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ISBN10: 0691116377, ISBN13: 9780691116372, [publisher: Princeton University Press] Softcover New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days.
[Southport, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2003]

Paperback / softback. New. Why has the nation's legal system evolved to allow both corporate and individual debtors greater control over their fate than imaginable elsewhere? Probing the political dynamics behind this question, this book provides an account of the remarkable journey American bankruptcy law has taken from its beginnings in 1800. ISBN 0691116377 9780691116372 [GB]

ISBN10: 0691116377, ISBN13: 9780691116372, [publisher: Princeton Univ Pr] Softcover 296 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.50 inches. In Stock.
[Exeter, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2003]

Princeton Univ Pr, Date: 2003. Paperback. New. 296 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.50 inches. 2003. Princeton Univ Pr ISBN 0691116377 9780691116372 [GB]

ISBN10: 0691116377, ISBN13: 9780691116372, [publisher: Princeton University Press] Softcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - 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 of English law, to the present day.Skeel shows that the confluence of three forces that emerged over many years--an organized creditor lobby, pro-debtor ideological currents, and an increasingly powerful bankruptcy bar--explains the distinctive contours of American bankruptcy law. Their interplay, he argues in clear, inviting prose, has seen efforts to legislate bankruptcy become a compelling battle royale between bankers and lawyers--one in which the bankers recently seem to have gained the upper hand. Skeel demonstrates, for example, that a fiercely divided bankruptcy commission and the 1994 Republican takeover of Congress have yielded the recent, ideologically charged battles over consumer ...
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ISBN10: 0691116377, ISBN13: 9780691116372, [publisher: Princeton University Press] Softcover 2003. Paperback. . . . . .
[Galway, GY, Ireland] [Publication Year: 2003]