Angela K Littwin
- Ronald D. Krist Professor in Law
Faculty Profile: Angela K Littwin
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Professor Littwin studies bankruptcy, consumer, and commercial law from an empirical perspective. Her current research includes studying the attitudes towards bankruptcy among consumers being sued by debt collectors, bankruptcy local legal culture, as well as the relationship between consumer credit and domestic violence (DV). She has published in journals such as the Texas Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, California Law Review, and American Bankruptcy Law Journal. She has recently published articles about racial disparities in bankruptcy chapter use, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's complaints process and supervision program as well as on how consumer bankruptcy attorneys adapted to the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act. Professor Littwin has been a principal investigator for a number of empirical projects. With collaborator Adrienne Adam of Michigan State University, Professor Littwin has received funding from the National Science Foundation to study debt and domestic violence. She is working with Professor Pamela Foohey at Indiana University Maurer School of Law to study financially-distressed consumers’ knowledge of and feelings about bankruptcy and with Professor Bob Lawless at the University of Illinois to study local legal culture in consumer bankruptcy.
Professor Littwin received her undergraduate degree from Brown University and graduated from Harvard Law School in 2002. After law school, she clerked for the Honorable Rosemary Barkett of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and founded ROAD (Reaching Out About Depression), a community-organizing project for low-income women. Prior to her appointment at the University of Texas School of Law, she was a Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School. She joined the UT faculty in 2008.
Professor Littwin teaches bankruptcy, secured credit, and a seminar on the regulation of credit cards.
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2021
March 2020
Discussant: Berkeley Center for Consumer Law and Economic Justice Academic Conference
2019
April 2019
Keynote Speaker: Central District of North Carolina Bankruptcy Bar CLE
Presented The Frequency, Nature, and Effects of Coerced Debt and Local Legal Culture from R2D2 to Big Data.
2014
November 21, 2014
Young Bankruptcy Scholars' Work-in-Progress Workshop
Brooklyn Law School
Presented An Initial Quantitative Look at Coerced Debt (co-authored with Adrienne Adams). Hosted by American Bankruptcy Institute and Brooklyn Law School.
November 20, 2014
Jay L. Westbrook Bankruptcy Conference
Four Seasons Hotel, Austin, TX
Presented Recent Developments in Student Loans.
October 24, 2014
The (Un)quiet Realist: Building and Reflecting on the Contributions of Bill Whitford / Temple Law Review Symposium
Temple University Beasley School of Law
Presented draft of Why Process Consumer Complaints? Then and Now.
September 24, 2014
Texas Council on Family Violence Statewide Conference
The Tremont House, Galveston, TX
Invited to present recent coerced debt research findings to audience of domestic violence advocates and attorneys. Presented with Adrienne Adams.
September 4, 2014
South Carolina Legal Services Webinar
Created and presented three-hour webinar for consumer and family attorneys at South Carolina Legal Services. With Adrienne Adams.
July 31, 2014
Created Video for South Carolina Legal Services' American College of Bankruptcy Video Series
Drafted and presented script for 15-minute coerced debt video for domestic violence victims.
June 27, 2014
Texas Council on Family Violence Economic Justice Summit
The Mills Building, El Paso, TX
Invited to present recent coerced debt research findings to audience of domestic violence advocates. Presented with Adrienne Adams.
April 24, 2014
Poverty Law Conference, State Bar of Texas
DoubleTree Hotel Austin, TX
Holistic Advocacy for the Long Term Stability of Domestic Violence Survivors. Invited to present at CLE session. Presented with Krista DelGallo, Policy Manager, Texas Council on Family Violence (TCFV) and Carla Sanchez-Adams, Staff Attorney, Texas Rio-Grande Legal Services. Housing & Consumer Law Task Force Meeting. Invited to present coerced debt research findings for local consumer and housing attorneys. Presented with Krista DelGallo, Policy Manager, TCFV.
2013
November 22, 2013
Jay L. Westbrook Bankruptcy Conference
Four Seasons Hotel, Austin, TX
Invited to present on Recent Developments Panel and presented Recent Developments in Empirical Consumer Bankruptcy Scholarship.
February 8, 2013
Annual Review of Insolvency Law Conference
PALAIS DES CONGRÈS DE MONTRÉAL, Montreal, Canada
Invited to present Escaping Battered Credit: A Proposal for Repairing Credit Reports Damaged by Domestic Violence.
2012
November 9, 2012
Jay L. Westbrook Bankruptcy Conference
Four Seasons Hotel, Austin, TX
Presented Escaping Battered Credit: A Proposal for Repairing Credit Reports Damaged by Domestic Violence.
April 29, 2012
National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys Annual Convention
San Antonio, Texas
Invited to present The Affordability Paradox: How Consumer Bankruptcy’s Greatest Weakness May Account for its Surprising Success.
2011
December 6, 2011
Conference on Empirical Legal Studies
Northwestern University School of Law
Selected through peer review to present Coerced Debt: The Role of Domestic Violence in Consumer Credit.
2010
May 22, 2010
Teaching Consumer Law
University of Houston Law Center, Center for Consumer Law
Invited to present on panel entitled The Consumer Debt/Credit Crisis.
2009
September 30, 2009
National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges’ American Bar Association Panel
Paris Hotel, Las Vegas
Invited to present on panel entitled Effectively Assisting Pro Se Filers - A View from the Bench.
March 31, 2009
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, Community Affairs Research Conference
Innovative Financial Services for the Underserved: Opportunities and Outcomes
Selected to present Beyond Usury: A Study of Credit Card Use and Preference Among Low-Income Consumers.
February 28, 2009
University of Texas-Harvard Joint Conference on Commercial Law Realities
University of Texas School of Law
Selected to present research from the Consumer Bankruptcy Project at invitation-only conference for junior scholars in commercial law.
2008
January 31, 2008
University of Texas-Harvard Joint Conference on Commercial Law Realities
Harvard Law School
Selected to present an overview of the Bankruptcy Internet Data Project at invitation-only conference for junior scholars in commercial law. Hosted jointly by Harvard Law School and University of Texas Law School.
2007
June 30, 2007
Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association
Berlin, Germany
Presented Beyond Usury: A Study of Credit Card Use and Preference Among Low-Income Consumers at Humboldt University, Berlin.
March 31, 2007
University of Texas-Harvard Joint Conference on Commercial Law Realities
University of Texas School of Law
Selected to present Testing the Substitution Hypothesis: Would Credit Card Regulation Force Low-Income Borrowers Into Less Desirable Lending Alternatives? at invitation-only conference for junior scholars in commercial law.
2006
September 30, 2006
Award
American Bankruptcy Law Journal Fellow
Competitively selected as an American Bankruptcy Law Journal Fellow by the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges. Attended the Annual Meeting of the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges as the Judges' guest.