News Topic: Bankruptcy Generally

Just a word of gratitude to readers for providing great responses to the prior call for corporate bankruptcy lingo . Thanks to your help, UNC Law's advanced business bankruptcy students are collaboratively examining such terms through a wiki and this ... Read full article

At the end of a lively session  yesterday at Duke Law School featuring Professor Stephen Ware of University of Kansas Law School, there was a brief discussion of whether shorter foreclosure timelines and clearer rules would promote more workouts of ... Read full article

Previously I mentioned this new paper on homeowners in bankruptcy  in the American Bankruptcy Law Journal. The central goal of the paper was to investigate what makes homeowners more or less likely to have mortgage troubles as they head into ... Read full article

Just in time for New Year's resolutions on 1) reading more, 2) paring back your own debt, and 3) learning more about consumer bankruptcy to help you do your job (if you are a lawyer, judge, or academic, media, etc), the book, Broke: How Debt ... Read full article

A headline from last Friday's BNA's Bankruptcy Law Reporter , which reports recent cases and other legal developments, caught my eye: Poultry Farmers Can't Rely on Promissory Estoppel Theory; Proofs of Claim Denied ... Read full article

Led by my colleague Elizabeth Gibson, four members of the National Bankruptcy Conference have produced a fantastic analysis of the Stern v. Marshall  U.S. ... Read full article

This is a newly published paper  in the American Bankruptcy Law Journal  that I was lucky to work on with Daniel McCue and Eric Belsky at the ... Read full article

We may be beginning to see the fallout from Stern v. Marshall , the Supreme Court case on bankruptcy jurisdiction courtesy of Anna Nicole Smith's bankruptcy. Last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit issued a broad decision that ... Read full article

Thanks, Bob, for welcoming me back. I'd like to start with a quick poll. Credit Slips readers, off the top of your head, what short writings (say 5 pages or fewer) should law students be doing that would be directly relevant to business bankruptcy ... Read full article

One of my crack research assistants, Scott Cromar, put together electronic versions of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code and Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure (FRBP) that can be read using Amazon Kindle or an ePub reader. Because these books were assembled ... Read full article

Yesterday's decision from the District Court court in the Madoff-Mets litigation is yet another example of why Congress desperately needs to revisit the safe harbors which exempt a host of financial transactions from the workings of the Bankruptcy ... Read full article

We have two married 60-something friends who are artists in Santa Fe and own a very simple home with a rental house in the front. The house is tiny by all but New York City standards, and since their income is always in flux (some months several grand, ... Read full article

For those Slips readers who are not regular Bloomberg people, I highly recommend today's bit from Bill Rochelle about the 5th Circuit's recent bankruptcy decisions, and the role of Chief Judge Jones. ... Read full article

For those of you on the West Coast and others who are not obssessing about the huricane, I give you some further thoughts on the Supreme Court's decision in Stern v. Marshall , this time in the context of the Inkeeper's chapter 11 case. Up now ... Read full article

The folks at the Weil bankruptcy blog do a great service in summarizing some of the initial consequences of the US Supreme Court's Stern v. Marshall decision. Suffice it to say, Mr. Chief Justice Robert's optomisim may have fallen. At the first ... Read full article

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 ... Read full article

"[L]et us stress being a professor specializing in bankruptcy is not a power position, even at Harvard Law School." ... Read full article

Eric Rasmusen of Indiana University and I were having a back channel communication on the U.S. Supreme Court's holding Stern v. Marshall ( see here for a summary ). ... Read full article