Author: Douglas G. BairdPublisher: Aspen Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Cases, Problems, and Materials on Bankruptcy
Author: Douglas G. BairdPublisher: Aspen Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Debt's Dominion
Author: David A. Skeel Jr.Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400828503
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Bankruptcy in America, in stark contrast to its status in most other countries, typically signifies not a debtor's last gasp but an opportunity to catch one's breath and recoup. Why has the nation's legal system evolved to allow both corporate and individual debtors greater control over their fate than imaginable elsewhere? Masterfully probing the political dynamics behind this question, David Skeel here provides the first complete account of the remarkable journey American bankruptcy law has taken from its beginnings in 1800, when Congress lifted the country's first bankruptcy code right out of English law, to the present day. Skeel shows that the confluence of three forces that emerged over many years--an organized creditor lobby, pro-debtor ideological currents, and an increasingly powerful bankruptcy bar--explains the distinctive contours of American bankruptcy law. Their interplay, he argues in clear, inviting prose, has seen efforts to legislate bankruptcy become a compelling battle royale between bankers and lawyers--one in which the bankers recently seem to have gained the upper hand. Skeel demonstrates, for example, that a fiercely divided bankruptcy commission and the 1994 Republican takeover of Congress have yielded the recent, ideologically charged battles over consumer bankruptcy. The uniqueness of American bankruptcy has often been noted, but it has never been explained. 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.
Modern Bankruptcy Manual: Law and Practice
Author: Bankruptcy and Insolvency Law in Canada
Author: Stephanie Ben-IshaiPublisher: Political Animal Press
ISBN: 9781895131406
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Handbook of Federal Indian Law
Author: Felix S. CohenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
Modern Bankruptcy Manual: Law and Practice
Author: Delaware Corporation Law and Practice
Author: David A. DrexlerPublisher:
ISBN: 9780820512457
Category : Corporation law
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Corporate Insolvency Law
Author: Vanessa FinchPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521626859
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description
Vanessa Finch provides an interesting look at corporate insolvency laws and processes. She adopts an interdisciplinary approach to place two questions at the centre of her discussion. Are current UK laws and procedures efficient, expert, accountable and fair? Are fundamentally different conceptions of insolvency law needed for it to develop in a way that serves corporate and broader social ends? Topics considered in this wide-ranging book include different ways of financing companies, causes of corporate failure and prospects for designing rescue-friendly processes. Also examined are alternative asset distribution of failed companies, allocations of insolvency risks and effects of insolvency on a company's directors and employees. Finch argues that changes of approach are needed if insolvency law is to develop with coherence and purpose. This book will appeal to academics and students at advanced undergraduate and graduate level, and to legal practitioners throughout the common law world.
The Law of Debtors and Creditors
Author: Elizabeth WarrenPublisher: Little Brown GBR
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 936
Book Description
Bankruptcy and Debt Collection in Liberal Capitalism
Author: Mischa SuterPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 047212885X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Drawing on perspectives from anthropology and social theory, this book explores the quotidian routines of debt collection in nineteenth-century capitalism. It focuses on Switzerland, an exemplary case of liberal rule. Debt collection and bankruptcy relied on received practices until they were standardized in a Swiss federal law in 1889. The vast array of these practices was summarized by the idiomatic Swiss legal term “Rechtstrieb” (literally, “law drive”). Analyzing these forms of summary justice opens a window to the makeshift economies and the contested political imaginaries of nineteenth-century everyday life. Ultimately, the book advances an empirically grounded and theoretically informed history of quotidian legal practices in the everyday economy; it is an argument for studying capitalism from the bottom up.