News Topic: Sociological Perspectives

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Just wanted to make sure Credit Slips readers were aware of this virtual event at noon Eastern/3 Pacific on February 28. Bonus: a link to a masterful analysis of the topic by Professor Elizabeth Gibson that the Federal Judicial Center published in 2005. ... Read full article

I just read a really fabulous annotated bibliography of books (alas, articles by such luminaries as Emily Kadens are excluded) on the history of credit, debt, and bankruptcy in the United States. Many of my favorites are on here, along with a few new ... Read full article

This article  has been in the works a long time. During the Detroit bankruptcy, I wrestled with some of its topics on  Credit Slips.   The case studies involve bankruptcy. The mediators in those cases are life-tenured judges. The footnotes make it long; ... Read full article

Another quick announcement that I have posted a draft essay on some under explored intersections between big business bankruptcy and big shocks  here.  The abstract is short, yes, but so is the essay. It also discusses ice cream. Thanks for reading!  ... Read full article

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While Shenzhen has gotten all the good press since its March launch of the first personal bankruptcy regime in Mainland China, a number of other Asian regimes have also been on the move. ... Read full article

Virtual court proceedings, an important public health intervention, have prompted many a judge and lawyer to envision heavy use of virtual hearings in more ordinary times - including in bankruptcy courts, which carry the highest federal court case load ... Read full article

There is a rich literature on the question of the gender gap in the legal profession, with wonderful work by scholars such as Elizabeth Gorman, Ronit Dinotvitzer, Fiona Kay, Joyce Sperling and others. One of the gaps in this literature that I've ... Read full article

For many reasons and no reasons, blogging on Credit Slips  during the COVID-19 pandemic has not come easy, or at all, for me ( Twitter, a different story ). Rejoining the Credit Slips conversation by recommending scholarship relevant to bankrupty-land ... Read full article

With summer upon us, I thought others might be searching for good new reading, as I was when I took up a smart friend's longtime recommendation to read Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World . So much good stuff in here. ... Read full article

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Cathy Hwang and Matt Jennejohn, two of the brightest young stars of the contract world, just put up a paper summarizing their view of one of the exciting new directions that contract research is taking. They describe it as the study of contractual ... Read full article

Today is the last day of National Financial Literacy Month. At a time when the economy has come to a grinding halt, it seems pertinent to talk about financial literacy, or, more accurately, the fallacy of financial education . ... Read full article

Over at the Machine Lawyering blog -- organized and edited by the Chinese University of Hong Kong's Law Faculty’s Centre for Financial Regulation and Economic Development -- Slipster Nathalie Martin and I just posted some commentary about our new ... Read full article

Roughly eighty years ago, Lon Fuller and William Perdue (the former, then a faculty member at Duke Law, and the latter, a 3L), wrote two of the most famous articles in contract law ( here ). One of the puzzles they posed -- about why the law favors the ... Read full article

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 ... Read full article