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Consumer Bankruptcy, Done Correctly, To Help Struggling Americans

01/07/20

Today, Senator Elizabeth Warren unveiled her new plan to reform the consumer bankruptcy system. The plan is simple, yet elegant. It is based on actual data and research (including some of my own with Consumer Bankruptcy Project co-investigators Slipster Bob Lawless, former Slipster, now Congresswoman Katie Porter, and former Slipster Debb Thorne).

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Counting Healthcare Chapter 11 Filings: Are There More Than Expected?

05/23/19

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

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New (from the archives) paper on determinants of personal bankruptcy

02/13/19

This working paper is a longitudinal empirical study of lower-income homeowners, including a subset of bankruptcy filers, produced with an interdisciplinary team of cross-campus colleagues, including Professor Roberto Quercia, director of UNC's

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Older Americans’ Rising Bankruptcy Filings

08/06/18

Older Americans (age 65 and over) are increasingly likely to file bankruptcy and now comprise a larger proportion of the people who file bankruptcy -- and the effects are not small. Using data from the Consumer Bankruptcy Project, in a new working paper just posted to SSRN -- Graying of U.S.

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Bankruptcy, Illness, and Injury: More Data

10/24/17

A while back, political scientist Mirya Holman and I wrote a book chapter making sense of existing (and dueling) studies of the relationship between medical problems and bankruptcy, and presenting new findings from the 2007 Consumer Bankruptcy Project on debtors who entered into paymen

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John Oliver and consumer law YouTube videos

08/22/16

I'm trying something new this year.

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What's Behind All the Credit Card Debt Discharged Through Bankruptcy?

05/09/14

Monday was our last day of classes. This semester I taught a seminar about the role of consumer credit in the United States' economy and society through the lens of consumer bankruptcy (primarily utilizing data and papers from various iterations of the Consumer Bankruptcy Project; find info about the seminar, which was designed by Katie Porter, here).

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