I am a tenured Full Professor at Georgia State University College of Law and the Middle East Studies Center in Atlanta, Georgia. I serve as the Tribal Council Senior Advisor to the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. I am also a Principal and Team Leader in the Restructuring and Complex Litigation Group with Baker Tilly US, LLP. My areas of interest include bankruptcy and business reorganizations, mergers and acquisitions, business valuations in dispute, forensic accounting, commercial law and damages models, corporate finance and capital markets, fraud and anti-corruption, Islamic banking and finance, taxation, public finance, American Indian and Tribal law, and law and statistics.

I am a member of the Board of Advisors of the St. John’s University School of Law LLM Program in Bankruptcy.

I am also a member of the Board of Advisors of the American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI) Law Review. I presently serve as the Association of Insolvency and Restructuring Advisors Scholar in Residence. I also presently serve as a co-chair for the ABI Task Force on Veterans and Servicemembers Affairs.

I have served as the inaugural Robert M. Zinman ABI Scholar in Residence in 2001 and returned to that post in 2008. In 2009, I was recognized by the ABI with its Annual Service Award (2009), honoring the ABI member whose contributions over the past year have been extraordinary. I am a Fellow in the American College of Bankruptcy and a Fellow in the Bankruptcy Policy Institute at St. John’s University School of Law.

I have a BA in Economics from the University of Oklahoma, a JD (High Honors) from the George Washington University National Law Center, and a PhD in Archaeology from the University of Leicester. I presently serve on the Board of the Department of Human Services for the State of Georgia.