Blog Stuff

Gelpern on Puerto Rico and Greece on Rehm

06/30/15

Credit Slips blogger, Anna Gelpern, was on the Diane Rehm Show this morning discussing the financial problems in Puerto Rico and Greece. Gelpern of Georgetown University was joined by Greg Ip of the Wall Street Journal and Matthias Matthjis of Johns Hopkins. A link to the full audio program can be found here. 

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Professor Jay Westbrook Joins Us

04/07/15

My  best email of the day will be Professor Jay Westbrook's email saying he will join our mostly merry band of bloggers on a permanent basis. Westbrook has been guest blogging with us for a few weeks. Thanks to our great community of followers and your engagement with the issue we discuss, we have been able to persuade him to hang around. Westbrook is a legend in the field, and we are very proud to him as part of the Credit Slips team.

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1,000 Twitter Followers

04/07/15

That is an amazing milestone. Thank you everyone for your interest in what we have to say here.

If you want to follow us on Twitter or subscribe to our Facebook page, there are buttons on the right-side of the screen. These outlets are simply other channels we use to get our content to those who want to receive it.

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Credit Slips Bloggers' Amicus Briefs in Caulkett

03/05/15

With my attention drawn to other matters, my personal blogging has been light for the past month. One of the things that had my attention was the Caulkett case currently pending before the Supreme Court. The issue in Caulkett is whether a wholly underwater second mortgage can be avoided in a chapter 7 bankruptcy. Without any value to reach, a wholly underwater second would not seem to be an allowed secured claim within the meaning of section 506.

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Welcoming Jay Westbrook to Credit Slips

02/23/15

It is with great pleasure that I welcome Professor Jay L. Westbrook of the University of Texas as a guest blogger for Credit Slips. To people in the bankruptcy community, Professor Westbrook needs no introduction. He is a leader in both international bankruptcy and empirical studies of bankruptcy. The phrase "see Sullivan, Warren & Westbrook" is often the cite for any fact we need to know about the bankruptcy system.

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Thank You to Michelle Harner

02/02/15

Credit Slips thanks Michelle Harner for guest blogging. She shared her own personal views about reforms for chapter 11. Although Harner was here in her personal capacity and speaking only for herself, her role as the reporter for the American Bankruptcy Institute's Commission to Study the Reform of Chapter 11 gives her a valuable and informed perspective on the issues. Thank you, Michelle.

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Thanks to Matthew Bruckner

01/21/15

We want to thank Professor Matthew Bruckner of Howard University for hanging out at Credit Slips for a while. We appreciate him sharing his thoughts on some of the finance issues facing legal education and issues surrounding student debt.

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Welcome Back to Michelle Harner

01/19/15

We are happy to welcome back Professor Michelle Harner of the University of Maryland and the reporter for the American Bankruptcy Institute's Commission to Study the Reform of Chapter 11. Harner has kindly offered to blog on her perspectives on the Commission's report. So she does not have to say -- anything she writes represents only her own views and not her views in her capacity as the reporter.

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