DANIEL AARON AUSTIN. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Ph.D. Political Science, 1994; M.A. Political Science, 1993

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1 DANIEL AARON AUSTIN Northeastern University School of Law 54a Cargill Hall Huntington Avenue fax Boston, Massachusetts Education University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Ph.D. Political Science, 1994; M.A. Political Science, 1993 Columbia Law School, New York, New York J.D., 1986 ¹ Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar ¹ Certificate of Achievement with Merit, Parker School of Foreign and Comparative Law Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah B.A. Mandarin Chinese and Russian Languages, 1983 Professional Affiliations Member, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Bar American Bankruptcy Institute (Consumer Bankruptcy Committee) Boston Bar Association (Bankruptcy Law Section) Admitted to the Third and Seventh Circuit Courts of Appeals, District Courts for the Northern and Southern District of Ohio, Northern District of Illinois, Western District of Pennsylvania, and the Supreme Courts of Illinois, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. Publications BOOKS AND BOOK CHAPTERS GRADUATING WITH DEBT: STUDENT LOANS UNDER THE BANKRUPTCY CODE (with Susan Hauser) (American Bankruptcy Institute, 2013) Undue Hardship: Standards and Case Law under 11 U.S.C. 523(a)(8), chapter in BEST OF ABI 2013: THE YEAR IN CONSUMER BANKRUPTCY (American Bankruptcy Institute, 2013) Editor, CONSUMER BANKRUPTCY: FUNDAMENTALS OF CHAPTER 7 AND CHAPTER 13 (American Bankruptcy Institute, 2012) REAFFIRMATION AGREEMENTS IN CONSUMER BANKRUPTCY CASES, 2d ed. (with Donald Lassman) (American Bankruptcy Institute, 2010)

2 Daniel A. Austin Page 2 REAFFIRMATION AGREEMENTS IN CONSUMER BANKRUPTCY CASES (with Donald Lassman). (American Bankruptcy Institute, 2009) LAW REVIEW ARTICLES Medical Debt As A Cause of Consumer Bankruptcy, 2014 MAINE LAW REVIEW (forthcoming) Student Loans in Bankruptcy: An Empirical Assessment, 2014 SUFFOLK LAW REVIEW (forthcoming) The Indentured Generation: Bankruptcy and Student Loan Debt, 53 SANTA CLARA LAW REVIEW 329 (2013) Bankruptcy and the Myth of Uniform Law, 42 SETON HALL LAW REVIEW 1081 (2012) The Bankruptcy Clause and the Eleventh Amendment: An Uncertain Boundary Between Federalism and State Sovereignty, 42 SAN FRANCISCO LAW REVIEW 383 (2007) For Debtor or Worse: Discharge of Marital Debt Obligations Under the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005, 51 WAYNE LAW REVIEW 1369 (2005) JOURNAL ARTICLES AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS Ethical Ambiguities on the Front Lines of Consumer Representation (with Donald Lassman), AMERICAN BANKRUPTCY INSTITUTE JOURNAL, Vol. 33, No. 7, pp , 80 (July 2014) Not So Fast, Senator! How to Really Solve the Student Loan Debt Crises, Huffpost, Oct. 9, 2013 State Laws, Court Splits, and Local Practice Make Consumer Bankruptcy Anything but Uniform, AMERICAN BANKRUPTCY INSTITUTE JOURNAL, Vol. 29, No. 10, pp. 1, (December 2010) Consumer Bankruptcy: Staggering Towards Coherency, NORTHEASTERN LAW MAGAZINE (Summer/Fall 2010) Reaffirmation Agreements in Consumer Bankruptcy Cases (with Donald Lassman) SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND ROUNDTABLE SYMPOSIUM LAW JOURNAL (2009). Zero Tolerance for Commercial Fraud: Bankruptcy Metrics Dictate That Forewarned is Forearmed,(with Robert J. Musso, Bruce Weiner, and Jack Seward), AMERICAN BANKRUPTCY INSTITUTE JOURNAL Vol. 24, No.10, pp. 1, 6-49 (December 2005)

3 Daniel A. Austin Page 3 Drop Down? Drop Dead! Excess Insurers Are Not Required To Provide Primary Coverage In Lieu of an Insolvent Insurer, AMERICAN BANKRUPTCY INSTITUTE JOURNAL, VO. 24, No. 9, pp. 24, 56 (November 2005) Digital Electronic Data, NORTON S BANKRUPTCY LAW AND PRACTICE, 2D ED, 141:31 141:59 (Thompson West 2004) E-Sleuthing and the Art of Electronic Data Discovery: Uncovering Hidden Assets in the Digital Age (with Jack Seward), AMERICAN BANKRUPTCY INSTITUTE JOURNAL Vol. 23 (February, March, April 2004) (three-part series) Eat My Dirt! Dirt for Debt Swaps, AMERICAN BANKRUPTCY INSTITUTE JOURNAL Vol. 23, No.5, pp. 12, 48 (June 2003) Employee Severance and Retention Rights in Bankruptcy, AMERICAN BANKRUPTCY INSTITUTE JOURNAL Vol. 23, No. 4, 5 (April, May 2003) [Part I April 2003, p.1, 44-45; Part II May 2003, p.14, 32] Contributing Author, NEWBERG ON CLASS ACTIONS (3rd ed.) (Shepard's/McGraw-Hill, 1993) Selected Presentations How Hard is the Hard in Undue Hardship: The Current State of 523(a)(8). Conference organization committee and panelist for ABI Student Loan Debt Symposium, Georgetown Law Center, Washington, D.C., May 30, Student Loan Discharge Updates. Panel moderator and presenter for American Bankruptcy Institute Annual Spring Meeting, Washington, D.C., April 26, Student Loan Debt in Bankruptcy: An Empirical Assessment. Invited speaker for the Student Loan Debt Symposium, Suffolk University Law School, April 12, Invited speaker at annual Great Debates held at the plenary session of the American Bankruptcy Institute Winter Leadership Conference, Palos Verdes, California, December 6, Undue Hardship Case Law for Discharge of Student Loan. Panelist and presenter for American Bankruptcy Institute 20 th Annual Northeast Bankruptcy Conference and Consumer Forum, Newport, Rhode Island, July 13, Student Loan Debt in American: A Dispassionate Agenda. Presentation to the Topeka Area Bankruptcy Council, Topeka, Kansas, June 26, Societal Implications of Student Loan Debt. Panelist and presenter at the Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, May 30, 2013.

4 Daniel A. Austin Page 4 Student Loans: Bankruptcy May Not Have All the Answers -- But Does Congress? Webinar presented on April 10, 2013, sponsored by the American Bankruptcy Institute. International Law in Domestic Legal Practice. Presentation at the conference, Global Lawyers and the Future of Legal Education, Center for Law and Policy, Lahore, Pakistan, December 15, Overview of the Student Loan Debt Crises. Panelist and presenter at the American Bankruptcy Institute Winter Leadership Conference, Tucson, Arizona, USA, November 30, Pre-packs, Structured Dismissals, and Liquidating Plans: New Challenges for Creditors in Chapter 11 Bankruptcies. Speaker at the Academic Forum of INSOL Europe Conference, Brussels, Belgium, October 11, Numbers, Drivers, and Profiles of Student Loan Debt. Panelist and presenter on panel dealing with student loan debt. Chicago 5 th Annual Consumer Bankruptcy Conference, Chicago, Illinois, USA, October 8, Fundamentals of U.S. Business Bankruptcy. Two-week course on business bankruptcy law taught at Renmin University School of Law, Suzhou Campus, Suzhou, China, June 10-28, Foreign Insolvency Proceedings in U.S. Courts. Invited speaker at the th International Conference Public Administration for the 21th Century: Agenda for Russian Authorities, Moscow, Russia, May 29, Business Bankruptcy Practice and the Constitutional Mandate of Uniform Bankruptcy Laws. Invited speaker at the American College of Bankruptcy 6 th Circuit Fellows Meeting, Detroit, Michigan, USA, November 5, Fundamentals of U.S. Commercial Law. One-week course on commercial law taught at Bahçeşehir University School of Law in Istanbul, Turkey, May 21-25, 2011 Chapter 15 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code. Speaker at the Academic Forum of the INSOL Europe Conference, Venice, Italy, September 21, Doing Deals Now. Panel moderator for Transaction Law Conference, Northeastern University School of Law, Boston, MA, March 12, Reaffirmation Agreements in Consumer Bankruptcy Cases. Speaker for Boston Bar Association seminar for consumer lawyers on reaffirmation agreements, Boston, MA, USA, January 12, Zero Tolerance for Commercial Bankruptcy Fraud, Panelist for American Bankruptcy Institute 2005 Winter Leadership Conference, Indian Wells, California, December 1, 2005.

5 Daniel A. Austin Page 5 Risks for Foreign Investors Under U.S. Bankruptcy Law. Speaker for international conference, Centre for International Legal Studies, Kitzbühel, Austria, January 15, Secured Creditors Remedies Upon Default and Priorities Among Creditors, CLE Presentation. Lorman Educational Services, Pittsburgh, PA, June 25, Bankruptcy in Ohio: A Creditor s Perspective, CLE Presentation. Cincinnati, OH, April 10, Academic Experience Northeastern University School of Law, Boston, MA Associate Professor of Law, August 2009 to present. Courses Consumer Bankruptcy Business Bankruptcy Payment Systems Antitrust Appointments Committee (2011) Admissions Committee (2010, 2012) Curriculum Committee (2009, 2013) Advising Attorney for Legal Skills in Social Context program Faculty Advisor to NUSL Chapter of the Asian and Pacific Law Students Association Advisor to NUSL Tang Moot Court team (2010 to 2012). Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, Edinboro, PA Assistant Professor of Political Science, Courses Taught American Government American Foreign Policy International Law Politics of Defense and National Security Canadian Politics & Government International Relations Legal Experience Thomas H. Ayoob III & Associates, Pittsburgh, PA, McGuireWoods LLP, Pittsburgh, PA, Keating, Muething, and Klekamp, PLL, Cincinnati, OH, Culbertson, Weiss, Schetroma, and Schug, P.C., Meadville, PA,

6 Daniel A. Austin Page 6 Birndorf & Birndorf, Chicago, IL, Thompson Hine, LLP, Cleveland, OH, Grants Awarded Faculty Research Stipend. Northeastern University School of Law stipend in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014 for research and writing on bankruptcy law. Commercial Arbitration. Grant in 1997 from Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education, Faculty Professional Development Fund.