Education:
J.D., Yale Law School
A.B., University of Chicago
A.M., University of Chicago

Professor Mendales is a visiting professor of law at Penn State Dickinson. He teaches Sales and Leases, Business Organizations and Contracts. After graduating from Yale Law School, he became an associate at Cravath, Swaine & Moore and later joined Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. His practice experience includes mergers and acquisitions, securities regulation, antitrust, intellectual property, corporate bankruptcy and debt management.

Professor Mendales was a Supreme Court Fellow in 1999-2000 and also won a Barnard Prize in History and a Ford Fellowship at the University of Chicago. He has published extensively on securities regulation, bankruptcy and corporate reorganization.

Professor Mendales has been a professor of law at the University of Miami School of Law in Florida , where he received a Golden Apple Award for his service to the institution. He was recently of counsel to Crowell & Moring, LLP and a visiting professor of law at Widener University School of Law.

Contact Information:
Email: rem36@psu.edu
Phone: (814) 867-0395

Selected Publications:
“Intensive Care for the Public Corporation: Corporate Governance, Securities Law, and the Reorganization Process,” Marquette Law Review, 2008

“Rethinking Exemptions in Bankruptcy,” 40 Boston College Law Review 851-77 (1999)

“USA Report,” in Rescues of Companies , 451-66 (Winfried F. Schmitz, et. al., eds. AIJA Library, Kluwer Law International, Ltd., 1998).

“Looking Under the Rock: The Disclosure of Bankruptcy Issues Under the Securities Laws,” 57 Ohio State Law Journal 731-807 (1996); reprinted in full, 29 Securities Law Review 129 (1997).