A new paper by Franceso D'Acunto and Albert Rossi, both at the University of Maryland's Department of Finance, contends that the Dodd-Frank Act resulted in "a substantial redistribution of credit from middle-class households to wealt ... Read full article
A Conference celebrating the 25th year of International Association FO Consumer law will be held July 16 to 19, in Porto Alegre (UFRGS), Brazil. The The purpose of the Conference is to provide a forum where leading international scholars, practitioners, ... Read full article
One of the hardest things about teaching, whether in an informal setting or in a classroom, is telling someone that they are . . . ahem, WRONG. Or at least not right. Or could use improvement. Or there is an opportunity to improve. Something like that. . ... Read full article
I'm testifying before House Financial Services tomorrow regarding the "CHOICE Act," the Republican Dodd-Frank alternative. My testimony is here . ... Read full article
If you happen to be at the 2016 Law & Society Association meetings in New Orleans, stop by the panels from the Collaborative Research Network (CRN) on Household Finance. This group got its start as an international collaborative studying ... Read full article
Every wondered how ApplePay works? What the whole deal with Chip cards is? Those contactless readers at stores? If you're looking to nerd out on 21st century payment technology...and its legal and business implications, look no further. I have a ... Read full article
For the first time in nearly two decades of wrestling with section 365 of the Bankruptcy Code , I feel like I really understand the practical problems with the notion of "executoriness," as well as a constructive way forward. ... Read full article
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 ... Read full article
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 ... Read full article
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 . ... Read full article
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. ... Read full article
Temple Law Review will soon publish a volume honoring Bil ... Read full article
As exam grading season looms, some professors lament. ... Read full article
A regular trope sounded by opponents of consumer financial regulations is that the regulations have resulted in the disappearance of free checking. ... Read full article
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 ... Read full article
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). ... Read full article
