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Debt's Dominion : A History of Bankruptcy Law in America
Bankruptcy in America, in stark contrast to its status in most other countries, typically signifies not a debtor's last gasp but an opportunity to catch one's breath and recoup. Why has the nation's legal system evolved to allow both corporate and individual debtors greater control ov...
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Princeton University Press,
2014.
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| 505 | 0 | |a Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; PART ONE: THE BIRTH OF U.S. INSOLVENCY LAW; CHAPTER ONE: The Path to Permanence in 1898; CHAPTER TWO: Railroad Receivership and the Elite Reorganization Bar; PART TWO: THE GREAT DEPRESSION AND NEW DEAL; CHAPTER THREE: Escaping the New Deal: The Bankruptcy Bar in the 1930's; CHAPTER FOUR: William Douglas and the Rise of the Securities and Exchange Commission; PART THREE: THE REVITALIZATION OF BANKRUPTCY; CHAPTER FIVE: Raising the Bar with the 1978 Bankruptcy Code | |
| 505 | 0 | |a CHAPTER SIX: Repudiating the New Deal with Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code PART FOUR: THE VIEW FROM THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY; CHAPTER SEVEN: Credit Cards and the Return of Ideology in Consumer Bankruptcy; CHAPTER EIGHT: Bankruptcy as a Business Address: The Growth of Chapter 11 in Practice and Theory; EPILOGUE: Globalization and U.S. Bankruptcy Law; NOTES; INDEX | |
| 520 | |a Bankruptcy in America, in stark contrast to its status in most other countries, typically signifies not a debtor's last gasp but an opportunity to catch one's breath and recoup. Why has the nation's legal system evolved to allow both corporate and individual debtors greater control over their fate than imaginable elsewhere? Masterfully probing the political dynamics behind this question, David Skeel here provides the first complete account of the remarkable journey American bankruptcy law has taken from its beginnings in 1800, when Congress lifted the country's first bankruptcy code right out. | ||
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