Bankruptcy Appellate Panel

A Bankruptcy Appellate Panel (abbreviated BAP) is a group of judges of the United States bankruptcy courts who are appointed to hear appeals from certain bankruptcy cases under the supervision of the United States courts of appeals.

Not all of the federal judicial circuits have yet convened Bankruptcy Appellate Panels. As of 2008, only the First, Sixth, Eighth, Ninth, and Tenth Circuits had convened these panels.