Jared Ellias

Professor Jared A. Ellias writes and teaches about corporate debt and corporate debt restructuring.  His research on corporate bankruptcy topics has been published or is forthcoming in leading peer reviewed law and social science journals (such as the Journal of Legal Studies, the Journal of Legal Analysis and the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies) as well as in leading student-edited law reviews (such as the Yale Law Journal, the Duke Law Journal, the California Law Review, the Southern California Law Review and the Yale Journal on Regulation). He regularly presents his work at leading academic conferences, faculty workshops at leading law schools in the United States and abroad, and at events for practicing lawyers and distressed debt professionals.  His work has been selected twice for the Stanford/Yale/Harvard junior faculty forum and for presentation at the Weil, Gotshal & Manges Roundtable at Yale Law School. Three of his Articles have been designated by Corporate Practice Commentator as one of the Top 10 Corporate and Securities Laws Articles of the year (2020, 2022 and 2025), and one of his papers won the 2026 Grant Gilmore award for superior writing in the field of commercial finance law from the American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers.

In 2020, he was named to the American Bankruptcy Institute’s “40 Under 40” list for his scholarship and professional leadership.

Ellias frequently advises state and federal lawmakers on bankruptcy-related issues and he has testified on corporate bankruptcy issues before the California State Senate and presented research at a wide variety of bankruptcy law conferences and events. He advised the California State Senate on the 2019 bankruptcy of the Pacific Gas & Electric Company, one of the top ten largest industrial bankruptcies of all time that touched on many core issues of interest to the State of California. Before entering academia, Professor Ellias practiced corporate restructuring law in New York, representing creditors both in and out of bankruptcy court.