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Reinventing bankruptcy law : a history of the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act /

"Reinventing Bankruptcy Law explodes conventional wisdom about the history of the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act and in its place offers the first historical account of Canada's premier corporate restructuring statute. The book adopts a novel research approach that combines lega...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Torrie, Virginia (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2020.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 1. Historical institutionalism and the recursivity of law
  • 2. Corporate restructuring as a bondholder remedy
  • 3. Enshrining a bondholder remedy in federal legislation
  • 4. Constitutional references and changing conceptions of federalism, 1934-1937
  • 5. Efforts to repeal the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act, 1938-1953
  • 6. New lenders, new forms of lending, and stalled bankruptcy reforms, 1970s-1980s
  • 7. Purposive interpretation and pro-active judging, 1980s-1990s
  • 8. Judicial sanction of tactical devices
  • 9. Formalizing a modern debtor-in-possession restructuring narrative
  • 10. Conclusion
  • Appendices.