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Procedural Incrementalism: A Model For International Bankruptcy, John A. E. Pottow
Procedural Incrementalism: A Model For International Bankruptcy, John A. E. Pottow
Law & Economics Working Papers Archive: 2003-2009
From Parmalat to Yukos, the pace of cross-border bankruptcy filings has been accelerating. Scholarly attention and policy reform have increasingly focused on the financial distress of enterprises with assets and creditors dispersed throughout multiple jurisdictions. Yet despite ongoing globalization and economic integration, insolvency law has remained stubbornly resistant to treaties and other international efforts to design some form of unified, global regime for resolving private financial defaults. Part of the reason progress remains so elusive is that two competing paradigms of international bankruptcy – universalism and territorialism – continue to divide academics and policymakers alike. Proposed treaties premised on one …