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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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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton University Press,
2014.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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
- 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