Comparative & Int'l Perspectives

A More Ancient Household Goods Rule

11/01/14

Courtesy of Jack Ayer, professor emeritus of law and polymathy, comes the following from the Wikipedia entry on Modigliani -- Amedeo, not Franco:

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Here Come the Tourists

10/31/14

This week's Dealb%k is about foreign debtors that file under the US Code, which also just happens to be the subject of a recent paper that my co-author and I have posted online.

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My Worlds Collide

10/27/14

Caterham MarussiaI am obsessively interested in two things -- bankruptcy and Formula One auto racing. I feed the first interest through this blog.

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Forget Argentina: How Do You Collect from Russia?

07/30/14

Never let it be said that the wheels of international justice spin quickly, but, with the pace of a Siberian jail sentence, the Permanent Court of Arbitration finally handed down its merits award in the Yukos litigation.

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Who Knew Google Was a Credit Reporting Agency?

05/14/14

You thought that Google was just a search engine.  It turns out that Google is also a credit reporting agency.  The octopus has a 9th tentacle.  Didn't see that coming. (I guess that makes it a Googlepus...) That's the implication of the European Court of Justice's ruling ordering Google to take down links to the advertisements to a foreclosure sale from 16 years ago.  

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