Lea Krivinskas Shepard

Professor Shepard joined the Loyola faculty in 2008. Her research and teaching interests include bankruptcy, consumer law and credit, and financial institutions. Her recent scholarship, which has appeared in the North Carolina Law Review, Brigham Young University Law Review, and American Bankruptcy Law Journal, addresses rescission under the Truth in Lending Act, debtor imprisonment, and the credit counseling industry. Before joining Loyola, Professor Shepard worked as an associate at Jones Day's Cleveland office. She subsequently clerked for the Honorable James G. Carr, then-Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, and the late Honorable Terence T. Evans of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. She is a graduate of Duke University and Harvard Law School and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa.