Chris Hampson
@chrishampsonlaw.bsky.social
Law Professor at the University of Florida (Bankruptcy, Insolvency & Jubilee). Husband, father, cat person, puns.
HeinOnline just came out with a new journal ranking that evenly weights several different metrics, including recent cites, old cites, and how often the article has been ACCESSED in HeinOnline.
January 15, 2026 at 3:34 PM
HeinOnline just came out with a new journal ranking that evenly weights several different metrics, including recent cites, old cites, and how often the article has been ACCESSED in HeinOnline.
I reviewed "Unjust Debts" by @mbjacoby.bsky.social for the American Journal of Law and Equality. It's a great book, and if you haven't gotten a copy, you really should! direct.mit.edu/ajle/article...
MISSION CREEP OR MISSION FAILURE? A Review of Melissa Jacoby’s Unjust Debts
Bankruptcy law is not an area that most lawyers or law professors, much less the public, usually think about. Like death or taxes, we avoid worrying about such things until they stand at the gate. But...
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December 10, 2025 at 9:33 PM
I reviewed "Unjust Debts" by @mbjacoby.bsky.social for the American Journal of Law and Equality. It's a great book, and if you haven't gotten a copy, you really should! direct.mit.edu/ajle/article...
@alvinvelazquez.bsky.social and I wrote this little thing for the LPE blog, drawing on our shared background as Christian legal scholars. Not enough space to do the topic justice, but some preliminary thoughts here: lpeproject.org/blog/what-lp...
What LPE and the Christian Bible Have in Common
In today’s polarized political discourse, it is easy to forget that the Bible’s economic values align better with LPE’s market critiques than with the neoliberal right’s twentieth-century synthesis.
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December 4, 2025 at 4:40 PM
@alvinvelazquez.bsky.social and I wrote this little thing for the LPE blog, drawing on our shared background as Christian legal scholars. Not enough space to do the topic justice, but some preliminary thoughts here: lpeproject.org/blog/what-lp...
Update: the judge came in and announced that all the cases for the week have gone away, and we’re all free to go!
Reporting for jury duty! 🫡
December 1, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Update: the judge came in and announced that all the cases for the week have gone away, and we’re all free to go!
Reporting for jury duty! 🫡
December 1, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Reporting for jury duty! 🫡
I had a little hand in organizing this conference. Good times, great work, new friends!
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Pepperdine University's Nootbaar Institute Hosts Workshop on Christian Legal Thought
On November 7, 2025, the Nootbaar Institute on Law, Religion, and Ethics at Pepperdine Caruso School of Law hosted Christian Legal Thought from the Margins, an academic workshop for legal scholars to ...
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November 21, 2025 at 5:44 PM
I had a little hand in organizing this conference. Good times, great work, new friends!
www.pepperdine.edu/newsroom/art...
www.pepperdine.edu/newsroom/art...
I got to present on fiduciary duties in bankruptcy at the Westbrook conference in Austin alongside Stephen Lubben. An honor to participate in this storied conference!
Link to my latest article below in case anyone wants to dive in for edification or litigation 🧐
ilr.law.uiowa.edu/sites/ilr.la...
Link to my latest article below in case anyone wants to dive in for edification or litigation 🧐
ilr.law.uiowa.edu/sites/ilr.la...
ilr.law.uiowa.edu
November 21, 2025 at 3:03 PM
I got to present on fiduciary duties in bankruptcy at the Westbrook conference in Austin alongside Stephen Lubben. An honor to participate in this storied conference!
Link to my latest article below in case anyone wants to dive in for edification or litigation 🧐
ilr.law.uiowa.edu/sites/ilr.la...
Link to my latest article below in case anyone wants to dive in for edification or litigation 🧐
ilr.law.uiowa.edu/sites/ilr.la...
An honor to organize this conference on "Christian Legal Thought from the Margins" at Pepperdine Law with @jenniferleekoh.bsky.social and @alvinvelazquez.bsky.social So many wonderful brothers and sisters in Christ doing amazing & important work.
law.pepperdine.edu/surf-report/...
law.pepperdine.edu/surf-report/...
Pepperdine Caruso Law Nootbaar Institute Hosts Workshop on Christian Legal Thought
On Friday, November 7 the Nootbaar Institute on Law, Religion, and Ethics at Pepperdine Caruso School of Law held an academic workshop titled “Christian Legal Thought from the Margins."
law.pepperdine.edu
November 16, 2025 at 2:03 PM
An honor to organize this conference on "Christian Legal Thought from the Margins" at Pepperdine Law with @jenniferleekoh.bsky.social and @alvinvelazquez.bsky.social So many wonderful brothers and sisters in Christ doing amazing & important work.
law.pepperdine.edu/surf-report/...
law.pepperdine.edu/surf-report/...
@tonycasey.bsky.social and Thilo Kuntz have gathered a great group of int'l scholars to write about insolvency and ESG -- here's my little contribution. I map out start-up considerations for social enterprises from the vantage point of a bankruptcy attorney. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Distress-Proofing Social Enterprises
Bankruptcy scholars disagree about whether financial distress means the end of social enterprise. In United States bankruptcy courts, the filing of a bank
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November 3, 2025 at 8:26 PM
@tonycasey.bsky.social and Thilo Kuntz have gathered a great group of int'l scholars to write about insolvency and ESG -- here's my little contribution. I map out start-up considerations for social enterprises from the vantage point of a bankruptcy attorney. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Here's a new version of my Essay on the Ten Commandments in public schools, now with more constructive solutions (and all the same criticisms). Wise friends kept suggesting that I propose solutions too, and they were right! Happy to take feedback. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
The Ten Commandments, Stripped of Slavery, Exodus & Jubilee
The Ten Commandments are back in federal court, after Louisiana, Arkansas, and Texas passed statutes requiring public school districts to post the ancient text
papers.ssrn.com
October 24, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Here's a new version of my Essay on the Ten Commandments in public schools, now with more constructive solutions (and all the same criticisms). Wise friends kept suggesting that I propose solutions too, and they were right! Happy to take feedback. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Defamation debtors keep filing for bankruptcy. The latest is Ammon Bundy of Idaho. More from me at: blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/oblb/blog-po...
The Defamation-to-Bankruptcy Pipeline in the United States
blogs.law.ox.ac.uk
September 30, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Defamation debtors keep filing for bankruptcy. The latest is Ammon Bundy of Idaho. More from me at: blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/oblb/blog-po...
The palantir in LOTR once could be used to see across time and space, but Sauron corrupted them so that they only show the dark tower. The original doom scrolling?! “Perilous to us all are the devices of an art deeper than we possess ourselves.” (TTT, 1954)
September 28, 2025 at 8:43 PM
The palantir in LOTR once could be used to see across time and space, but Sauron corrupted them so that they only show the dark tower. The original doom scrolling?! “Perilous to us all are the devices of an art deeper than we possess ourselves.” (TTT, 1954)
The Eleventh Circuit denied rehearing en banc in 2 Monkey Trading, leaving untouched a circuit opinion that holds that corporate debtors are subject to discharge exceptions after a cramdown plan in subchapter V [1/2]
September 10, 2025 at 5:38 PM
The Eleventh Circuit denied rehearing en banc in 2 Monkey Trading, leaving untouched a circuit opinion that holds that corporate debtors are subject to discharge exceptions after a cramdown plan in subchapter V [1/2]
🪶New draft from me, bringing my Jubilee work to bear on the question of the Ten Commandments in public schools. I'm concerned about promoting law without narrative ... morality without Exodus or Jubilee. Forthcoming in W&L Online. Comments welcome! papers.ssrn.com/abstract=543...
The Ten Commandments, Stripped of Slavery, Exodus & Jubilee
The Ten Commandments are back in federal court, after Louisiana, Arkansas, and Texas passed statutes requiring public school districts to post the ancient text
papers.ssrn.com
September 2, 2025 at 9:55 PM
🪶New draft from me, bringing my Jubilee work to bear on the question of the Ten Commandments in public schools. I'm concerned about promoting law without narrative ... morality without Exodus or Jubilee. Forthcoming in W&L Online. Comments welcome! papers.ssrn.com/abstract=543...
