Research Catalog

Title

Current developments in international and comparative corporate insolvency law / edited by Jacob S. Ziegel with the assistance of Susan I. Cantlie.

Publication

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.

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Additional Authors

• Cantlie, Susan I.
• Ziegel, Jacob S.

Description

lvii, 783 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Subject

• Bankruptcy
• Corporate reorganizations

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• 1. An Overview of Recent Developments and Future Prospects in the United Kingdom / Nick Segal -- 2. Philosophies of Business Bankruptcy Law: An International Overview / Axel Flessner -- 3. An Overview of Recent Developments and Future Prospects in the United States / Lawrence P. King -- 4. An Overview of Recent Developments and Future Prospects in Australia (With Some Reference to New Zealand and Asia) / Ron Harmer -- 5. Administration: Part II of the Insolvency Act / Dan Prentice, Fidelis Oditah and Nick Segal -- 6. A Systems Approach to Comparing US and Canadian Reorganization of Financially Distressed Companies / Lynn M. LoPucki and George G. Triantis -- 7. Some Comments on the Challenges of Commercial Reorganization in Insolvency: Why Chapter 11? / Richard F. Broude -- 8. The Challenges of Commercial, Reorganization in Insolvency: Empirical Evidence From England / Harry Rajak -- 9. Should We Abolish Chapter 11? The Evidence From Japan / Theodore Eisenberg and Shoichi Tagashira.
• 10. Methodological Issues in Cross-Country Comparisons of Commercial Bankruptcy Law: Comment on Papers by Eisenberg-Tagashira and Rajak / Stuart C. Gilson -- 11. Executory Contracts and Proposals Under the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act (Canada): A Comparative Analysis With the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act (Canada) / Ellen L. Hayes -- 12. Voidable Transactions in Bankruptcy: British Law Perspectives / Ian F. Fletcher -- 13. The American Bankruptcy Preference Law: Perceptions of the Past, the Transition to the Present, and Ideas for the Future / Morris G. Shanker -- 14. Voidable Transactions in Bankruptcy: The Canadian Perspective / Richard H. McLaren -- 15. Canadian Bankruptcy Law: A Secured Creditor's Heaven / R. C. C. Cuming -- 16. The Position of Creditors in the Distribution of Insolvent Estates: Consensual Secured Creditors in Japan / Yukiko Hasebe -- 17. Preferred Priority in Bankruptcy / Susan J. Cantlie.
• 18. The Privately Appointed Receiver and the Enforcement of Security Interests: Anomaly or Superior Solution? / Jacob S. Ziegel -- 19. The Canadian Private Receivership / F. H. Buckley -- 20. Personal Liability of Directors and Officers of Insolvent Companies: A Jurisdictional Perspective (England) / L. S. Sealy -- 21. Insolvent Trading Down Under / Abe Herzberg -- 22. The Responsibility of Directors and Shareholders for a Company's Debts Under New Zealand Law / John H. Farrar -- 23. Must Boards Go Overboard? An Economic Analysis of the Effects of Burgeoning Statutory Liability on the Role of Directors in Corporate Governance / Ronald J. Daniels -- 24. Issues in Concurrent Insolvency Jurisdiction: English Perspectives / Christopher K. Grierson -- 25. The Role of the Examiner as Facilitator and Harmonizer in the Maxwell Communication Corporation International Insolvency / Evan D. Flaschen and Ronald J. Silverman.
• 26. Issues in Concurrent Insolvency Jurisdiction: Comments on the Papers by Grierson and Flaschen-Silverman / Koji Takeuchi -- 27. Conflict of Laws Issues in International Insolvencies / Jay Lawrence Westbrook and Donald T. Trautman -- 28. Comment on the Trautman-Westbrook Paper / Yasuhei Taniguchi -- 29. Some Observations on Fairness, Public Policy, and Reciprocity in Cross-Border Insolvencies / Douglass G. Boshkoff -- 30. The Model International Insolvency Co-operation Act: A Twenty-First Century Proposal for International Insolvency Co-operation / Timothy E. Powers -- 31. The Nordic Bankruptcy Convention / Michael Bogdan -- 32. Harmonization of Jurisdictional and Recognitional Rules: The Istanbul Convention and the Draft EEC Convention / Ian F. Fletcher -- 33. Some Comments on Harmonization of Jurisdictional and Recognitional Rules / Richard F. Broude -- 34. Multinational Bank Insolvencies: The United States and BCCI / Hal S. Scott.

ISBN

0198258968

LCCN

^^^94003523^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library