Pamela Foohey

Pamela Foohey is a Professor of Law at University of Georgia School of Law. She specializes in bankruptcy, commercial law, consumer finance, and business law. Her work primarily involves empirical studies of bankruptcy and related parts of the legal system. She is a co-investigator on the Consumer Bankruptcy Project, a long-term research project studying persons who file bankruptcy. Her work in business bankruptcy focuses on how non-profit entities, particularly churches, use reorganization. Her two in-progress book projects, forthcoming with University of California Press and University of Chicago Press, draw on data from these two research projects. She also is a co-author for Secured Transactions: A Systems Approach, a leading textbook on the topic.

Professor Foohey is a member of the American College of Bankruptcy and the American Law Institute, holds leadership roles in the Association of American Law Schools and the Law & Society Association, and served a three-year appointment to the editorial advisory board of the American Bankruptcy Law Journal. She is an active member of the American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI), and has served as part of the ABI Diversity Working Group since its formation. In 2019, the ABI named her a “40 Under 40” Emerging Leader in Insolvency Practice. 

Professor Foohey joined UGA School of Law in 2024 from the Cardozo School of Law. She previously taught at Indiana University Maurer School of Law and University of Illinois College of Law. Prior to teaching, she clerked for the Honorable Thomas L. Ambro of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, worked as an associate in the Bankruptcy and Financial Restructuring Group of Dorsey & Whitney LLP in Minneapolis, and clerked for the Honorable Peter J. Walsh of the Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware.