EDUCATION:
B.A., Stanford University
J.D., Harvard Law School

COURSES:
Bankruptcy & Creditors' Rights
Property
Secured Transactions
Effective Oral Communication for Lawyers
Advanced Topics in Bankruptcy

PROFILE:
Professor Bartell joined the faculty in 1996 after 17 years of private practice in New York. After graduating from Harvard Law School, where she was an officer on the Harvard Law Review, she clerked for Judge Alvin B. Rubin of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit in New Orleans. She then entered practice in New York where she became a partner in Shearman & Sterling, specializing in bank financing and bankruptcy work. She is a member of the American Law Institute and the American Bankruptcy Institute, and has published articles on bankruptcy topics, federal court-awarded attorneys' fees and costs, and the attorney/client privilege and work-product doctrine. Prior to coming to Wayne State, she was an adjunct professor at Fordham University School of Law. She teaches Property, Secured Transactions, Bankruptcy & Creditors' Rights and Effective Oral Communication for Lawyers.