Academic & Scholarly News

The Heirs of Karl Lleywellyn: the PEB Report, Green Cheese, and the Hijacking of American Law (Part I)

11/18/11

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". There's an awful lot to say about this awful document, and I'm not going to attempt to cover it all in a single blog post.

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New Balick Chair at Widener Law School

11/10/11

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 S. Balick Chair in Business Bankruptcy Law. More details about the position are available here.

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Warren and Empiriciscm

10/24/11

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, Leon Neyfakh profiled Warren's academic career and her intellectual legacy. Neyfakh did a great job with a nuanced debate from the academy and explaining it for a popular audience.

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Regulatory Bankruptcy

10/01/11

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

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Call for Papers: Financial Institutions and Consumer Financial Services Section

09/16/11

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

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Conference on the Debt Crisis in the Eurozone

09/16/11

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 place (and my contribution notwithstanding).

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The Systemic Risk Industry

08/16/11

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 into three buckets. One focuses on executive compensation as the key area for reform, a second on activity and/or size limitations, and the third on changing banks' capital structures.

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Bankruptcy Politics and State Bankruptcy

08/16/11

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 unstable political bargain, rather than an economic bargain ala Jackson & Baird's "creditor's bargain."  

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How to Find Me

08/10/11

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 sometimes the third one they have called looking for me. Why?

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Sarah Woo

07/17/11

I am sad to report that my co-author, and recent Credit Slips guest blogger, Sarah Woo of NYU recently passed away after a long illness. She was one of the few who easily bridged the devide between banking and bankruptcy, and will be missed.

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