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 …
Balancing Debtor and Creditors’ Interests in Bankruptcy Reorganization Proceedings: Best Practices for the Procedural Design of Claims’ Classification
By Anaïs Alle (Harvard Law School, L.L.M. 2022) Reorganization proceedings, in contrast to liquidation sales, constitute a …
[Texas Two-Step and the Future of Mass Tort Bankruptcy Series] A Different Look at Sec. 548 and Concluding Thoughts
Note: This is the eighth in a series of posts on the Texas Two-Step, the bankruptcy of LTL Management, and the future of mass tort …
Changes and Convergence of Bankruptcy Law: Recent Experience in Brazil
By Joao Guilherme Thiesi da Silva (Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP) Bankruptcy regimes across the globe have been …
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“A Bitter Result”: Purdue Pharma, a Sackler Bankruptcy Filing, and Improving Monetary and Nonmonetary Recoveries in Mass Tort Bankruptcies
By William Organek (Harvard Law School) Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin, filed for bankruptcy in 2019 to resolve …
[Texas Two-Step and the Future of Mass Tort Bankruptcy Series] The Texas Two-Step and Mandatory Non-Opt-Out Settlement Powers
By Ralph Brubaker (University of Illinois College of Law) Note: This is the sixth in a series of posts on the Texas Two-Step, the …
[Texas Two-Step and the Future of Mass Tort Bankruptcy Series] Is the Texas Two-Step a Proper Chapter 11 Dance?
By David Skeel (University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School) Note: This is the fifth in a series of posts on the Texas Two-Step, …
[Texas Two-Step and the Future of Mass Tort Bankruptcy Series] A Qualified Defense of Divisional Mergers
By Anthony Casey and Joshua Macey (University of Chicago Law School) Note: This is the fourth in a series of posts on the Texas …