News Topic: Bankruptcy Generally

A quick post to announce that intellectual property scholar Jennifer Rothman has just published an article that engages with the bankruptcy treatment of the "right of publicity." Painting with the broadest brush, the piece questions the ... Read full article

Posting again on fiction so soon? Not the original intention, but I recently read a story that skirts around the substantive core of Credit Slips , as well as the fabulous work of sociologist Viviana Zelizer , a past Credit Slips guest . Blame or ... Read full article

A bankruptcy case from the 1990s called LTV Steel has amazingly enough become an issue in the U.S. ... Read full article

Although not always acknowledged expressly, exceptionalism is pervasive in bankruptcy scholarship. Some work makes no attempt to contexualize bankruptcy within the federal courts, apparently assuming its unique qualities (for example, the disinterest in ... Read full article

Sometimes we forget that, with all its flaws, consumer bankruptcy is still a remarkable institution, providing meaningful relief to more than two million Americans a year (counting co-debtors and dependents). ... Read full article

If I am not mistaken, it has been a while since  Credit Slips  has featured discussions of "bankruptcy literature." So I thought I would report that I just finished The Financial Lives of the Poets by Jess Walter , whom Janet Maslin called a ... Read full article

The Wall Street Journal reported last week about a challenge to a bankruptcy filing by the Santa Ysabel Resort and Casino. The casino, located on a reservation outside San Diego, filed a chapter 11 case, listing debts of about $40 million. The bankruptcy ... Read full article

For readers putting together course syllabi in the bankruptcy area, this post is just a reminder that my able research assistant, Scott Cromar, and I put together ePub and Kindle versions of the Bankruptcy Code and Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure. ... Read full article

One of our recent grads tells me that the recent Texas bar exam had a question on bankruptcy law. That got me wondering how many states test bankruptcy law on their bar exam. Two minutes of searching around on Google did not reveal any others, but by then ... Read full article

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In addition to a post last week  broadly raising visitors' physicial interaction with courts, an earlier post discussed variation in the website availability of daily calendars for U.S. bankruptcy courtrooms. ... Read full article

The Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities held a symposium on " Courts: Representing and Contesting Ideologies of the Public Sphere " in 2011, and recently published papers from this event. ... Read full article

The International Monetary Fund has focused its critical gaze on us. Just in time for the holiday marking the end of our colonial period, the IMF has completed its "Mission to the United States of America."  See here.   The IMF has held up its ... Read full article

In connection with some ongoing research, I have noticed that U.S. bankruptcy courts have different approaches to informing the public about matters being taken up in open court. Many provide PDFs of court calls on their websites up to several weeks in ... Read full article

I'm having trouble getting excited over RadLAX going before SCOTUS. ... Read full article

A few weeks ago, Katie Porter noted the release of the new book, Broke: How Debt Bankrupts the Middle Class . We are trying to feature posts from the authors of Broke about their contributions. Today's post comes from Professor Angela Littwiin of the ... Read full article

In many respects, bankruptcy is a one-size-fits-all legal process. Yes, there are ample differences in the law (and a world of difference in practice) between the bankruptcy of a large corporation and a typical consumer. But the Bankruptcy Code itself ... Read full article

In the introductory chapter of the book, Broke: How Debt Bankrupts the Middle Class ,  I present some data about consumer debt levels in the United States. ... Read full article