October 04, 2010
Bankrupt Children by Elizabeth Warren
Author: Elizabeth Warren (Harvard Law School) Abstract: The missing players in bankruptcy are the families whose economic well-being will be tied to that of the filing debtor. They remain in...
October 04, 2010
Financial Collapse and Class Status: Who Goes Bankrupt? by Elizabeth...
Author: Elizabeth Warren (Harvard Law School) Abstract: Every policy prescription, economic analysis, or news report about consumer bankruptcy rests on one or another unspoken image of the estimated 1.6 million...
October 04, 2010
The Growing Threat to Middle Class Families by Elizabeth Warren
Author: Elizabeth Warren (Harvard Law School) Abstract: This year more children will live through their parents’ bankruptcy than their parents’ divorce. The signs of economic distress for families with children...
October 04, 2010
Less Stigma or More Financial Distress: An Empirical Analysis of...
Authors: Elizabeth WarrenHarvard Law School Jay Lawrence WestbrookUniversity of Texas at Austin School of Law Teresa A. SullivanUniversity of Michigan at Ann Arbor Abstract: A central concern in domestic economic...
October 04, 2010
Chapter 11: Conventional Wisdom and Reality by Jay Lawrence Westbrook...
Authors: Jay Lawrence Westbrook (University of Texas at Austin School of Law) and Elizabeth Warren (Harvard Law School) Chapter 11 has greatly influenced bankruptcy reforms all over the world, but...
October 04, 2010
Did Bankruptcy Reform Fail? An Empirical Study of Consumer Debtors
Authors: Robert M. LawlessUniversity of Illinois College of Law Angela K. LittwinUniversity of Texas School of Law Katherine M. PorterUniversity of Iowa – College of Law; Harvard Law School John...
October 04, 2010
The Success of Chapter 11: A Challenge to the Critics...
Authors: Elizabeth Warren (Harvard Law School) and Jay Lawrence Westbrook (University of Texas at Austin School of Law) Abstract: Although Chapter 11 has served as a model for bankruptcy reform...
September 20, 2010
Durbin, Debit, and Financial Reform
The U.S. Congress is in the final stretches of passing financial reform legislation which has been under intense discussion and debate since the implosion of the financial system in September...
September 19, 2010
Is Borrowing Bad? The Critical Debate We Aren’t Having
There’s a critical debate this country must have but isn’t. Is borrowing money a bad thing that consumers and small businesses should be discouraged from doing in part by restraining...