the Intellectual Property Bankruptcy Protection Act, 1987 as a knee-jerk reaction to the decision of the Fourth Circuit … certiorari to attend to the circuit split. Part 4 draws a parallel between the Indian Bankruptcy Law and its US counterpart. The … filings of bankruptcy under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code, is given an option to rescind ‘burdensome’ and ‘onerous …

I develop an equilibrium model of housing and default to jointly analyze the effects of bankruptcy and foreclosure … debt. I show that the interaction between foreclosure and bankruptcy decisions is crucial for explaining the observed cross …-state correlation between default policies and default rates. I use the model to argue that a major recent reform to bankruptcy reduced …

individuals may file for bankruptcy or default on their mortgage. Uncertainty in the model is driven by house price shocks …, education specific productivity shocks, and catastrophic consumption events, while bankruptcy is governed by the basic … Bankruptcy policy. …

of their houses, lease the houses for one year, file bankruptcy, and propose mortgage modification plans that pay … in their homes. Until the Supreme Court's 1993 decision in Nobelman v. American Savings Bank, the bankruptcy system would … have provided many such homeowners with a remedy. They could have filed bankruptcy, discharged the negative equity …

This study discusses the many factors and considerations that enter into the strategic mortgage default (SMD) decision …

connection with equitable property, resulting trusts and remedial constructive trusts, tracing and bankruptcy, the treatment of …

Section 365 of the Bankruptcy Code (“Code”), which focuses on the post-petition continuation of pre …-in-possession (“DIP”) in all bankruptcy cases. Perhaps recognizing this bequest's potential for abuse, Congress required assumption within … of the “most powerful tools” in any bankruptcy trustee's arsenal, one constrained by time's passage in Chapter 7 cases …