Pamela Foohey is the Allen Post 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 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 Law Institute and the American College of Bankruptcy, 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. Prior to joining UGA School of Law, Professor Foohey was on the faculty at the Cardozo School of Law, Indiana University Maurer School of Law, and University of Illinois College of Law.