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Full-Text Articles in Law
Bankruptcy And Mortgage Lending: The Homeowner Dilemma, A. Mechele Dickerson
Bankruptcy And Mortgage Lending: The Homeowner Dilemma, A. Mechele Dickerson
Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Race Matters In Bankruptcy, A. Mechele Dickerson
Race Matters In Bankruptcy, A. Mechele Dickerson
Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Abandonments In Bankruptcy: Unifying Competing Tax And Bankruptcy Policies, Michelle A. Cecil
Abandonments In Bankruptcy: Unifying Competing Tax And Bankruptcy Policies, Michelle A. Cecil
Faculty Publications
This Article attempts to resolve one such issue: the tax consequences of property abandonments by the bankruptcy trustee.
The A.H. Robins Bankruptcy, Jeb Gerth, Ed Meade, Ryan Russell
The A.H. Robins Bankruptcy, Jeb Gerth, Ed Meade, Ryan Russell
Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Case Studies
No abstract provided.
The Security Of Securitization And The Future Of Security, Thomas E. Plank
The Security Of Securitization And The Future Of Security, Thomas E. Plank
Scholarly Works
The securitization of mortgage loans and other receivables benefits society and rests on a strong legal foundation. Securitization lowers the financing costs for borrowers and originators of loans by avoiding the costs imposed by the Bankruptcy Code on the secured creditors of operating companies. This article demonstrates how securitization avoids these costs by combining two long recognized legal devices, (1) a true sale of receivables to a buyer (2) that is a separate legal entity whose sole purpose is to finance the receivables. This structure separates the risks associated with the receivables, which creditors can more easily assess, from the …
Let's Make It Official: Adding An Explicit Preplan Sale Process As An Alternative Exit From Bankruptcy, George Kuney
Let's Make It Official: Adding An Explicit Preplan Sale Process As An Alternative Exit From Bankruptcy, George Kuney
Scholarly Works
No abstract provided.
The Erie Doctrine And Bankruptcy, Thomas E. Plank
The Erie Doctrine And Bankruptcy, Thomas E. Plank
Scholarly Works
No abstract provided.
Self-Organizing Legal Systems: Precedent And Variation In Bankruptcy, Bernard Trujillo
Self-Organizing Legal Systems: Precedent And Variation In Bankruptcy, Bernard Trujillo
Law Faculty Publications
Models of legal ordering are frequently hierarchical. These models do not explain two prominent realities: (1) variation in the content of a legal system, and (2) patterns of non-hierarchical ordering that we observe. As a supplement to hierarchical explanations of legal order, this Article, drawing from physical and social science research on complex systems, offers a self-organizing model. The self-organizing model focuses on variation in the content of legal systems and attempts to explain the relationship between that variation and patterns of ordering. The self-organizing model demonstrates that variation and ordering are not opposite categories, but rather constitute one continuous …
Landlords Draws Upon Letters Of Credit In Bankruptcy: Redback Networks V Mayan Networks, 2004, Roger Bernhardt
Landlords Draws Upon Letters Of Credit In Bankruptcy: Redback Networks V Mayan Networks, 2004, Roger Bernhardt
Publications
This article discusses a California case where a landlord was entitled to fully draw down on a tenant’s letter of credit that was smaller than its rent claim and also smaller than a year’s rent.
Non-Procrustean Bankruptcy, Richard M. Hynes
Non-Procrustean Bankruptcy, Richard M. Hynes
Faculty Publications
Many advocates of bankruptcy reform bristle at aspects of the bankruptcy system they find distributively "unfair." These scholars point to the instances in which wealthy debtors have been able to retain million-dollar homes and luxury items, examples which at first glance might offend any reasonable sense of decency or fairness. Yet if bankruptcy provides insurance otherwise unavailable because of market failures, then an ideal bankruptcy system would embrace much of this inequality in post-bankruptcy standards of living. The wealthy generally choose private contracts that ensure their high standards of living. Though others envy these benefits, they do not wish to …
Recent Developments In Bankruptcy Law, Nancy B. Rapoport
Recent Developments In Bankruptcy Law, Nancy B. Rapoport
Scholarly Works
Discussion of 2004 cases regarding bankruptcy law.
An Empirical Investigation Of Liquidation Choices Of Failed High Tech Firms, Ronald J. Mann
An Empirical Investigation Of Liquidation Choices Of Failed High Tech Firms, Ronald J. Mann
Faculty Scholarship
Perhaps it is merely a reflection of my interests, but to my mind, empirical research requires a certain risk-preferent boldness. I like projects that explore how and why particular businesses make important decisions. After I identify a topic, I typically try to gather as much qualitative and quantitative information about it as I can, with the expectation that when I have learned a great deal about the topic something interesting will emerge that relates in some important way to an ongoing academic debate. Those projects usually do not begin with a specific hypothesis to prove or disprove-often either answer will …
Bankruptcy's Acephalous Moment: Postpetition Transfers Under The Bankruptcy Code, David G. Carlson
Bankruptcy's Acephalous Moment: Postpetition Transfers Under The Bankruptcy Code, David G. Carlson
Articles
No abstract provided.
