Professor Ingrid Michelsen Hillinger is a professor of law at Boston College Law School where she teaches a variety of commercial law/bankruptcy courses including Business Bankruptcy, Consumer Bankruptcy, and Secured Transactions. She is a co-editor of Chapter 11 Theory & Practice: A Guide to Reorganization, a multi-volume bankruptcy treatise which is continually updated to reflect new developments in this dynamic area of the law. She is co-author of an Article 9 case book, Commercial Transactions: Secured Financing: Cases, Materials & Problems, which adopts a problem-solving approach to teaching transactional law.

Professor Hillinger has taught at a variety of schools during her 20-year teaching career - William & Mary, the University of Texas at Austin, Emory University, Northeastern University School of Law and the University of Connecticut School of Law. While at William & Mary, she received an Outstanding Teacher Award from the Virginia Council on Higher Education.

EDUCATION

A.B., Barnard College; J.D., College of William & Mary.

RECENT ACTIVITIES

Work in Progress: "The Attorney-Client Privilege in Bankruptcy: It's Not Looking Good" and "The Eleventh Circuit Sinks Whiting Pools: In re Lewis."

Presentations: "Landlord and Tenant" and "Intersection of Revised Article 9 of the UCC with Bankruptcy Code," at the Thirty-first Annual Seminar on Bankruptcy Law and Rules sponsored by the Southeastern Bankruptcy Law Institute, Atlanta, Georgia, in April 2005.

Activities: Participated in the "Symposium on the Future of Chapter 11" presented by the American College of Bankruptcy and the Boston College Law Review at BC Law in April 2005.

Appointments: Appointed to the Joint Bankruptcy Court/Boston Bar Association Task Force on Literacy for Students. Inducted into the American College of Bankruptcy.

Promotions: Promoted to full professor in March.

Other: Recipient of a University Distinguished Teaching Award at Boston College Faculty Day in May. Visiting professor at the University of Connecticut School of Law, Storrs, Connecticut, for the fall 2001 semester, and at Northeastern University Law School, Boston, Massachusetts, for the spring 2002 semester.

COURSES

Fall '07: Commercial Law: Security Transactions; U.C.C. Reporter Digest; Contracts
Spring '08: Business Bankruptcy; U.C.C. Reporter Digest

PUBLICATIONS

• With Michael Hillinger. "The Story of YMPs (Yield Maintenance Premiums) in Bankruptcy." DePaul Business and Commercial Law Journal 3, no.3 (2005): 449-488.
• "Introduction to The Future of Chapter 11: A Symposium Cosponsored by the American College of Bankruptcy." Boston College Law Review 47: no.1 (December 2005): 1-3.
• "Latest Developments in Article 9." Depaul Business and Commercial Law Journal 2 (2004): 675-690.
• With Michael Hillinger. “Environmental Affairs in Bankruptcy.” American Bankruptcy Institute Law Review 12: no. 2 (2004): 331-420.
• With Raymond T. Nimmer and Michael G. Hillinger. Commercial Transactions: Secured Financing: Cases, Materials, Problems. 3rd ed. Newark, NJ : LexisNexis, 2003. (Accompanied by Commercial Transactions: Secured Financing: Cases, Materials, Problems, 3rd ed. Teacher's Manual, by Nimmer, Hillinger and Hillinger. Newark, NJ: LexisNexis, 2003)
• With David Line Batty and Richard K. Brown. "Deposit Accounts Under the New World Order." North Carolina Banking Institute 6 (April 2002): 1-72.
• "John Levy -- Friend, Mentor and Inspiration." William and Mary Law Review 43 (October 2001): xiii-xviii.
• With Michael G. Hillinger and Diane N. Rallis. "Consumer Protection Rules In and Around the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act (UCITA)." In Understanding Electronic Contracting: UCITA, E-Signature, Federal, State and Foreign Regulations. Chair: Raymond T. Nimmer, 401-467. New York: Practising Law Institute, 2001.
• With Michael G. Hillinger. "2001: A Code Odyssey (New Dawn for the Article 9 Secured Creditor)." Commercial Law Journal 106 (Summer 2001): 105-198.
• With Michael G. Hillinger. "Section 365 in the Consumer Context: Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue." Commercial Law Journal 104 (Winter 1999): 377-425.
• With Raymond T. Nimmer and Michael G. Hillinger. Commercial Transactions: Secured Financing: Cases, Materials, Problems. 2nd ed. Charlottesville, VA: Lexis Publishing, 1999. (Accompanied by Commercial Transactions: Secured Financing: Cases, Materials, Problems, 2nd ed. Teacher's Manual, by Nimmer, Hillinger and Hillinger. New York: Lexis Publishing, 2000)
• With Claudia Tobler. "Asset Protection Devices: Twyne's Case Retold." Journal of Bankruptcy Law and Practice 9: no.1 (November/December 1999): 3-58.
• With Honorable James F. Queenan, Jr. and Philip J. Hendel, editors. Chapter 11 Theory and Practice: A Guide to Reorganization. Horsham, PA: LRP Publications, 1994.
• With Raymond T. Nimmer. Commercial Transactions: Secured Financing, Cases, Materials, Problems. Charlottesville, VA: The Michie Company, 1992.
• "The Treatment of Consignments in Bankruptcy: Two Codes and Their Fictions at Play in the Fields." Bankruptcy Developments Journal 6 (1989): 73-120.
• "The Article 9 Filing Rules: Certainty, By No Means, A 'Sure Thing'." In Secured Transactions under the Uniform Commercial Code, edited by Peter F. Coogan, William E. Hogan, and Detlev F. Vagts, volume 1, 6-1 - 6-286. New York: Matthew Bender, 1963-. (These pages reflect the contribution of Professor Hillinger to the 1987 revision of this work.)
• Consulting Editor. Selected Law Cases, 1784-1800. Volume 5 of The Papers of John Marshall, edited by Herbert A. Johnson. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press in association with the Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1987.
• "The Article 2 Merchant Rules: Karl Llewellyn's Attempt to Achieve the Good, the True, the Beautiful in Commercial Law." Georgetown Law Journal 73 (April 1985): 1141-1184.
• "The Merchant of Section 2-314: Who Needs Him?" Hastings Law Journal 34 (March 1983): 747-808.
• With Sharon A. Henderson and David A. Glazer. "Equitable Distribution: Virginia Code Section 20-107." Virginia Bar Association Journal 8 (Fall 1982): 4-12.
• "Meet the New Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court (Virginia)." University of Richmond Law Review 16 (Summer 1982): 787-797.