Steve Nickles

Professor, CC Hope Chair in Law and Management, Wake Forest University Schools of Law and Business

Steve Nickles is the CC Hope Chair in Law and Management at the Wake Forest Schools of Law and Business and is recognized across the country as an outstanding scholar and teacher in the fields of business, commercial, and debtor-creditor law.  He is the coauthor of multiple casebooks and textbooks on these subjects and of a three-volume treatise on bankruptcy, used by judges and lawyers throughout the country. In addition to his many publications, Steve frequently lectures in professional development programs for lawyers and judges and to law school faculties and academic meetings about the use of technology in teaching.  He also created and teaches at the Wake Forest Divinity School the first course in the country that examines the legal implications of the church as a business.

For over a decade, Steve has served as an advisor on academic technology to Thompson-West, the country’s leading legal publisher, where he conceived and helped to develop TWEN (The West Educational Network), the only national, on-line course management system designed for legal education.  He previously taught at the University of Arkansas and the University of Minnesota, where he was a distinguished professor.  Throughout most of his adult life, Steve has also worked and played in government and politics.  He worked in Washington, D.C. for David H. Pryor when he was a United States Representative from Arkansas and later when Pryor served as a U.S. Senator.  When Pryor was Governor of Arkansas, Steve served in several roles, including as an advisor on legislative policy and as director of the state-level office of budget and management.