Austin R. Buchanan

Education

• J.D., University of Maryland School of Law, 2008
• B.A., The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, High Honors, 2003

Community Involvement

• Best Lawyers in America®, Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law, 2025-present
• Louisville Forum, President, 2021-2022, Board of Directors, 2017-present
• Shively Area Ministries, Chair of the Board of Directors, 2021-present
• Louisville Chapter of Credit Abuse Resistance Education (CARE), Leadership Team, 2018-present
• Kentucky Bar Association, 2015–present
• Kentucky League of Cities, 2018-2022
• Municipal Attorneys Association of Kentucky, 2018-2022
• Volunteer Judge, Regional Intercollegiate Mock Trial Qualifying Tournament Hosted by Bellarmine University, 2015–2020
• Volunteer Judge, University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law Oral Advocacy Competition, 2017

Honors and Awards

• Appointed Associate Editor of the American Bankruptcy Institute Journal, 2018-present
• Louisville Bar Association's Bankruptcy Section Chair, 2017-2018
• Louisville Business First 20 People to Know in the Law, 2017
• Leadership Louisville, 2016

• Thorny Issues in Consumer Cases, book chapter, Am. Bankr. Inst. (Dec. 2020)
• What’s the Matter with Delaware? An Analysis of the Bankruptcy Venue Reform Act of 2018, Louisville Bar Briefs (2018)
• Midland Funding v. Johnson: Pitting the Bankruptcy Code against the FDCPA?, Louisville Bar Briefs (2017)
• The Debtor’s Dissent: A Brief Review of Justice Scalia’s Bankruptcy Opinions, Louisville Bar Briefs (2016)
• Congress: Resolve Split on Ch. 7 Substantial Contribution Claims, 35-4 ABIJ 20 (2016)
• Does Credit that Diminishes the Estate Qualify as New Value?, 34-7 ABIJ 16 (2015)
• The Medical Bankruptcy Fairness Act of 2014: Cure or Misdiagnosis?, Am. Bankr. Inst. Legis. Comm. (2014)
• Bankruptcy or Bailout? Senators Seek to Replace Title II of Dodd–Frank with a New Bankruptcy Chapter 14, Am. Bankr. Inst. Legis. Comm. (2014)
• Early–Intervention Contacts and the Automatic Stay: CFPB Reconciles Conflict Between RESPA Rule and the Bankruptcy Code, Am. Bankr. Inst. Legis. Comm. (2014)
• The Protecting Employees & Retirees in Municipal Bankruptcies Act, Am. Bankr. Inst. Legis. Comm. (2014)
• Republican Revolutionaries and Tea Party Patriots: A Public Choice Analysis of Congressional Term Limits, 86 St. John’s L. Rev. 761 (2012) (available at https://scholarship.law.stjohns.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5561&context=lawreview)
• The Senate Hold: Preliminary Evidence from the Baker Years (with Congressman Daniel Lipinski and Dr. C. Lawrence Evans, cited in Walter J. Oleszek, Congressional Procedures & the Policy Process (2004))

• The Evolving Role of the Chapter 7 and Subchapter V Bankruptcy Trustees During COVID and Beyond, American Bankruptcy Institute, Dec. 2020
• Business Planning During and After the Covid-19 Crisis, Argent Trust Company, Jun. 2020
• Understanding the Nuts and Bolts of the “New” Subchapter V Small Business Chapter 11, American Bankruptcy Institute, May 2020
• Advanced Bankruptcy Discharge Issues, Kentucky Legal Aid, Sep. 2019
• The Intersection of Bankruptcy and the FDCPA: the CFPB’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, American Bankruptcy Institute, Jul. 2019
• Bankruptcy Venue Reform: Will it happen? Should it happen?, Louisville Bar Association, Aug.  2018
• Section 1111(b) and Credit Bidding Issues, Barbara A. Everly Advanced Procedures Bankruptcy Seminar, Jul. 2014
• Bankruptcy: A Creditor’s Perspective, National Business Institute, Dec. 2014