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Promoting Commercial Law Reform In Eastern Europe, Samuel Bufford
Promoting Commercial Law Reform In Eastern Europe, Samuel Bufford
Hon. Samuel L. Bufford
This article is my account of what I did in a decade of advising governments and teaching judicial seminars on commercial law matters in Central and Eastern Europe, beginning in 1991. This article contains my individual reflections on more than a dozen visits to developing countries in Central and Eastern Europe to advise governments and to educate their judges, and several visits of judges from some of those countries to the United States. In many ways, my experiences are typical of United States judges who have done the same kind of work in developing countries. In some ways, my experiences …
International Insolvency Case Venue In The European Union: The Parmalat And Daisytek Controversies, Samuel Bufford
International Insolvency Case Venue In The European Union: The Parmalat And Daisytek Controversies, Samuel Bufford
Hon. Samuel L. Bufford
The European Union Insolvency Regulation (the EU Regulation) is a giant step forward in promoting international cooperation among EU countries for cross-border insolvency proceedings. It adopts a modified universalist solution to cross-border proceedings insofar as they are located within the EU. However, experience has shown that it needs improvement to work effectively. A venue battle now rages between courts of several European countries over which country's courts will administer particular cross-border proceedings and how the center of main interest is to be determined for this purpose. This Article begins with a detailed examination of the two principal cases where conflicts …
Global Venue Controls Are Coming: A Reply To Professor Lopucki, Samuel Bufford
Global Venue Controls Are Coming: A Reply To Professor Lopucki, Samuel Bufford
Hon. Samuel L. Bufford
This Article details my disagreements with Professor Lynn LoPucki's article "Global and out of Control" (79 Am. Bankr. L.J. 79). Part I discusses universalism and territorialism, especially the modified version of universalism that I support. Part II examines the international venue provisions of the Model Law and the EU Regulation. Part III introduces the relevant venue shopping cases. Only two groups of cases are relevant for the purpose of this paper: the French and German subsidiaries of Daisytek and Eurofood (a subsidiary of Parmalat SpA, the Italian conglomerate). None of the other cases that Professor LoPucki discusses was subject to …
Romanian Bankruptcy Law: A Central European Example, Samuel Bufford
Romanian Bankruptcy Law: A Central European Example, Samuel Bufford
Hon. Samuel L. Bufford
Romania now has one of the best-drafted bankruptcy laws in Central and Eastern Europe. The new Romanian bankruptcy law went into effect on August 26, 1995 and replaced the previous bankruptcy provisions in §695-987 of the Romanian Commercial Code, which was translated from the Italian Commercial Code of 1884 and enacted in 1887. While the commercial code fell into disuse during the Communist era, it was never repealed. After the Romanian revolution and the demise of Nicolae Ceauşescu at the end of 1989, the commercial code as well as the civil code remained good law and needed only to be …