Angela K. Littwin

Professor Littwin coined the term “coerced debt” to describe debt generated by domestic violence and is currently publishing articles from a major research project on it, funded by the National Science Foundation. Other recent writing and research focuses on reversing the hollowing out of the U.S. middle class and attitudes about bankruptcy among financially-distressed consumers. She has published in leading journals such as the Texas Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, California Law Review, American Bankruptcy Law Journal, and peer-reviewed journals focused on domestic violence.

Professor Littwin has testified several times before the Texas Senate and House of Representatives. She regularly provides expertise to groups across the country who are developing and passing laws addressing coerced debt. She has been featured in pieces in news outlets ranging from U.S.A. Today to National Public Radio.

Professor Littwin coedits the Comprehensive Commercial Law and Bankruptcy & Article 9 Statutory Supplements for Aspen Publishing and is a co-author on the upcoming Ninth Edition of the Law of Debtors and Creditors (Aspen) with Elizabeth Warren, Jay Lawrence Westbrook, John A.E. Pottow, Katie Porter, and Pamela Foohey.

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.