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International Environmental Bankruptcy: An Overview Of Environmental Bankruptcy Law, Including A State's Claims Against The Multinational Polluter, Rick M. Reznicsek

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

This Note focuses on current environmental bankruptcy law in the United States. It analyzes the claims of a state against a corporate polluter when the corporation discharges a toxic substance in violation of the state's environmental laws, refuses to clean up the waste, and then files bankruptcy in lieu of paying for the cleanup.

This Note analyzes the court decisions subsequent to the United States Supreme Court opinions in Ohio v. Kovacs and Midlantic National Bank v. New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection to evaluate the current status of United States bankruptcy law on the issues of the automatic stay; …

Successor Liability In Bankruptcy: Some Unifying Themes Of Intertemporal Creditor Priorities Created By Running Covenants, Products Liability, And Toxic-Waste Cleanup, David G. Carlson

Articles

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United States Judicial Assistance In Cross-Border Insolvencies, Douglass G. Boshkoff

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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Case Comments--International Law--Corporations--State Denied Standing To Sue For Injury, Journal Staff

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

The Barcelona Traction, Light and Power Company, Ltd.,(hereinafter referred to as Barcelona Traction) was incorporated under Canadian law in 1911 with its main office in Toronto. Several subsidiaries were formed, all under Canadian law, to develop, produce, and distribute electric power in the vicinity of Catalonia, Spain. To finance these operations, the company issued both peseta and sterling bonds, the shares in some of the subsidiaries providing security to a Canadian bank for the sterling bonds. Revenue produced by the subsidiaries from their operations in Spain was used to service the bond interest. Servicing was suspended for the duration of …

Book Reviews, Frank R. Kennedy, William G. Rice, Clyde Eagleton, William E. Britton, Bernard D. Meltzer, Harry Kalven Jr.

Journal of Legal Education

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Book Reviews

Michigan Law Review

A collection of book reviews by multiple authors.

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Acknowledgement--Impeachment--Examination of Married Woman; Bankruptcy--Discharge--Libel; Bankruptcy--Selection of Trustee--Right of Creditors to Elect; Bills and Notes--Genuine Draft with Forged Bill of Lading; Bills and Notes--Release of Indorsers; Carriers--Refulsal to Give Transer--Passenger's Motive in Requesting; Covenants--covenant Against Incumbrances--Runs with the Land; Deeds--Parties--One Not Names as Grantor Signing; Elections--Corrupt Practices Act--who is a Candidate; elections--voting Machines--Statute Unconstitutional; Eminent Domain--Taking of railroad Right of Way for Street Purposes--Measure of Damages; Equity--maxims--application in Suit for Divorce on Statutory Grounds; Evidence--Opinion as to One's Physical Condition--Expert Testimony; Foreign Corporations--Right to do business in State can Become Vested; Foreign Corporations--Service of Process on--What Constitutes "Doing Business"; Foreign …

Note And Comment, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Lawyers and Jurists at the Exposition; Convention of the Commercial Law League of America; The Philippine Island Cases in the Supreme Court of the United States; The Writ of Habeas Corpus in Chinese Exclusion Cases; What is a "Crime" Within the Meaning of the Constitution?; Due Process of Law; Winding up Proceedings; Literary Criticism and the Law of Libel; The New Japanese Civil Code;