006
- Municipal Bankruptcy
- Environmental Liabilities
- Cryptobankruptcies
- Large Corporate Reorganizations
- Access to Bankruptcy
2025
- LN Coordes, Y Marique, G Quinot and E Vaccari, Municipalities in Financial Distress: An Environmental, Social and Governance Critique (EE Publishing, 2025)
2023
- LN Coordes, Y Marique and E Vaccari, ‘Toward a Model Law for the Treatment of Distressed Local Public Entities’ (2023) 98(2) Chicago-Kent L. Rev. 339-360
- LN Coordes, Y Marique and E Vaccari ‘Global Trends in the Treatment of Local Public Entities in Distress: A Principled Approach’ (2023) 32(1) I.I.R. 93-121
- LN Coordes, T Reilly, E Reinisch and D Schlinkert, ‘Uncovering Municipal Fiscal Distress in the United States’ (2023) 21 Public Finance & Management 86
- LN Coordes, ‘Bankruptcy Overload’ (2023) 57 Georgia L. Rev. 1133
2022
- LN Coordes and A Cohen, Article 9 Plainly Stated (West Academic, 2022)
- LN Coordes, Y Marique and E Vaccari, When Liquidation is Not an Option: A Global Study on the Treatment of Local Public Entities in Distress (INSOL International, 2022)
- LN Coordes, Y Marique and E Vaccari, ‘Collectivity and Equality (Pari Passu) in the Treatment of Local Public Entities in Distress’ in LN Coordes, Y Marique and E Vaccari, When Liquidation is Not an Option: A Global Study on the Treatment of Local Public Entities in Distress (Insol International, 2022) 1-34
2021
- LN Coordes, ‘Reviewing Redwater: An Analysis of the U.S. and Canadian Approaches to Environmental Obligations in Bankruptcy’ (2021) 64 Canadian Bus. L.J. 151
2020
- LN Coordes, ‘Necessity or Overreach? Weighing the Costs and Benefits of State Law Interpretation in Oil and Gas Bankruptcy Cases’ (2020) 6 Oil & Gas, Nat. Resources & Energy J. 1
2017
- LN Coordes, ‘Gatekeepers Gone Wrong: Reforming the Chapter 9 Eligibility Rules’ (2017) 94 Wash. U.L. Rev. 1191
Discover the other team members
Prof. Laura N Coordes
(Professor of Law – Arizona State University)
Prof. Emanuele Padovani
(Professor of Management – University of Bologna)
Dr. André Lino
(Lecturer in Accounting – University of Essex)
Prof. Geo Quinot
(Professor of Law – Stellenbosch University)
Prof. Yseult Marique
(Professor of Law – University of Essex)
Dr. Eugenio Vaccari
(Senior Lecturer in Law – Royal Holloway, University of London)