About David Skeel Books
David Skeel is the author of four books: Debt's Dominion (Princeton University Press, 2001); Icarus in the Boardroom (Oxford University Press, 2005); The New Financial Deal (Wiley, 2011); and True Paradox (InterVarsity Press, 2014). Debt's Dominion, his history of bankruptcy law in America, is considered a classic in the field. Skeel, a chaired professor at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, has taught bankruptcy and other business law classes, with occasional forays into law-and-literature, for thirty-six years. After being appointed as one of the seven members of the Puerto Rico oversight board created by Congress in 2016 in response to Puerto Rico's decade-long financial crisis, Skeel served on the board for nearly eight years, the last three and a half as chair. Under his leadership, the Board achieved the largest public debt restructuring in American history and shored up Puerto Rico's radically underfunded pension system. Skeel lives near Philadelphia.
