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Author | : Mary Eschelbach Hansen |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 237 |
Release | : 2020-02-05 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 022667973X |
In 2005, more than two million Americans—six out of every 1,000 people—filed for bankruptcy. Though personal bankruptcy rates have since stabilized, bankruptcy remains an important tool for the relief of financially distressed households. In Bankrupt in America, Mary and Brad Hansen offer a vital perspective on the history of bankruptcy in America, beginning with the first lasting federal bankruptcy law enacted in 1898. Interweaving careful legal history and rigorous economic analysis, Bankrupt in America is the first work to trace how bankruptcy was transformed from an intermittently used constitutional provision, to an indispensable tool for business, to a central element of the social safety net for ordinary Americans. To do this, the authors track federal bankruptcy law, as well as related state and federal laws, examining the interaction between changes in the laws and changes in how people in each state used the bankruptcy law. In this thorough investigation, Hansen and Hansen reach novel conclusions about the causes and consequences of bankruptcy, adding nuance to the discussion of the relationship between bankruptcy rates and economic performance.
Author | : Teresa A. Sullivan |
Publisher | : Beard Books |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781893122154 |
Bankruptcy in America is a booming business, with hundreds of thousands of ordinary Americans filing for bankruptcy each year. Is this dramatic growth a result of mushrooming debt or does it reflect a moral decline that permits the middle class to evade their debts? As We Forgive Our Debtors addresses these questions with hard empirical data drawn from bankruptcy court filings. The authors of this multidisciplinary study describe the law and the statistics in clear, nontechnical language, combining a thorough statistical description of the social and economic position of consumer bankrupts with human portraits of the debtors and creditors whose journeys have ended in bankruptcy court. Book jacket.
Author | : Stijn Claessens |
Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Bankruptcy |
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Author | : David A. Skeel Jr. |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2014-04-24 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1400828503 |
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.
Author | : Lynn LoPucki |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 335 |
Release | : 2006-02-14 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0472031708 |
An eye-opening account of the widespread and systematic decay of America's bankruptcy courts
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Total Pages | : 14 |
Release | : 1985 |
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Author | : American Bar Association. House of Delegates |
Publisher | : American Bar Association |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9781590318737 |
The Model Rules of Professional Conduct provides an up-to-date resource for information on legal ethics. Federal, state and local courts in all jurisdictions look to the Rules for guidance in solving lawyer malpractice cases, disciplinary actions, disqualification issues, sanctions questions and much more. In this volume, black-letter Rules of Professional Conduct are followed by numbered Comments that explain each Rule's purpose and provide suggestions for its practical application. The Rules will help you identify proper conduct in a variety of given situations, review those instances where discretionary action is possible, and define the nature of the relationship between you and your clients, colleagues and the courts.
Author | : Stephen G. Moyer |
Publisher | : J. Ross Publishing |
Total Pages | : 518 |
Release | : 2004-11-15 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1932159185 |
Providing theoretical and practical insight, this book presents a conceptual, but not overly technical, outline of the financial and bankruptcy law context in which restructurings take place. The author uses numerous real- world examples to demonstrate concepts and critical issues. Readers will understand the chess-like, multi- move strategies necessary to achieve financially advantageous results.
Author | : Henry J. Sommer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1438 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Bankruptcy |
ISBN | : 9781602481145 |
Author | : Eyal Zamir |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 641 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0190901349 |
In the past few decades, economic analysis of law has been challenged by a growing body of experimental and empirical studies that attest to prevalent and systematic deviations from the assumptions of economic rationality. While the findings on bounded rationality and heuristics and biases were initially perceived as antithetical to standard economic and legal-economic analysis, over time they have been largely integrated into mainstream economic analysis, including economic analysis of law. Moreover, the impact of behavioral insights has long since transcended purely economic analysis of law: in recent years, the behavioral movement has become one of the most influential developments in legal scholarship in general. Behavioral Law and Economics offers a state-of-the-art overview of the field. Eyal Zamir and Doron Teichman survey the entire body of psychological research that lies at the basis of behavioral analysis of law, and critically evaluate the core methodological questions of this area of research. Following this, the book discusses the fundamental normative questions stemming from the psychological findings on bounded rationality, and explores their implications for setting the law's goals and designing the means to attain them. The book then provides a systematic and critical examination of the contributions of behavioral studies to all major fields of law including: property, contracts, consumer protection, torts, corporate, securities regulation, antitrust, administrative, constitutional, international, criminal, and evidence law, as well as to the behavior of key players in the legal arena: litigants and judicial decision-makers.