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Bankruptcy Law In Perspective: A Rejoinder, Theodore Eisenberg
Bankruptcy Law In Perspective: A Rejoinder, Theodore Eisenberg
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
Professor Harris challenges my argument that bankruptcy reform takes place in an environment too isolated from the rest of the legal world. He also challenges each of the three illustrations I offered to support my thesis. Discussion of his views on the environment in which reform occurs is best deferred until after discussion of his analysis of my three illustrations.
A Critique Of The Business-Purpose Doctrine, Robert S. Summers
A Critique Of The Business-Purpose Doctrine, Robert S. Summers
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
The aims of this article are: (1) to define the nature and significance of the business-purpose doctrine as applied in the field of Federal income taxation; (2) to summarize several considerations that support abandonment of the doctrine; and (3) to consider whether a substitute doctrine is needed. Several recent cases indicate that the influence of the business-purpose doctrine is declining, and in the recent case of Knetsch v. United States the Supreme Court appears to have substituted an alternative doctrine. The dual thesis of the present article is that the business-purpose doctrine ought to be abandoned and that there is …