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Consumer Law Scholars Conference--Call for Abstracts
07/14/2023 The Center for Consumer Law & Economic Justice at Berkeley Law has announced the call for abstracts for the 2024 Consumer Law Scholars Conference . Abstracts are due by September 8, 2023, for the conference scheduled for February 29-March 1, 2024. The ...[more]June 7 virtual event on Second Circuit's Purdue Pharma decision
06/02/2023 The Commercial Law League of America is holding a virtual event next week, free of charge and open to all, on broader implications of the Second Circuit's Purdue Pharma decision. ...[more]Community Financial Services of America v. CFPB Amicus Brief
05/15/2023 This fall the Supreme Court will be hear a case captioned Community Financial Services of America v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, dealing with the constitutionality of the CFPB's funding mechanism. I'm pleased to announce that Patricia ...[more]Help us Brainstorm how the Bankruptcy System Could be Fairer to Low-income People and People of Color
10/19/2022 This past month, Nathalie (Martin) and I gave a talk at the Tenth Circuit Bench and Bar Conference on Credit, Race, Class, and Bankruptcy. After recounting some of the historical reasons for persistent wealth, income, and debt gaps among different races ...[more]Co Authoring in Legal Academia
06/09/2022 Co authoring saved me. Literally. But for the fact that my senior colleagues at UCLA did not care whether I ever wrote anything sole authored, I don't think I would have written anything. I was (and am) just too racked with insecurities. And then ...[more]Bye, Bye, ABI
02/25/2022 I have been an American Bankruptcy Institute member since June 1999, but I have finally made the difficult decision to allow my membership to lapse after 22 years at the end of next month. ...[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]Law School Rankings: How Much do They Really Matter?
02/03/2022 I've long assumed that law school rankings are very important to law student choices regarding where to attend school. After all, why else would law schools themselves care so much about the rankings -- sometimes even hiring and firing deans based on ...[more]The Miscalculations Underlying Miller & Zywicki's Payday Loan Paper
01/29/2022 Earlier this month Professors Todd Zywicki and Thomas Miller, Jr. wrote an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal arguing against payday loan regulation, based on their new empirical paper ...[more]A Better Way to Deal with Student Loan Debt
01/13/2022 My Georgetown colleague Jake Brooks and I have an op-ed in Politico about the best way to address the student loan debt problem. We argue that existing proposals for outright student debt relief, whether $10k, $50k, or everything, are problematic, at ...[more]The Blurring of Tech and Finance
01/13/2022 I have an op-ed in ProMarkets about how Apple leverages control of the iPhone's NFC chip to push the dominance of its platform into new areas that let it hoover up more consumer data. The NFC (near field communication) chip is what lets the iPhone do ...[more]New Year, New Data in Your Credit Score
01/10/2022 During 2021, reports from the CFPB and consumer advocates spotlighted the role of credit scoring in people's financial growth or stagnation and decline. These reports emphasized racial and ethnic disparities in credit scores and in complaints about ...[more]Non-Debtor Releases
11/16/2021 I have an op-ed in Bloomberg Law about the abuse of non-debtor releases . Many chapter 11 attorneys argue that non-debtor releases are an essential all-purpose deal lubricant and that the excesses of a few cases—Purdue Pharma, Boy Scouts—shouldn't ...[more]Non-Debtor Releases
11/16/2021 I have an op-ed in Bloomberg Law about the abuse of non-debtor releases . Many chapter 11 attorneys argue that non-debtor releases are an essential all-purpose deal lubricant and that the excesses of a few cases—Purdue Pharma, Boy Scouts—shouldn't ...[more]Who extracts the benefits of big business bankruptcy?
10/26/2021 The Deal has a new podcast ...[more]Scholars' Letter in Support of Saule Omarova
10/07/2021 President Biden has nominated Cornell Law Professor Saule Omarova to be the next Comptroller of the Currency. While the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency is not a well-known government agency outside of bank regulation circles, it is among the ...[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]