By David Skeel (University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School) This summer marked the tenth anniversary of the Puerto Rico …
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New York District Court Affirms Narrow Scope of “Public Policy Exception” in Chapter 15 Cases
By Corinne Ball, Dan T. Moss, David S. Torborg, and Isel M. Perez (Jones Day) Chapter 15 of the Bankruptcy Code reached its …
Understanding the Statutory Cap on Landlord Claims for Rejected Leases in Bankruptcy
By Brandon E. Barker, Geoffrey H. Smith, Megan Preusker & Dormie Ko (Mintz) This article examines how the US Bankruptcy …
Chapter 11 Plan that Abridged Non-Debtor Lessee’s Rights to Remain in Possession After Rejection Unconfirmable as Having Been Proposed in Bad Faith
By Trisha L. Mowbray & Ryan Sims (Jones Day) The Bankruptcy Code includes special protections for real property lessees …
New Jersey bankruptcy court upholds debtor-chosen venue under Asset Based Approach
By Megan Wasson & Rebecca Polinsky (HSF Kramer LLP) The bankruptcy venue statute, 28 U.S.C. Section 1408, allows a debtor …
The Erie Doctrine, Code Common Law, and Choice-of-Law Rules in Bankruptcy
By Ralph Brubaker (University of Illinois College of Law) State law pervades bankruptcy litigation, as all parties’ relative …
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Houston, We Have (Another) Problem
By Jeffrey Pawlitz (Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP) In September 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of …
Judging Business Judgment: The Federal Common Law of Bankruptcy Transactions in Chapter 11
By Dolan Bortner (Stanford Law School) When a federal judge encounters a statutory gap too wide to fill through ordinary …
Outnumbered, Not Outplayed: Minority Lenders Successfully Challenge Exclusive Backstop Agreement on Equal Treatment Grounds in ConvergeOne
By Debora Hoehne, Robert J. Lemons, Artem Skorostensky, and Katherine Lynn (Goodwin Procter) The District Court for the …
Recognition of Nonconsensual Third-Party Releases in Ch. 15 After Purdue
By George W. Shuster, Jr. (WilmerHale) and Benjamin W. Loveland (WilmerHale) The Supreme Court’s decision in Harrington v. …
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A Mill of Miller: Examining the Supreme Court’s Recent Bankruptcy Jurisprudence
Editor's Note: This is the Harvard Law School Bankruptcy Roundtable’s last scheduled post for the summer of 2025. The BRT intends …
Exit Consents in a Liability Management World
By Dennis Jenkins (Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP) As liability management exercises (LMEs) and creditor-on-creditor …
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Independent Directors Properly Exculpated as Debtors’ Disinterested Fiduciaries Under Chapter 11 Plan, Southern District of Texas Bankruptcy Court Rules
By Brian S. Hermann, Jacob A. Adlerstein, Claudia R. Tobler and Lindsay A. Wasserman (Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & …
The World of Interlocutory Bankruptcy Appeals
By Bankruptcy Judge Scott C. Clarkson (Central District of California), Taylor Brown-Duncan, (Law Clerk), Sophie Jeltema (Chapman …
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Inconvenient Bankruptcy Appeals
By Michael Cook (Schulte Roth & Zabel) Too many district courts and bankruptcy appellate panels (BAPs) have been refusing …
BRT Book Corner: Unjust Debts; The Financial Restructuring Tool Set
Editor's Note: The Harvard Law School Bankruptcy Roundtable is excited to bring readers the first entry in a new semi-annual …
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Potential Resurrection of Creditor Derivative Suits on Behalf of Debtor LLCs
By Kate Scherling (Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP) Until recently, the judges of the Delaware bankruptcy court …
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New York Bankruptcy Court Raises the Cost of Keeping Funded Debt: Debtor Needs to Pay Default Interest Rate in Reinstatement of Accelerated Debt
By Adam C. Rogoff, Nancy M. Bello, and Gabriel Eisenberger (Kramer Levin LLP) The interplay between reinstatement of funded …
Can AI Help Explain Bankruptcy Law?
By Deepak Subburam (Copula AI) I am a machine-learning engineer who maintains a database of bankruptcy case law, at the …
[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 …