Courses

    This course is a general introduction to bankruptcy law. It covers both individual and business bankruptcies. Bankruptcy is a central component of commercial and business law and merges litigation and transactional practice. The course explores the American credit economy through the federal Bankruptcy Code. The course is taught from a problem-set based textbook. The problems are designed to examine the elements of the statutes, the business and transactional implications of the formal laws, the ethical issues involved for attorneys, and the policy issues that inhere in the bankruptcy system. The problem approach is based on situations that attorneys, clients, legislators, and judges encounter and on the broader social implications of these issues.