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William Organek is an Assistant Professor of Law at the Zicklin School of Business, and is the Managing Editor of the Harvard Law School Bankruptcy Roundtable. His research investigates bankruptcy’s operation as a system of public law regulation and private law ordering. His scholarship develops case studies with a blend of empirical analysis and insights from law and economics. His work also draws on his nearly ten years of legal practice and real estate business experience. His articles have been or are forthcoming in major law reviews and he has been featured on several podcasts of legal scholarship.
Prior to joining the Zicklin faculty, William was a Program Fellow with the Bankruptcy Project at Harvard Law School. Before that, he practiced law in the New York offices of two major international law firms, and he clerked for Judge Michael Wiles on the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York. Earlier in his career, he started a real estate business in China and lived in Shanghai for more than two years. He holds a J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School, and a B.A. in Economics-Philosophy from Columbia University.
Education
J.D., Law, Harvard Law School Cambridge United States
B.A., Economics-Philosophy, Columbia University New York United States
Semester | Course Prefix | Course Number | Course Name |
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Fall 2023 | LAW | 1101 | Fundamentals of Business Law |
Law Reviews
Organek, W. (2024). Mass Tort Bankruptcy Goes Public (No.3). Vanderbilt Law Review.
Organek, W. (2024). Up in Smoke: Bankruptcy Contracting in the Legal Cannabis Industry In Progress.
Organek, W. (2022). "A Bitter Result": Purdue Pharma, a Sackler Bankruptcy Filing, and Improving Monetary and Nonmonetary Recoveries in Mass Tort Bankruptcies (No.2). American Bankruptcy Law Journal.
Media Contributions
Organek, W. (2023). [Texas Two-Step and the Future of Mass Tort Bankruptcy Series] The Dismissal of LTL and What Lies Ahead for Mass Tort Bankruptcy.
Organek, W., & Roe, M. (2022). [Texas Two-Step and the Future of Mass Tort Bankruptcy Series] The Texas Two-Step: The Code Says it's a Transfer.
Post on Harvard Law School Bankruptcy Roundtable
Honor / Award | Organization Sponsor | Date Received | Description |
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Kohn-Kidwell Fellow | Temple University Beasley School of Law | 2023-04-03 | Named a Kohn-Kidwell Fellow in connection with attendance at the "Contract Law in Action: COVID and the Casebook" conference. |
Program Fellow, Bankruptcy Project | Harvard Law School | 2021-07-01 | Named a Program Fellow with the Bankruptcy Project at Harvard Law School |
Professional
Organization | Position Role | Organization State | Organization Country | Start Date | End Date | Audience |
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Law Department Faculty Research Workshop | Workshop Organizer | 1/22/2024 | Present | Local |