Education:
J.D., University of Illinois, College of Law
B.A., Economics, University of Illinois, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Professor Marie T. Reilly is a scholar and teacher of bankruptcy, commercial law and contracts. She is an expert on fraudulent transfer law and has published articles on a variety of topics including corporate successor liability, check kiting, sexual harassment and the holder in due course rule. Before joining the Penn State Dickinson faculty in Fall 2006, Professor Reilly was a member of the faculty of University of South Carolina School of Law. She taught courses on bankruptcy, payment systems, secured transactions, sales and contracts. She also served as faculty advisor to the South Carolina Law Review, the Entertainment and Sports Law Society, and the University of South Carolina’s Bankruptcy Moot Court Team. Before becoming a law teacher in 1991, Professor Reilly practiced law in Chicago, Illinois and Washington, D.C.

Professor Reilly is an elected member of the American Law Institute. She is a member of the Executive Committee of the Association of American Law Schools Section on Bankruptcy, and a member of the American Law and Economics Association, the American Bankruptcy Institute and the American Bar Association.

Contact Information:
E-mail: mtr12@psu.edu
Phone: (814) 863-7033
Principal Office: University Park

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Selected Publications:
“In Good Times and in Debt: The Evolution of Marital Agency and the Meaning of Marriage,” Nebraska Law Review, 2008.

“You and Me Against the World: Marriage and Divorce From Creditors’ Perspective” in Reconceiving the Family: Critical Reflections on the American Law Institute’s Principles of the Law of Family Dissolution, Robin Fretwell Wilson ed., (2006).

“A Search for Reason in ‘Reasonably Equivalent Value’ After BFP v. Resolution Trust Corp.,” 13 American Bankruptcy Institute Law Review 261 (2005).

“What Goes Up Must Come Down: Check Kiting, the UCC, and the Trustee’s Avoiding Powers,” 77 American Bankruptcy Law Journal 333 (2004).

“Making Sense of Successor Liability,” 31 Hofstra Law Review 745 (2003).

“The Federal Interest in the Transfer of Patent Licenses in Bankruptcy,” 10 Journal of Bankruptcy Law & Practice 3 (2000).

“The Wasted Sacrifice of Lessors’ Lost Profit Claims in Bankruptcy,” 60 Louisiana Law Review 233 (1999).

“The Latent Efficiency of Fraudulent Transfer Law,” 57 Louisiana Law Review 1213 (1997).

“Sex and Reason by Richard Posner,” 25 Archives of Sexual Behavior (book review) (1996).

“A Paradigm for Sexual Harassment: Toward the Optimal Level of Loss,” 47 Vanderbilt Law Review 427 (1994).

“The FDIC as Holder in Due Course: Some Law and Economics,” 2 Columbia Business Law Review 165 (1992).