Irina V . Fox, JD
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LAWC - Ahmanson Law Center - 242
Irina V . Fox, JD
Professor
Prior to joining the faculty of Creighton University School of Law, Professor Fox practiced law in San Francisco at an AmLaw A-List firm of Latham & Watkins. She represented multinational corporations in complex business litigation, focusing on antitrust. Professor Fox worked on several high-profile mergers. She was part of a trial team in a highly publicized Silicon Valley case. She also represented emerging companies in finance transactions and worked on cutting-edge bankruptcy matters. She defended the rights of several pro bono clients.
Professor Fox clerked for the Honorable Carl J. Barbier at the federal district court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. She graduated summa cum laude (second in her class) from the Louisiana State University Law Center and is a member of the Order of the Coif.
Curriculum Vitae
Teaching Interests
- Business Associations, Corporate Finance, Mergers and Acquisitions, Securities Regulation, Secured Transactions
Research Focus
I research debtor-creditor issues, focusing on Chapter 11 corporate reorganizations and fraudulent transfers. I have also written on penalty clauses in testaments under Louisiana Civil Law and on expungement of criminal records under California Penal Code Section 851.8.Department
Law
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Professor
Presentations
- Fox Irina, Women in prison 2009
- Guest Lecturer: American Entrepreneurship: Silicon Valley Startups Organization and Financing, Nizhny Novgorod State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia 2015
- Panelist speaker at San Francisco MCLE event "Building Your Brand" regarding publishing law review articles 2013
Publications
- Norton Journal of Bankruptcy Law and Practice
Fox Irina, Back to square one
29:4, p. 295 - 329 2020 - Delaware Journal of Corporate Law
Fox Irina, Protecting all corporate stakeholders
44:1, p. 81 - 119 2020 - Norton Journal of Bankruptcy Law and Practice
Fox Irina, The necessity of protecting public securities transactions
27:2, p. 123 - 181 2018 - Norton Journal of Bankruptcy and Practice
Fox Irina, FTI Consulting, Inc. v. Merit Management Group, LP
26:2, p. 91 - 120 2017 - American Bankruptcy Law Journal
Fox Irina, Minimizing the risk of fraudulent transfer avoidanc
91:4, p. 739 - 785 2017 - San Diego Law Review
Fox Irina, Sealing and destruction of criminal records for the factually innocent
53:2, p. 369 - 425 2016 - Norton Journal of Bankruptcy Law and Practice
Fox Irina, Distressed lender beware
21:6, p. 707 - 716 2012 - Norton Journal of Bankruptcy Law and Practice
Fox Irina, 'Reasonably equivalent value' in § 548 avoidance actions
20:4, p. 469 - 510 2011 - Louisiana Law Review
Fox Irina, Penalty clauses in testaments
70:4, p. 1265 - 1302 2010 - American Bankruptcy Law Journal
Fox Irina, Settlement payment exception to avoidance powers in bankruptcy
84:4, p. 571 - 609 2010