G. Ray Warner is the Associate Dean for Bankruptcy Studies and a
Professor of Law. Prior to joining the St. John's faculty in 2003,
he was the William P. Boreland Distinguished Scholar and Professor
of Law at the School of Law of the University of Missouri - Kansas
City. He has served as the Robert M. Zinman Resident Scholar at the
American Bankruptcy Institute in Washington, D.C., the leading
multi-disciplinary, non-partisan organization dedicated to research
and education on matters related to insolvency. Professor
Warner holds an LL.M. in Corporation Law from New York University
School of Law, a J.D. degree, cum laude, from Northwestern
University School of Law and a bachelor's degree in mathematics
from Emory University, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa.
Professor Warner has taught a variety of courses in the
bankruptcy, commercial law, and consumer law areas. He is
co-advisor to the American Bankruptcy Institute Law
Review and heads the National Duberstein Bankruptcy Moot Court
Competition. Prior to joining the St. John's faculty, he received
the University of Missouri's Pierson Award for Outstanding Teaching
in Law and is a multiple recipient of law school teaching awards at
St. John's. Professor Warner is a regular seminar speaker at
professional conferences and has published numerous articles in the
bankruptcy, commercial law and consumer law areas.
Professor Warner is active in national organizations in the
bankruptcy and insolvency fields. He served as Secretary and a
member of both the Board of Directors and the Executive Committee
of the American Bankruptcy Institute. He is the former Chair,
former Dean, and a founder of the American Board of Certification,
the only national credentialing body for bankruptcy and creditors'
rights practitioners. He is a Founding Member of the
International Insolvency Institute, a Fellow in the American
College of Bankruptcy and the United States Academic Editor of the
International Insolvency Law Review. He is a former
Director and former Secretary of the National Association of
Consumer Advocates. He also served as Chair of the Association of
American Law Schools' Section on Post-Graduate Legal
Education. Professor Warner serves as Of Counsel to the law
firm of Greenberg Traurig, LLP, has consulted in numerous major
bankruptcy and consumer law cases, and represented the bankruptcy
trustee before the United States Supreme Court in a 9-0 victory in
Fidelity Financial Services, Inc. v. Fink, 522 U.S. 211
(1998).