David Skeel is the S. Samuel Arsht Professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.  He is author of True Paradox: How Christianity Makes Sense of Our Complex World (InterVarsity, 2014); The New Financial Deal: Understanding the Dodd-Frank Act and its (Unintended) Consequences (Wiley, 2011); Icarus in the Boardroom: The Fundamental Flaws in Corporate America and Where They Came From (Oxford, 2005); Debt's Dominion: A History of Bankruptcy Law in America (Princeton, 2001); and numerous articles on bankruptcy and financial distress, corporate law, Christianity and law, law and literature, and other topics.  His commentary has appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and elsewhere.  He served on the Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico from August 2016 to July 2024, the last three-and-a-half years as chair.