Bankruptcy Law

The casebook for our course in bankruptcy law will be Elizabeth Warren & Jay Lawrence Westbrook, The Law of Debtors and Creditors: Text, Cases, and Problems (6th ed. 2009). 

You will also need a statute book.  The bookstore has ordered the 2011 edition of Ronald L. Mann et al, ed., Comprehensive Commercial Law: Statutory Supplement (Aspen 2011), which is the statute book I will use in class.  (That’s also the statute book we used in Secured Transactions last fall, so there should be used copies available.)  If you have a statute book from another publisher or from last year, or both, that will probably suffice for most purposes.  Other statute books are available containing the Bankruptcy Code and UCC Article 9; any of those from the past year or two should suffice.  If you have a question about whether a particular statute book will work, I’ll be happy to discuss that with you.  In particular, you should note that some of the dollar amounts in the Bankruptcy Code are adjusted periodically for inflation, but that’s easy to adjust for once you recognize the need.  There are also some recent technical amendments to the Bankruptcy Code and UCC Article 9 that the casebook citations have not caught up with, but that should be only an occasional, minor inconvenience.

Our first class meeting will be on Monday, January 9, at noon.  For that class, please read and be prepared to discuss pages xxiii-xxvi, xxxi,  and 3-31 in the casebook, including problems 1.1, 1.2, 1.4, and 1.6 on pages 28-31.  Please note that the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act is Subchapter V (the 800s) of the Consumer Credit Protection Act, and appears in the 2011 Mann statute book at 1091 et seq.

I look forward to seeing you on January 9.