News Topic: Academic & Scholarly News

In putting together a revised syllabus for my consumer finance course this semester, I was struck with how different this nascent field is from established courses like Contracts.  No matter what Contracts casebook one uses to teach, there are a bunch of ... Read full article

Just a word of gratitude to readers for providing great responses to the prior call for corporate bankruptcy lingo . Thanks to your help, UNC Law's advanced business bankruptcy students are collaboratively examining such terms through a wiki and this ... Read full article

At the end of a lively session  yesterday at Duke Law School featuring Professor Stephen Ware of University of Kansas Law School, there was a brief discussion of whether shorter foreclosure timelines and clearer rules would promote more workouts of ... Read full article

Just in time for New Year's resolutions on 1) reading more, 2) paring back your own debt, and 3) learning more about consumer bankruptcy to help you do your job (if you are a lawyer, judge, or academic, media, etc), the book, Broke: How Debt ... Read full article

Led by my colleague Elizabeth Gibson, four members of the National Bankruptcy Conference have produced a fantastic analysis of the Stern v. Marshall  U.S. ... Read full article

The Section on Financial Institutions and Consumer Financial Services will have a record four events at this weekend's Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting in Washington, DC. The theme is rethinking and reviving the field of financial ... Read full article

To all law profs out there who plan to attend next week's Association of American Law Schools annual meeting, be sure not to miss the Creditors' and Debtors' Rights section program Saturday morning at 8:30.   The theme of the program:  ... Read full article

Thanks, Bob, for welcoming me back. I'd like to start with a quick poll. Credit Slips readers, off the top of your head, what short writings (say 5 pages or fewer) should law students be doing that would be directly relevant to business bankruptcy ... Read full article

Funny to see the juxtaposition in the New York Times of a piece berating law schools for the irrelevance of their curriculum and then a piece about our former co-blogger Elizabeth Warren , a law professor whose work can be called anything but irrelevant ... Read full article

This last week the Permanent Editorial Board of the Uniform Commercial Code came out with a report bering the none-too-thrilling title of " Report on Application of the Uniform Commercial Code to Selected Issues Related to Mortgage Notes ". ... Read full article

Many Credit Slips readers will remember Judge Helen S. Balick who presided over the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware. The Widener School of Law has established a chair in her honor and invites persons to apply to serve as the first Helen ... Read full article

It is not often that intellectual debates about the nature of law and legal scholarship find their way into the popular media. Elizabeth Warren's campaign for U.S. Senate, however, has provided the occasion. This past weekend in the Boston Globe , ... Read full article

My Jotwell review of Sarah Woo's  last article is here .  ... Read full article

If you happen to be in Reykjavik or thereabouts in early October--or scouting the web for papers putting Europe in perspective-- this  looks like a wonderful conference, not least for bringing economists, finance, policy, and legal types together in one ... Read full article

There is still time to submit for this  Call for Papers -- the extended window is closing on  September 20. ... Read full article

I have a new paper out, Bankrupt Politics and the Politics of Bankruptcy , that examines state bankruptcy proposals and then uses them as a jumping-off point for sketching out a political theory of bankruptcy as a "creditor's armistice," an ... Read full article

There seems to be a cottage industry now in proposals to solve and/or mitigate systemic risk. I'm myself somewhat of a guilty party. The producers here are law profs and economists (and probably some other disciplines as well). These proposals fall ... Read full article

I've had a series of funny phone calls this week, in which the speaker expresses total shock that I answer the phone. While I am notorious for never answering my phone, the real cause of the callers' surprise is that the number where I answer is ... Read full article