The European Union Insolvency Regulation (the EU Regulation) is a giant step forward in promoting international cooperation among EU countries for cross-border insolvency proceedings. It adopts a modified universalist solution to cross-border proceedings insofar as they are located within the...

This Article examines the Eurofood-E.C.J. decision and evaluates its impact on the decisions of the Irish and the Italian courts to open main insolvency cases for Eurofood. This Article also addresses the broader international insolvency law issues that the E.C.J. decision left open. Part II of...

This paper identifies and investigates conceptual and empirical links among Russia?s disappointing growth performance of the mid-1990s, its costly and eventually unsuccessful stabilization, the macroeconomic meltdown of 1998 and the spectacular rise of non-payments. Non-payments developed into a...

While the intent of dominant cross border insolvency regimes such as the UNCITRAL Model Law and the European Union Insolvency Regulation on Cross Border Insolvency is to “universalize” the resolution of corporations operating across various jurisdictions, the ideal outcome of maximizing firm...

This chapter is intended to provide a concise and current summary of corporate bankruptcy and reorganization in Canada, under the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act and the Companies’ Creditors and Arrangements Act. Consumer bankruptcy and reorganization will be briefly touched on. This chapter is...

This paper examines the role of social networks in a household’s bankruptcy decision. Social networks may affect a household’s bankruptcy decision in many ways: they could provide information about the required paperwork, recommend an attorney, reduce the stigma associated with bankruptcy,...

Enforcement of environmental regulations and bankruptcy reorganization are diametrically opposed. A challenge exists to effectuate policies underlying state environmental legislation and federal bankruptcy legislation. These areas are of particular interest because of public concern for...

This Article argues that U.S. equity markets fail to offer a satisfactory listing venue for emerging firms. I contend that this lacuna is a manifestation of a flawed structure of equity-market regulation and that this void undermines entrepreneurship, jeopardizes the future of U.S. equity...

This article systematically examines sovereign debt restructuring in light of bankruptcy reorganization law principles. It proposes that a simple and arguably practical convention, based on just three of these principles, would encourage free market funding of troubled States, thereby avoiding...