Academic & Scholarly News

AALS & The Slips

01/07/16

Quite a few Credit Slips bloggers and former guests are panelists at the session the Debtor-Creditor Section of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) meeting.The session is entitled, "Bankruptcy for the Ninety-Five Percent: Making the System Work for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses and Sole Proprietors" and will take place on Saturday from 1:30 - 3:15 PM. If you are at the AALS meeting, check it out. Panelists and discussants are Matthew Bruckner, Andrew Dawson, Pamela Foohey, Margaret Howard, Melissa Jacoby, Ed Morrison, Foteini Teloni, and Jay Westbrook.

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Foohey on Black Churches in Bankruptcy

12/18/15

Credit Slips blogger Pamela Foohey has a new article on SSRN, "Lender Discrimination, Black Churches, and Bankruptcy." This paper builds on her previous work about churches in bankruptcy to dig into the demographics of which churches end up in bankruptcy court.

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No Way to Run a Railroad: Scholars' Letter on the Trust Indenture Act Amendment

12/08/15

A large number of bankruptcy and corporate finance scholars, including several Slipsters, signed on to a letter to Congressional leadership regarding the proposed omnibus appropriations bill rider to amend the Trust Indenture Act.

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Indiana Adds Some Bankruptcy to Its Bar Exam

11/16/15

Bernie Trujillo emailed me from Valparaiso University with the news that the Indiana bar examiners have added some bankruptcy law to the state bar exam.

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Who "Presides" over Chapter 13 Plan Confirmation Hearings?

11/02/15

Shutterstock_329900393Temple Law Review will soon publish a volume honoring Bil

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Tired of Dealing with Students' Exams?

10/30/15

Shutterstock_194826680As exam grading season looms, some professors lament.

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The Myth of the Disappearing Free Checking Account

10/22/15

A regular trope sounded by opponents of consumer financial regulations is that the regulations have resulted in the disappearance of free checking.

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Covenant Banking

10/14/15

A new book out by University of Minnesota Law Professors Claire Hill and Richard Painter proposes a really intriguing proposal for disciplining wayward financial services firms: "covenant banking." The problem, as Hill and Painter observe, is that when things go badly at a financial institution, the

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Law of Debtors and Creditors Users (and would-be users)

07/30/15

As Jason Kilborn has graciously described, Credit Slips is the blogging base of the authors of the Law of Debtors and Creditors, 7th edition, (Aspen/Wolters Kluwer 2015).

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