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New Resource on Uniform Commercial Code Reform for Digital Assets including Crytocurrency
11/22/2022 Earlier this fall I linked to a variety of resources, including webinars, on amendments to the Uniform Commercial Code to account for various types of digital assets . The scope includes but is not limited to commercial transactions involving ...[more]Unbundling Business Bankruptcy Law
09/28/2022 A long-in-process draft article has just become available to be downloaded and read here . Comments remain welcome. The Weinstein Company bankruptcy features prominently in this draft article. ...[more]The decline and fall of commercial law
04/13/2022 A listserv post this morning accentuated a troubling trend at the intersection of commercial law and bankruptcy practice: a marked decline in confident expertise in the former. ...[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]Are Mortgage Servicers Ready for the Loan Mod Rush?
05/10/2021 On May 4, the CFPB issued a report sharing information the agency had gathered about mortgage forbearances and delinquencies. One notable takeaway is that Black and Brown homeowners, as well as low-income homeowners, are very prevalent among those in ...[more]Greensill "Secured" Lending
03/17/2021 Slips readers will be interested in Matt Levine's column today , which takes a deep dive into the recently failed Greensill's lending against “prospective receivables,” which is kind of like lending against my prospective estate in Scotland. ...[more]Commercial and Contract Law: Questions, Ideas, Jargon
12/01/2020 In the Spring I am teaching a research and writing seminar called Advanced Commercial Law and Contracts. Credit Slips readers have been important resources for project ideas in the past, and I'd appreciate hearing what you have seen out in the world ...[more]Do Judges Do Contract Interpretation Differently During Crisis Times?
09/01/2019 Scholars of constitutional law and judicial behavior have long conjectured that judges behave differently during times of crisis. ...[more]Lowdermilk on Family Farmers in Financial Trouble - new paper!
06/28/2019 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 ...[more]New Paper: Consumer Protection After the Global Financial Crisis
02/13/2019 Historian Ed Balleisen and I have just posted a paper of interest to Credit Slips readers who are interested in consumer protection, financial crises, and inputs into post-crisis policymaking more generally. I will let the abstract speak for itself: ...[more]New (from the archives) paper on determinants of personal bankruptcy
02/13/2019 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 ...[more]What Skews the Public-Private Balance in Corporate Bankruptcy Cases?
09/13/2018 In a prior Credit Slips post , I shared a paper, Corporate Bankruptcy Hybridity , positing that bankruptcy should be conceptualized as a public-private partnership. ...[more]In the Zone: The Weinstein Co. Chapter 11 Hearings #9-13
09/12/2018 Since my last Credit Slips post about The Weinstein Co. chapter 11, there have been five public hearings/status conferences (some of which were telephonic). Disparate observations from those hearings below. ...[more]Timing and Process in Crystallex v. PDVSA
09/04/2018 In an earlier post , I noted some open questions that had to be answered before Crystallex could execute on PDVSA’s 100% ownership stake in PDV Holding (PDV-H). ...[more]Corporate Bankruptcy as a Public-Private Partnership
08/20/2018 I have just posted on the Social Science Research Network a forthcoming article called Corporate Bankruptcy Hybridity . ...[more]MoviePass Bankruptcy Watch
08/02/2018 The financial travails of MoviePass and its parent company Helios & Matheson caught my eye today. ...[more]Wacky Warehouse Lien Scam
02/14/2018 The US Trustee's office just prevailed in a sanctions case against a law firm with a most creative fee scam. To oversimplify (and leave out certain other issues of bad behavior), the law firm steered debtors who owned cars in which they had zero ...[more]Call for Commercial Law Topics (and Jargon!)
12/18/2017 For the spring semester, I am offering advanced commercial law and contracts seminar for UNC students, and have gathered resources to inspire students on paper topic selection as well as to guide what we otherwise will cover. But given the breadth of what ...[more]