use of bankruptcy. We formalize a distinction between strategic filing and adverse events filing by testing whether …

In the U.S., individuals who file for bankruptcy can protect a certain amount of property from creditor liquidation …

In 2016, the Indian Parliament passed the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC). The Government has chosen to notify … only the part on corporate insolvency. It is expected that the part on personal insolvency will be notified for individuals … argument for the need for personal insolvency law. It provides a brief overview of the provisions on personal insolvency in the …

This article explores the gendering of modern consumerism through the lens of Chapter 7 bankruptcy. The changes made by … the 2005 Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act (BAPCPA) expose that the punitive nature of bankruptcy … critical theory being applied to subjects like bankruptcy. By combining cultural analysis, legal theory, and macroeconomics …

In the U.S., individual parties who file for bankruptcy can exempt a certain dollar amount of property from creditor … businesses. Our results indicate that additional debtor protection, brought about by changes to bankruptcy laws, significantly …

Unlike any other consumer debt, student loans are not dischargeable through the normal bankruptcy process. Instead, for … legislative history, and the policy rationales underlying the Bankruptcy Code, courts have misclassified billions of dollars of …

Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act's (BAPCPA) effect on the Chapter 11 landscape. Two samples are tested: a …. Indeed, in the post-amendments era, debtors are increasingly using §363 of the Bankruptcy Code to exit Chapter 11 within a … few months after filing for bankruptcy. Now debtors do not spend time negotiating with their creditors to write down debt …

main lesson of Morrison and Uettwiller's essay on Consumer Bankruptcy Pathologies (Morrison and Uettwiller, 2017). The … essay is a major contribution to the literature on consumer bankruptcy, not for the new answers it provides, but for the old … bankruptcy system is both racially skewed and ineffective and that lawyers are in large part responsible. Morrison and Uettwiller …