By Vincent S.J. Buccola (University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School) What good can a corporate bankruptcy regime do in the …
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The New Bargaining Theory of Corporate Bankruptcy and Chapter 11’s Renegotiation Framework
By Anthony J. Casey (University of Chicago Law School) The prevailing theory of corporate bankruptcy law states that its purpose …
Absolute Priority Redux: First-Day Orders and Pre-Plan Settlements in Chapter 11 Post-Jevic
By Bruce Grohsgal (Delaware Law School Widener University) Bankruptcy’s absolute priority rule arose 150 years ago to prevent …
Debt Recharacterization Under State Law
By James M. Wilton (Ropes & Gray, LLP) The majority federal law test for recharacterization of insider debt in bankruptcy …
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How Specialized Courts Changed the Chinese Bankruptcy System
By Bo Li (Tsinghua University - PBC School of Finance) and Jacopo Ponticelli (Kellogg School of Management - Department of …
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Creditor Governance
By William R. McCumber (College of Business, Louisiana Tech University) and Tomas Jandik (Sam M. Walton College of Business, …
Non-Debtor Substantive Consolidation: Do Recent Cases Signal a Judicial Preference for State Law Claims?
By Charles W. Azano (Mintz Levin). Jurisprudence varies on whether bankruptcy courts have the power to consolidate a bankruptcy …
Bankruptcy Law as a Balancing System – Lessons from a Comparative Analysis of the Interaction Between Labor and Bankruptcy Laws
By Omer Kimhi (Haifa University Faculty of Law) and Arno Doebert (Independent) The rehabilitation of distressed corporations often …
Loan to Bond Substitution: An Empirical Analysis on the Functioning of the Substitution Channel for Eurozone Firms
By Francesco Ruggiero (University of Naples Federico II) This paper contributes to the literature by enhancing the understanding …
Courts As Institutional Reformers: Bankruptcy and Public Law Litigation
Kathleen G. Noonan (University of Pennsylvania), Jonathan C. Lipson (Temple University—Beasley School of Law), and William H. …
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