Since 1997, the number of American families filing for federal bankruptcy annually has exceeded one million. By most measures, those who file are members of the middle class?a group that has long provided stability and vitality for the American economic system. This raises the troubling question: why, during the most remarkable period of prosperity in our history, are unprecedented numbers of Americans encountering such serious financial trouble? The authors of this important book analyze court records and demographic data on thousands of bankruptcy cases, as well as debtors’ own poignant accounts of the reasons for their bankruptcies. For many middle-class Americans, the findings show, financial stability is fragile?almost any setback can be disastrous. The erosion of job stability, divorce and family instability, the visible and invisible costs of medical care, the burden of home ownership, and the staggering weight of consumer debt financed with plastic combine to threaten the financial security of growing numbers of middle-class families. The authors view the bankruptcy process in the light of changing cultural and economic factors and consider what this may signify for the future of a large, secure, and dynamic middle class.

The Fragile Middle Class: Americans in Debt

Business & Money

Elizabeth Warren

Jay Lawrence Westbrook

Teresa A. Sullivan

Economics

Yale University Press

The Law of Debtors and Creditors: Text, Cases, and Problems

Rules & Procedures

Wolters Kluwer/Law & Business

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Comprehensive Commercial Law 2012 Statutory Supplement

Ronald J. Mann

Business

Aspen Publishers

This loose-leaf contains the same content and pagination as the casebook edition of The Law of Debtors and Creditors: Text, Cases, and Problems, Sixth Edition, by Warren/Westbrook, 9780735576261. These loose-leaf pages are 3 -hole punched, collated, and in shrink wrap, but the pages are not sold in a binder nor are they bound together in any way. For a limited time, students will receive a digital version of the casebook with their loose-leaf purchase. Note that the digital access will arrive physically with the loose-leaf book, via a unique promotion code. You will not receive the access until you receive the loose-leaf. The lively style, excellent problems, and balanced coverage of The Law of Debtors and Creditors: Text, Cases, and Problems have made this text one of the leading bankruptcy law casebooks. Honed through six editions, it continues to provide students and professors with an exemplary instructional tool. Among the attributes that make this casebook a favorite with teachers and students alike: <ul>
<li> more than 50 problem sets --featuring the realistic questions a lawyer considers in confronting the statutory provisions for a bankruptcy case </li> <li> explanatory text throughout makes bankruptcy law accessible to students and easier to teach </li> <li> organized functionally, as a bankruptcy case would unfold -- students find it logical and sensible </li> <li> a thematic "mega-problem" appears throughout the book , providing chapter-by-chapter review and integrating elements of all chapters at the end of the book </li> <li> consumer bankruptcy is separated from business bankruptcy for clarity, and the text begins with the more familiar consumer bankruptcy </li> </ul>
 This timely revision has been updated to reflect recent developments and case law and includes: <ul>
<li> coverage of cases resulting from the 2005 Amendments, including consumer bankruptcy, including Chapter 7; Chapter 13, the "hanging paragraph" and means test eligibility </li> <li> expanded business law coverage with individualized treatment of small business bankruptcies and their bigger, publicly traded Chapter 11 cousins, emphasizing the rapid changes in the world of reorganization and the first international cases under Chapter 15 </li> <li> as in past editions, there are problem sets for each subject area in the book, however the sixth edition will have variations of some of the problems available, allowing for more flexibility </li> </ul>
 Classroom-tested through five editions, revised to keep pace with the most recent developments in the world of bankruptcy, The Law of Debtors and Creditors: Text, Cases, and Problems, Sixth Edition, is an unbeatable method for teaching a practical, animated, and completely state-of-the-art course.

The Law of Debtors and Creditors: Text, Cases, and Problems, Sixth Edition (Loose-leaf version)

Ronald J. Mann, Elizabeth Warren, Jay Lawrence Westbrook

Comprehensive Commercial Law, 2013: Statutory Supplement

Foreign & International Law

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One of the leading casebooks in the field, The Law of Debtors and Creditors features 39 problem sets with realistic questions a lawyer considers in managing a bankruptcy case. It also challenges the students with the major policy and theoretical questions in the field. The text features a functional organization as a bankruptcy case would unfold. The focus is on teaching through the realistic problems, complete with ethical difficulties embedded into the fact patterns. The presentation is lively and colloquial. Explanatory text throughout makes bankruptcy law accessible to students and easier to teach. Because it divides the subject between consumer and business bankruptcy, professors can select the depth of coverage for each subject in designing a two-, three-, or four-credit class. The authors—Senator Elizabeth Warren, Congresswoman Katie Porter, and Professors Pottow (Michigan) and Westbrook (Texas)—are among the most prominent in the field. Uniquely comprehensive Teacher’s Manual—chock full of material on how to design class around the problem sets, citations to new cases and literature, and suggestions for steering class discussion. 
New to the Eighth Edition: The emergence of a whole new form of chapter 11 bankruptcy, the Small Business Reorganization Act in subchapter V, just as the Covid19 crisis exploded The impact of recent Supreme Court decisions, including Jevic, Merit Management, Midland Funding, and Wellness New cases and issues since the Seventh Edition Updated materials on § 363 sales Incorporation of discussion of ABI Commission on Consumer Bankruptcy Reform A number of interesting new problems 
Professors and students will benefit from: Separation of consumer bankruptcy from business bankruptcy—professors can select the depth of coverage for each subject Lively explanatory text—makes bankruptcy law accessible to students and easier to teach Engagement of current events and economic trends Discussion of many recent cases 39 problem sets—featuring the realistic questions a lawyerconsiders in applying the statutory provisions in a bankruptcycase Substantial discussion of the ethical questions that arise in bankruptcy practice, and including ethical issues in the problems students must solve Functional organization—as a bankruptcy case would unfold rather than using some artificial paradigm Chapters specifically devoted to bankruptcy theory (consumer and business), to international insolvencies, and to important ethics issuein the consumer and business contexts Problem sets designed to combine doctrinal, transactional, and theoretical issues

The Law of Debtors and Creditors: Text, Cases, and Problems [Connected eBook] (Aspen Casebook)

Katherine Porter

John Pottow

Ethics & Professional Responsibility

Wolters Kluwer

The Law of Debtors and Creditors: Text, Cases, and Problems (Aspen Casebook Series)

Comprehensive Commercial Law 2023 Statutory Supplement

Mann, Ronald J.

Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory U.S.

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