A nice reminder from @VolunteerTwit on this Labor Day (and thank you for the shout-out to @elisebmaizel.bsky.social and my essay!)
www.businesslawprofessors.com/2025/09/laws...
www.businesslawprofessors.com/2025/09/laws...
Law's Labor Loved: A Labor Day Valentine
As the erstwhile "Monday blogger" for the BLPB, I have written Labor Day posts over the years on a variety of Labor Day topics--from the history
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September 1, 2025 at 8:57 PM
A nice reminder from @VolunteerTwit on this Labor Day (and thank you for the shout-out to @elisebmaizel.bsky.social and my essay!)
www.businesslawprofessors.com/2025/09/laws...
www.businesslawprofessors.com/2025/09/laws...
When a senior law professor asks to see what you’re working on
September 1, 2025 at 7:06 PM
When a senior law professor asks to see what you’re working on
I formatted my CV so that all hotlinks are in Lincoln Green, my favorite color. And my son says, “Because Link in Green, right?” and boy oh boy has the student become the master.
August 31, 2025 at 1:21 PM
I formatted my CV so that all hotlinks are in Lincoln Green, my favorite color. And my son says, “Because Link in Green, right?” and boy oh boy has the student become the master.
Fascinating study here.
I studied the entire 10-year sermon archive of one of America's fastest-growing megachurches to see how a congregation hears about economic inequality. Every passage preached on that appeared to question inequality, criticize the rich, or venerate the poor was interpreted against the plain reading.
August 26, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Fascinating study here.
I’m quoted in this piece about the individual bankruptcy of Buccaneers player Shilo Sanders.
Bankruptcy case still looms large for Buccaneers rookie safety Shilo Sanders
Deion Sanders' middle son Shilo tries to make NFL roster as bankruptcy case remains active with creditor seeking more than $11 million.
www.usatoday.com
August 21, 2025 at 3:40 PM
I’m quoted in this piece about the individual bankruptcy of Buccaneers player Shilo Sanders.
The best movies are bankruptcy movies.
August 19, 2025 at 7:49 PM
The best movies are bankruptcy movies.
I'm delighted to share that the faculty at UF Law have decided to promote me to Associate Professor. It's a great job with a wonderful group of people (that includes our phenomenal students), and I'm looking forward to the coming school year!
August 16, 2025 at 7:28 PM
I'm delighted to share that the faculty at UF Law have decided to promote me to Associate Professor. It's a great job with a wonderful group of people (that includes our phenomenal students), and I'm looking forward to the coming school year!
I'm no expert, but I appreciated this analysis: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/o...
Opinion | Geometry Solves Gerrymandering
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August 13, 2025 at 6:32 PM
I'm no expert, but I appreciated this analysis: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/o...
@elisebmaizel.bsky.social and I had the great fortune to work with @califlrev.bsky.social on this piece.
Big law firms have been forced to make a choice: appease the Trump administration or fight back. In a new CLR Online piece, Christopher D. Hampson & Elise Bernlohr Maizel consider the choice that the majority of firms have made to stay silent. californialawreview.org/online/trump-biglaw
August 11, 2025 at 10:47 PM
@elisebmaizel.bsky.social and I had the great fortune to work with @califlrev.bsky.social on this piece.
This was fun! Mac Verstandig and I talk with U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Elizabeth Gunn about some of the longest contempt cases in U.S. history, featuring sunken treasure and foreign self-settled trusts.
Bad Boys of Bankruptcy: S2E8: The Pirates of the Penitentiary
Podcast Episode · To the Extent That... · 08/05/2025 · 37m
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August 6, 2025 at 6:25 PM
This was fun! Mac Verstandig and I talk with U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Elizabeth Gunn about some of the longest contempt cases in U.S. history, featuring sunken treasure and foreign self-settled trusts.