By Professor Lynn M. LoPucki (University of Florida Levin College of Law) In a study of venue for the one hundred ninety-five …
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Does Global Insolvency Law Affect Cross-border Capital Flows?
By Professor Yeejin Jang (School of Banking and Finance, University of New South Wales, Sydney), Jenny Jihyun Tak (School of …
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Equity for Intermediaries: The Resolution of Financial Firms in Bankruptcy and Bank Resolution
By Professor Edward J. Janger (Brooklyn Law School) Professor Edward J. Janger This Essay considers the role of bankruptcy …
FTX’d: Conflicting Public and Private Interests in Chapter 11
By Professor Jonathan C. Lipson (Temple University- James E. Beasley School of Law) and Professor David A. Skeel (University of …
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Mass Tort Bankruptcy Goes Public
By Professor William Organek (Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College) Large companies like 3M, Johnson & Johnson, …
The Legal Anomaly of Non-Recourse Financing
By Professor Steven Schwarcz (Duke University School of Law) and Christina Trepczynski (Duke University School of Law JD …
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Against Bankruptcy; Bankruptcy by Another Name
Editor's Note: As the Supreme Court considers the bankruptcy of Purdue Pharma and whether the nonconsensual nondebtor releases …
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The Potential of Trust Law in Sovereign Debt Restructuring Unveiled
By Charles Mak (The Law School, Robert Gordon University) The interplay between sovereign debt defaults and legal frameworks …
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Filling an Empty Arsenal: Puerto Rico’s Bankruptcy from the Recovery Act to PROMESA
By Richard Cooper (Cleary Gottlieb) and Antonio Pietrantoni (Pietrantoni Mendez & Alvarez) Editor's Note: This article was …
Institutional Capture: Why We’re Overdue for a New Bankruptcy Act
By Jessica Graham (Harvard Law School) Injustice does not exist only in matters of civil rights, human dignity, and economic …
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How Do Bankruptcy Grifters Destroy Value in Mass Tort Settlements? In re Purdue Pharma as a Bargaining Failure
By Jason Jia-Xi Wu (Harvard Law School '23) Bankruptcy has become the endgame of mass tort litigation. Increasingly, …
[Purdue Pharma Bankruptcy Series] The Rule of the Deal: Bankruptcy Bargains and Other Misnomers and Sorting Bugs and Features of Mass Tort Bankruptcy
Editor's Note: On August 10, 2023, the Supreme Court of the United States agreed to hear the appeal of the bankruptcy of Purdue …
[Purdue Pharma Bankruptcy Series] Senate Judiciary Committee Subcommittee Hearing on “Evading Accountability: Corporate Manipulation of Chapter 11 Bankruptcy”: A Recap
Editor's Note: On August 10, 2023, the Supreme Court of the United States agreed to hear the appeal of the bankruptcy of …
Silencing Litigation Through Bankruptcy
By Pamela Foohey (Yeshiva University - Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law) and Christopher K. Odinet (University of Iowa - College …
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Generalized Creditors and Particularized Creditors: Against a Unified Theory of Standing in Bankruptcy
By Jeanne L. Schroeder and David Gray Carlson (Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law) Courts have struggled toward a unified …
Bankruptcy Amnesia
By Jonathan Lipson (Temple University Beasley School of Law) [Editor's Note: The author represented, on a pro bono basis, an …
Financial Disequilibrium
By Samir Parikh (Lewis & Clark Law School) Corporate bankruptcy cases have recently undergone a shift. After decades where …
[Crypto-Bankruptcy Series] Crypto Volatility and The Pine Gate Problem
By Anthony Casey (University of Chicago), Brook Gotberg (Brigham Young University), and Joshua Macey (University of …
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[Texas Two-Step and the Future of Mass Tort Bankruptcy Series] Postscript and Analysis of Third Circuit Dismissal of LTL Management’s Bankruptcy
Editor's Note: On November 1, 2022, the BRT concluded our eight-part series on the Texas Two-Step, the bankruptcy of LTL …
Please Don’t Forget the Victims: Mass Torts, Third Party Releases and the U.S. Bankruptcy Code
By Marshall S. Huebner and Marc J. Tobak (Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP) [Editor's Note: The authors, along with other …