BROKE
In the Motor City and now in Puerto Rico, the people who most need the government’s assistance are usually the last to get it.
Jodie Adams Kirshner is the author of Broke: Hardship and Resilience in a City of Broken Promises, which will be published by St. Martin's Press in November. She is a Research Professor at the Marron Institute. Previously on the law faculty at Cambridge University, she also teaches bankruptcy law at Columbia Law School. She is a member of the American Law Institute, past term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a technical advisor to the Bank for International Settlements. She received a prestigious multi-year grant from the Kresge Foundation to research this book.
Until 2014, Kirshner was a law professor at Cambridge University, where she also served as the deputy director of the Cambridge LLM program, the deputy director of the Cambridge Centre for Corporate and Commercial Law, and as a fellow of Peterhouse College, Cambridge. Kirshner received her undergraduate degree from Harvard University and graduate degrees in law and in journalism from Columbia University. She lives in New York City.