Rescuing Business: The Making of Corporate Bankruptcy Law in England and the United States.

Social Forces ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 78 (2) ◽  
pp. 812 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Delaney ◽  
Bruce G. Carruthers ◽  
Terence Halliday
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Bankruptcy Law ◽  
Corporate Bankruptcy

scholarly journals The role of path dependence in the development of US bankruptcy law, 1880–1938

2007 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-225 ◽  
Author(s):  
BRADLEY A. HANSEN ◽  
MARY ESCHELBACH HANSEN
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Interest Groups ◽  
Path Dependence ◽  
The United States ◽  
Bankruptcy Law ◽  
Dependent Process ◽  
Path Dependent ◽  
Path Dependent Process ◽  
Political Compromises

Abstract:We illustrate mechanisms that can give rise to path dependence in legislation. Specifically, we show how debtor-friendly bankruptcy law arose in the United States as a result of a path dependent process. The 1898 Bankruptcy Act was not regarded as debtor-friendly at the time of its enactment, but the enactment of the law gave rise to changes in interest groups, changes in beliefs about the purpose of bankruptcy law, and changes in the Democratic Party's position on bankruptcy that set the United States on a path to debtor-friendly bankruptcy law. An analysis of the path dependence of bankruptcy law produces an interpretation that is more consistent with the evidence than the conventional interpretation that debtor-friendliness in bankruptcy law began with political compromises to obtain the 1898 Bankruptcy Act.

Some Clinical and Psychobiographical Aspects of Personal Bankruptcy: A Psychoanalytic Inquest

1983 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-28
Author(s):  
Lawrence M. Ginsburg ◽  
Sybil A. Ginsburg
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Bankruptcy Law ◽  
Personal Bankruptcy ◽  
Transference And Countertransference

The historical background of bankruptcy law in the United States is examined. The paucity of literature about the psychology of bankrupts is noted. Published studies are cited which trace the stages of ego disintegration under state-imposed constraints. The reported analysis of a bankruptcy lawyer is excerpted to illustrate the link with death which his work unconsciously represented for him. Brief clinical examples of the psychology of two bankrupts are included, with discussion about their psychodynamics. Pronouncements of two prominent patients are quoted and reviewed, along with biographical formulations about post-insolvency transference and countertransference considerations involving their respective analysts.

scholarly journals The United States Bankruptcy Law of 1898

1900 ◽  
Vol 9 (7) ◽  
pp. 287
Author(s):  
Henry G. Newton
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Bankruptcy Law

I. Recent Developments in UK Extradition Law

2007 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 199-208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colin Warbrick ◽  
Colin Warbrick
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Corporate Bankruptcy ◽  
Legal Regime ◽  
Us History ◽  
Criminal Jurisdiction ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Economic Crimes

In July 2006, three bankers, all UK nationals, were extradited to the United States on charges of conspiracy to defraud their one-time employers, a British bank, a subsidiary of Natwest. The conduct took place under the shadow of the ‘Enron’ affair. The defendants were said to have conspired with senior officials of Enron. Enron was the subject of the largest corporate bankruptcy in US history. In comparison the sums involved in the Enron collapse, those at stake in what the papers called the ‘Natwest Three’ case were small, but the involvement of persons implicated in the Enron affair made the defendants of interest to US prosecutors. The cases enjoyed an unusual public profile, partly because the extraditions took place under the unique legal regime which governs US-UK extradition,1 partly because this case was simply one of several cases in which persons charged with what one might loosely call economic crimes were sought by US prosecutors2 and partly because the defendants argued that their offences (which they denied) were allegations of what were ‘really’ English crimes which should have been proceeded with here. Although the extradition aspects have loomed largest, this last matter, possible conflicts of criminal jurisdiction, is the most interesting.

The United States Bankruptcy Law of 1898 with Amendments of 1903

1903 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 338
Author(s):  
S. W. E. ◽  
H. Noyes Greene
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Bankruptcy Law
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