These are the goals of this article. In particular, this article analyzes the legislative history of the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 19783 and related materials, in the hope of describing the influence of interest groups on the final statute. It has, of course, long been assumed that certain narrow provisions of the 1978 Act reflect the influence of interest groups - for example, the section that gives special protection to security and lease interests in aircraft. This article goes farther and argues that fundamental elements of the 1978 Act reflect political compromises among competing interest groups. In particular, I claim (1) that the allocation of powers to bankruptcy judges and trustees resulted from efforts by Congress to increase its ...
The Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978 (the Code) posed palpable threats to secured creditors. It was dra...
This Article discusses the continuing contraction of business reorganization under the Bankruptcy Co...
This Article explores certain important constitutional challenges presented by bankruptcy. Article I...
These are the goals of this article. In particular, this article analyzes the legislative history of...
The political atmosphere in which changes to the American bankruptcy laws occur has shifted since th...
Like much of life, the study of bankruptcy is the study of leverage. Chapter 11 of the United States...
Anticipating a wave of bankruptcies caused by the economic and financial effects of the COVID-19 pan...
For almost a decade, members of Congress fiercely debated legislation that would make it harder for ...
The accepted economic function of bankruptcy law is that it resolves collective action problems betw...
Business failure negatively affects a broad range of interests, yet the bankruptcy process directly ...
This article examines the effort to maximize judicial control over the bankruptcy process and its im...
This Article reports some of the results of an empirical study of the bankruptcy reorganization of l...
Economic analysis is applied to bankruptcy law. Property right are reassigned in this court administ...
This Article empirically examines whether courts of appeals judges cast ideological votes in the ban...
Both ideology and interest group interventions are important in voting on bankruptcy legislation. Ro...
The Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978 (the Code) posed palpable threats to secured creditors. It was dra...
This Article discusses the continuing contraction of business reorganization under the Bankruptcy Co...
This Article explores certain important constitutional challenges presented by bankruptcy. Article I...
These are the goals of this article. In particular, this article analyzes the legislative history of...
The political atmosphere in which changes to the American bankruptcy laws occur has shifted since th...
Like much of life, the study of bankruptcy is the study of leverage. Chapter 11 of the United States...
Anticipating a wave of bankruptcies caused by the economic and financial effects of the COVID-19 pan...
For almost a decade, members of Congress fiercely debated legislation that would make it harder for ...
The accepted economic function of bankruptcy law is that it resolves collective action problems betw...
Business failure negatively affects a broad range of interests, yet the bankruptcy process directly ...
This article examines the effort to maximize judicial control over the bankruptcy process and its im...
This Article reports some of the results of an empirical study of the bankruptcy reorganization of l...
Economic analysis is applied to bankruptcy law. Property right are reassigned in this court administ...
This Article empirically examines whether courts of appeals judges cast ideological votes in the ban...
Both ideology and interest group interventions are important in voting on bankruptcy legislation. Ro...
The Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978 (the Code) posed palpable threats to secured creditors. It was dra...
This Article discusses the continuing contraction of business reorganization under the Bankruptcy Co...
This Article explores certain important constitutional challenges presented by bankruptcy. Article I...