Adrian J Walters

Before joining Chicago-Kent, Professor Walters was the Geldards LLP Professor of Corporate and Insolvency Law at Nottingham Law School, Nottingham Trent University (NTU).  He began his academic career at NTU in 1994 as a Lecturer, becoming a Reader in Law in 2002 and a Full Professor in 2005.  Alongside his academic role he also provided consultancy service to Geldards LLP between 2005 and 2011.  He remains a Fractional Visiting Professor at NTU and a member of NTU's Centre for Business and Insolvency Law, which he helped to establish. Professor Walters has published widely in the areas of bankruptcy law and general corporate and commercial law. He is co-author of Directors' Disqualification and Insolvency Restrictions (Sweet & Maxwell, 3d ed. 2010) (with M. Davis-White Q.C.), a leading treatise on the U.K.'s Company Directors Disqualification Act of 1986. His articles, notes and reviews have appeared in journals including American Bankruptcy Law Journal, European Company and Financial Law Review, International Insolvency Review, Journal of Corporate Law Studies, Law Quarterly Review, and Lloyd's Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly. He is a past general editor of the Nottingham Law Journal and is a current editor of Company Lawyer, International Insolvency Review, and Global Restructuring Review. He is a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy, a member of the International Insolvency Institute, and an honorary academic member of the U.K.'s Chancery Bar Association. He has served as an INSOL scholar at INSOL International, a global umbrella organization for national associations of accountants and lawyers focusing on bankruptcy and restructuring. He was the academic member of the U.K. Insolvency Service's Policy Evaluation Group between 2005 and 2011. He is twice winner of Chicago-Kent's Student Bar Association Professor of the Year (2014–15 and 2016–17), and a winner of the Chicago-Kent College of Law Excellence in Teaching Award (2018) and IIT's Michael J. Graff Teaching and Advising Innovation Award (2021). In 2020, Walters was named to the inaugural Lawdragon 500 Leading U.S. Bankruptcy & Restructuring Lawyers list.