Who "Presides" over Chapter 13 Plan Confirmation Hearings?
Temple Law Review will soon publish a volume honoring Bil ... Read full article
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Municipal Bankruptcy After Detroit
Yep, 800,000 Bankruptcy Filings This Year
My blogging has been light the past few months as we have been working on the eighth edition of what will now be LoPucki, Warren & Lawless, Secured Transactions: A Systems Approach . For you secured transactions teachers out there, we have returned a ... Read full article
Quantifying the Benefits of the Fresh Start
I recently discovered a not-so-new paper that provides a useful answer to a question I've asked before : Who benefits from consumer bankruptcy, and to what degree? This is a real challenge for policy-making, and well-supported answers are essential ... Read full article
Bankruptcy Filings Down Again 10.1% in February 2015
Sh*t In, Sh*t Out? the Problem of Mortgage Data Corruption & Empirical Analysis
Empirical economic analysis is a powerful tool. It can elucidate correlations and sometimes even get us to causual explanations. But it has a serious weak-spot: its value is entirely dependent upon the integrity of the data analyzed. To put the problem ... Read full article
Rethinking “Small” Business Bankruptcies
Have Retail Reorgs Gone the Way of the Dodo?
Bankruptcies Down 12% in 2014, Forecast Predicts the Same Decline for 2015
Bankruptcy Filings Are Low, But Not Everywhere
Bankruptcy Filings Will Be the Lowest Since 1995 -- Here Is a Reason Why
"Don't give me so much that you've given me nothing" - Remembering M. Caldwell Butler's Contribution to Bankruptcy Law
Former Virginia Congressman M. Caldwell Butler died last week. ... Read full article
900,000 Bankruptcy Filings This Year, Maybe
Working and Living in the Shadow of Economic Fragility
Cui bono?
At a conference on consumer bankruptcy policy over the weekend in At ... Read full article
Are Churches Slowly Recovering?
I'm thrilled to join Credit Slips as an occasional contributor. As Bob mentioned, my research focuses on religious organizations that file under chapter 11. Based on the approximately 500 religious institutions that filed between 2006 and 2011 (about ... Read full article
Bankruptcy Filings Fall 13% in 2013
(Yet Another) Chapter 13 Map
As Bankruptcy Filings Fall, the Percentage of Chapter 13s Rises
The Second Derivative on the Bankruptcy Filings Rate