The Bankruptcy Code accords much more favorable treatment to lessors than to secured lenders, but legal scholars have yet to identify a normative justification for the disparate treatment of the two transaction types. Law-and-economics scholars have written off the lease/loan distinction as...

Consumer advocates won a victory with the passage of the Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure Act of 2009. (Credit Card Act). The Credit Card Act bans certain pricing practices that were confusing to credit card users. Ironically, the seeds of this legislative victory may...

Since the price peak in 2006, home values have fallen more than 30%, leaving millions of Americans with negative equity in their homes. Until the Supreme Court's 1993 decision in Nobelman v. American Savings Bank, the bankruptcy system would have provided many such homeowners with a remedy. They...

In dit artikel worden de gevolgen van faillietverklaring voor de onder het stelsel van gemeenschap gehuwde echtgenoot van de gefailleerde en diens schuldeisers geanalyseerd.In this article we analyse the consequences of bankruptcy for the spouse of the spouse declared bankrupt and his creditors

Dit artikel is een noot onder het arrest van het Hof van Beroep van Gent van 7 mei 1996, met betrekking tot de toepassing van de separatistenpositie van de onbetaalde verkoper van bedrijfsuitrusting bij faillissement.This paper is an annotation to Court of Appeal Ghent 7 May 1996, regarding the...

The Bankruptcy Code provides tools that are well-suited to addressing and resolving the financial problems faced by the "Big Three" automakers and other "too big to fail" companies ("TBTF Companies"). But Chapter 11 as it presently exists would inevitably impose great harm on vendors and other...