The Past, Present And Future Of Debtor-In-Possession Financing, David A. Skeel Jr.
The Past, Present And Future Of Debtor-In-Possession Financing, David A. Skeel Jr.
All Faculty Scholarship
Chapter 11's distinctive post-petition financing rules trace their ancestry back to the origins of large scale corporate reorganization in America in the nineteenth century. In this sense, post-petition financing has always been with us. But in the past decade, the role of the financers has changed. After a century in the shadows, post-petition lenders have stepped onto center stage. The DIP loan agreement has become the single most important governance lever in many large Chapter 11 cases. Why have these formerly bashful financers suddenly started hogging the spotlight? I argue in this article that the generous terms offered to DIP …
Bankruptcy's Home Economics, David A. Skeel Jr.
Bankruptcy's Home Economics, David A. Skeel Jr.
All Faculty Scholarship
This essay began its life as a commentary on Elizabeth Warren’s article “The New Economics of the American Family” at the American Bankruptcy Institute's 25th Anniversary Symposium of the Bankruptcy Code in 2003. (Both the Warren article and my commentary were published in the symposium in the American Bankruptcy Institute Law Review.) “The New Economics of the American Family” was drawn in many respects from then-Professor Warren’s co-authored book, The Two Income Trap. The essay refers to both, though it puts particular emphasis on the article. The essay begins by briefly describing the basic thesis of the article-- …
On Proof Of Preferential Effect, Rafael I. Pardo
On Proof Of Preferential Effect, Rafael I. Pardo
Scholarship@WashULaw
This Article presents a comprehensive analysis of the manner in which the trustee of a debtor's estate may satisfy his burden of proof to demonstrate the preferential effect of a prebankruptcy transfer from a debtor to a creditor. The proposed framework, if adhered to by courts, will create a uniformity that gives preference law its proper reach and thereby reinforces its primary goal: equal treatment of similarly situated creditors (the equality principle). After examining the historical developments that have made a trustee's evidentiary burden administratively less complex, the Article discusses the Ninth Circuit's decision in Batlan v. TransAmerica Commercial Finance …
Bankrupting Trademarks, Xuan-Thao Nguyen
Bankrupting Trademarks, Xuan-Thao Nguyen
Articles
The explosive growth of technology in the last two decades has vastly expanded intellectual property jurisprudence and elevated intellectual property to a heightened status in the marketplace. Indeed, a company's intellectual property assets may now be its most valuable corporate assets. Moreover, the property value of some trademarks is significantly greater than that of the trademark owner's physical assets.
The term “intellectual property” is commonly understood to include patents, trade secrets, copyrights, and trademarks. Yet a paradigm has been constructed and enforced over the last fifteen years wherein only patents, trade secrets, and copyrights are included. The paradigm specifically excludes …
Hijacking Chapter 11, George Kuney
Hijacking Chapter 11, George Kuney
College of Law Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Let's Make It Official: Adding An Explicit Preplan Sale Process As An Alternative Exit From Bankruptcy, George Kuney
Let's Make It Official: Adding An Explicit Preplan Sale Process As An Alternative Exit From Bankruptcy, George Kuney
College of Law Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Hijacking Chapter 11, George Kuney
Indemnity, Liability, Insolvency, David G. Carlson
Indemnity, Liability, Insolvency, David G. Carlson
Articles
Suppose A has a claim against B. B has a claim over against C. B, however, is insolvent and has not actually paid A. B's only asset is, in fact, B v C. To what extent can C claim that B v C is valueless - that B was not damaged because B was too broke to pay A?
This paper argues that the fundamental legal distinction between indemnity and liability is beginning to dissolve, because B can always pay A (and thereby give value to B v C) by borrowing the amount B owes and using B v C …
Death And Resurrection Of Secured Credit, James J. White
Death And Resurrection Of Secured Credit, James J. White
Articles
The Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978 (the Code) posed palpable threats to secured creditors. It was drafted by a commission that was at least as concerned with the rights of debtors as with the rights of creditors. It was modified and adopted by a Congress that might have been the most liberal since World War II and signed into law by President Carter at the apogee of the left's power, two years before the Reagan election that marked the rise of the right and the beginning of the left's decline. The power of the left was exerted most forcefully on …