Jared I. Mayer

Biography

Jared Mayer is a Bigelow Teaching Fellow and Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago Law School. His research mainly focuses on corporate reorganizations and touches on other domains of private law, such as tort law and the law governing fiduciary duties. His scholarship has appeared in the University of Chicago Law Review Online and the American Bankruptcy Institute Law Review, among other publications.

Prior to joining the Law School, Jared was an associate in the Business Restructuring group at Ropes & Gray, LLP. In his practice, Jared represented companies, lenders, equity sponsors, and other institutions in an array of in-court and out-of-court restructurings. Prior to that, he served as a law clerk to Justice Barry T. Albin (ret.) of the New Jersey Supreme Court.

Jared received his BA (with honors) and MA - both in philosophy - from Johns Hopkins University, and his JD (with honors) from the University of Chicago Law School.

Education and Experience

Education

The University of Chicago Law School, Chicago, IL

J.D. with Honors, June 2021

Executive Articles Editor, Chicago Journal of International Law
Research Assistant to Professor Martha C. Nussbaum
Fellow, Ernst Freund Fellowship in Law & Philosophy, 2022-2023
Peer Advisor, Peer Advisor Program

Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

M.A., May 2018
B.A., Phi Beta Kappa, University Honors, May 2018

Experience

The University of Chicago Law School

Harry A. Bigelow Teaching Fellow, September 2023 – Present

Ropes & Gray, LLP, New York, NY

Associate, October 2022 – August 2023

Represent public and private companies, lenders, and equity sponsors in a variety of in- and out-of-court matters
Drafted pleadings in preparation for the chapter 11 cases of FB Debt Financing Guarantor, LLC and its affiliated debtors

The Honorable Barry T. Albin, Supreme Court of New Jersey, Somerville, NJ

Law Clerk, August 2021 – August 2022

Drafted five published opinions and fifty-two memoranda in civil, criminal, and family law cases