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Mark Weidemaier and Mitu Gulati ... Read full article

Mitu Gulati & Mark Weidemaier ... Read full article

Sovereign debt guru and Allen & Overy partner, Yannis Manuelides has a new paper ( here ) out on the “local law advantage” in Euro area sovereign bonds.  This paper, along with Mark Weidemaier’s paper from the beginning of the summer ( here – and a ... Read full article

Mark Weidemaier & Mitu Gulati ... Read full article

Mark Weidemaier & Mitu Gulati ... Read full article

Facebook’s proposed Libra cryptocurrency project has truly stirred up a hornet’s nest of controversy.  Critics have generally focused on Libra as a  currency  and the power of Facebook in society and its appropriation of users’ privacy.   ... Read full article

About two years ago, in 2017, an intriguing lawsuit was filed under the Alien Tort Claims Act in New York. It was filed by members of the Herero and Nama tribes for the genocide of their ancestors that took place in what is now known as Namibia. In March ... Read full article

It has been almost twenty-five years since I got hooked on the puzzle of why boilerplate financial contracts, even among the most sophisticated parties, have inefficient terms. Steve Choi and I were taking Marcel Kahan’s Corporate Bond class and we ... Read full article

Jamey Mavis Lowdermilk has just posted an article of interest to Credit Slips readers -- lawyers, judges, journalists, policymakers, and more. The article uses a case study of a chapter 12 family farm bankruptcy in North Carolina to ask bigger questions ... Read full article

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In February 2019, the United States Court of Appeals for First Circuit held that the selection process of the Oversight Board in PROMESA, the rather bipartisan Puerto Rico debt restructuring law (and more), is unconstitutional. The reason: its members ... Read full article

The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals this week released its opinion in In re Fulton, the highly anticipated consolidated appeal of four Chapter 13 cases involving debtors whose cars had been impounded. ... Read full article

On June 25, the CFPB will be holding a symposium on the meaning of "abusive" in the Consumer Financial Protection Act .  "Abusive" is an expansion of the traditional FTC Act couplet of "unfair or deceptive" acts and practices ... Read full article

USA Today just came out with an interesting expose about reverse mortgages and their negative impact , especially in low-income, African American, urban neighborhoods (highlighting a few in my backyard here in Chicago). ... Read full article

Bored on my flight into Kerala, India’s southern most state, a few weeks ago, I picked up a newspaper lying on the empty seat next to me.  Most of the news was either about the Indian elections and how the nationalist BJP party had swept to power or about ... Read full article

A remarkable new quantitative study finds that over two decades, African American home buyers in Chicago lost between $3 and $4 billion in wealth because of credit apartheid. The study authors from research centers at Duke, UIC and Loyola-Chicago reviewed ... Read full article

I've just returned from a really fantastic conference, the entire recorded proceedings of which are available online and might be of interest to Credit Slips readers. The St. Petersburg International Legal Forum takes place annually in the marvelous ... Read full article

This post is co-authored with my student, Kelsey Brandes, rising 3L, IU Maurer School of Law ... Read full article