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Making Debtor Remedies More Effective, Melissa B. Jacoby
Making Debtor Remedies More Effective, Melissa B. Jacoby
Melissa B. Jacoby
Commissioned for a conference on credit markets at Harvard Business School in February 2010, this paper explores functional system design and the role of lawyers and intermediaries in providing debtor remedies in a complex legal system. The thesis of this paper, which proceeds in the “law and society” tradition, is that the location of a remedial right within the debtor-creditor system substantially affects the costs and benefits of the remedy for debtors, creditors, the system, and society. In other words, merely adding specific substantive provisions does not directly translate into actual protection. Relatedly, policymakers must recognize that lawyers and other …
Commercial Transactions: Secured Financing: Cases, Materials, Problems, Ingrid Hillinger, Raymond Nimmer, Michael Hillinger
Commercial Transactions: Secured Financing: Cases, Materials, Problems, Ingrid Hillinger, Raymond Nimmer, Michael Hillinger
Ingrid Michelsen Hillinger
Accompanied by Commercial Transactions: Secured Financing: Cases, Materials, Problems, 2nd ed. Teacher's Manual, by Nimmer, Hillinger and Hillinger. New York: Lexis Publishing, 2000