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Fake and Real People in Bankruptcy
10/09/2022 This draft essay, Fake and Real People in Bankruptcy , just posted on SSRN, is considerably less far along than Unbundling Business Bankruptcy Law, posted last week . ...[more]Harmony or Mismatch? A virtual event on mass torts and bankruptcy on February 28
02/23/2022 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. ...[more]Annotated Bibliography of Histories of Debt and Bankruptcy
02/04/2022 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 ...[more]Just posted: Other Judges' Cases
01/31/2022 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; ...[more]Shocking Business Bankruptcy Law
10/27/2021 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! ...[more]Who extracts the benefits of big business bankruptcy?
10/26/2021 The Deal has a new podcast ...[more]Personal Insolvency in Asia and Currency Comparison
09/08/2021 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. ...[more]Recommended Reading: Bannon and Keith on Remote Court
08/24/2021 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 ...[more]Afsharipour on "Women and M&A"
08/18/2021 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 ...[more]Recommended reading: Afsharipour on Women and M&A
08/13/2021 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 ...[more]Book Rec: Range (or Yet Another Paean to Learning from Failure)
06/12/2021 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. ...[more]The New Thing in Contract Research - The Contract Production Process
12/13/2020 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 ...[more]The Resurgence of Calls For Financial Literacy
04/30/2020 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 . ...[more]Coronavirus Will Hasten the Shift To App-Based Banking and Lending. How Will That Affect People's Pocketbooks?
04/14/2020 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 ...[more]The Myth of Optimal Expectation Damages
04/10/2020 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 ...[more]Consumer Bankruptcy, Done Correctly, To Help Struggling Americans
01/07/2020 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 ...[more]Bankruptcy and Mindfulness
12/19/2019 The practice of mindfulness and other types of meditation are growing on the coasts and within the law school and lawyer communities. Perhaps these practices can provide meaningful benefits to bankruptcy clients, bankruptcy lawyers and bankruptcy ...[more]