A careful analysis of the fundamentals of bankruptcy law.
As different as twenty-first century America is from the horse-and-buggy era origins of our bankruptcy laws, Skeel shows that the same political factors continue to shape our unique response to financial distress.
Cases, Problems, and Materials on Bankruptcy
In this Research Handbook, today's leading experts on the law and economics of corporate bankruptcy address fundamental issues such as the efficiency of bankruptcy, the role and treatment of creditors - particularly secured creditors - in ...
If a claim other than one based on a publicly traded note, bond, or debenture has been transferred for security before proof of the claim has been filed, the transferor or transferee or both may file a proof of claim for the full amount ...
The authors provide a systematic review of the Chinese Enterprise Bankruptcy Law's major provisions, from the comparative perspective of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code in particular.
See Marilyn F. Johnson, Ron Kasznik and Karen K. Nelson, The Impact ofSecurities Litigation Reform on the Disclosure of Forward—Looking Information by High Technology Firrns, 39 JOURNAL OF ACCOUNTING RESEARCH 297 (2001) (finding a ...
This edition retains the structure of the casebook's earlier editions, but expands its focus to capture the ways that current bankruptcy practice has been reshaped by lawyers and judges.
This volume analyses corporate insolvency law as a coherent whole, stemming from common fundamental principles and amenable to being justified or criticised on that basis.
Notes 20 Austin, R.P. and Ramsay, I.M. Ford's Principles of Corporations ... The Commentaries on the Laws of Scotland in 1826 did though give hints to an insolvency priority when it suggested that wages of domestic servants should be ...
This interdisciplinary examination of corporate insolvency law assesses recent reforms and anticipates new legislation.