News Topic: Academic & Scholarly News

A few weeks ago, Marie Reilly (Penn State Law, University Park) posted to SSRN a new paper, Catholic Dioceses in Bankruptcy , which details the outcomes of the eighteen chapter 11 cases filed by Catholic dioceses and religious institutes since 2004. ... Read full article

The  New York Times , the Associated Press , The Hill ,  and many other media outlets   are reporting that former  Credit Slips  ... Read full article

I'm pleased to announce that the second edition of my casebook, Business Bankruptcy:  Financial Restructuring and Modern Commercial Markets , is now in print and available for purchase from quality establishments such as Amazon .  ... Read full article

I'm very excited to announce the publication of a new book, Consumer Finance:  Markets and Regulation .  The book (also available on Amazon ) is the first consumer finance textbook in existence. ... Read full article

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I have just posted on the Social Science Research Network a forthcoming article called Corporate Bankruptcy Hybridity . ... Read full article

Lawyers and legal academics may be surprised to learn that Thomson Reuters, owners of the Westlaw electronic law library, sells its data to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency, and reserves the right in its privacy policy to share browsing ... Read full article

Older Americans (age 65 and over) are increasingly likely to file bankruptcy and now comprise a larger proportion of the people who file bankruptcy -- and the effects are not small. Using data from the Consumer Bankruptcy Project, in a new working paper ... Read full article

Ian Fletcher has passed away. He was a very important figure in insolvency law in England and elsewhere and a giant in the international side of our field. His passing is a great loss of a wonderful scholar and friend. ... Read full article

It is with great sadness that the news reached my desk of the passing of Professor Ian Fletcher of University College London. Ian was a leading international insolvency expert, well known to all of us at Credit Slips , and we extend our condolences to his ... Read full article

The Great Recession, the CFPB's creation, the rise of debt buying, changes in the debt collection industry, and advances in data collection have encouraged more research recently into issues of access to justice in the context of consumer law and ... Read full article

For those of you writing on student loans, you may be interested in a new call for papers for a conference I am working to organize. On November 30, 2018, the Rappaport Center for Law and Public Policy, Boston College Law School, and the National Consumer ... Read full article

Leiden University in the Netherlands has established an impressive strength in insolvency law studies . ... Read full article

I have a new paper out on municipal insolvency. It's called " Junk Cities:  Resolving Insolvency Crises in Overlapping Municipalities ," 107 Cal. L. Rev (forthcoming 2019).  The paper is co-authored with Aurelia Chaudhury and David ... Read full article

Assuming you still have those in your town. If not, also available for preorder now is my forthcoming book, entitled The Law of Failure .  It is my attempt to consider all of American business insolvency law as a whole. Not just bankruptcy but also ... Read full article

This weekend a mini-scandal erupted over the law firm Munger, Tolles requiring its summer associates to sign pre-dispute arbitration clauses. Munger, Tolles was rightly shamed into rescinding the practice, but one suspects that Munger, Tolles isn't ... Read full article

The current Consumer Bankruptcy Project (CBP)’s co-investigators (myself, Slipster Bob Lawless, and past Slipsters Katie Porter & Debb Thorne) just posted to SSRN our new article (forthcoming in Notre Dame Law Review ), Life in the Sweatbox . ... Read full article

I have a new (short!) paper out,  Bankruptcy's Lorelei:  The Dangerous Allure of Financial Institution Bankruptcy .  The paper, which builds off of some Congressional testimony from 2015, makes the case that proposals for resolving large, ... Read full article