The philosopher Harry Frankfurt famously published his book, On Bullshit, where he distinguished … [Read more...]
Consumer Bankruptcy Fee Study
I have just finished reading Lois Lupica’s paper on her impressive consumer bankruptcy fee … [Read more...]
Bankruptcy Filings Still Falling
On a year-over-year basis, the bankruptcy filing rate has been dropping around 12-16%, and last … [Read more...]
What’s On at a Courthouse Near You
In addition to a post last week broadly raising visitors' physicial interaction with courts, … [Read more...]
Bankruptcy Filings Are Down — Everywhere
With half the year over, there is half of the year still to go. For our few readers who might … [Read more...]
Chapter 13 Disparities: This Time with a Map
A few weeks ago, I put up a post describing the states with the highest and lowest per capita … [Read more...]
Bankruptcy Court Calls
In connection with some ongoing research, I have noticed that U.S. bankruptcy courts have different … [Read more...]
Where People File Chapter 13
Between states, there is a big disparity in the rate at which people file bankruptcy. Over the past … [Read more...]
Downward Bankruptcy Filing Trend Continues
Bankruptcy filings for March continued to show a year-over-year decline. According to the latest … [Read more...]
Tax Rebates Lead to Bankruptcy Filings
Jialan Wang has a blog post up summarizing her and her co-authors very interesting NBER paper … [Read more...]
No Surprise: Bankruptcy Filings Jump in February
Bankruptcy filings rose in February, but the spike in filings keeps with historical trends. … [Read more...]
Evaluating Mandatory Financial Education in Bankruptcy
In 2005, Congress amended bankruptcy law to require individual debtors with primarily consumer debts … [Read more...]
Littwin on Bankruptcy Without a Lawyer
A few weeks ago, Katie Porter noted the release of the new book, Broke: How Debt Bankrupts the … [Read more...]
Fixing the "Fixed" Forms
Two weeks ago, I blogged about the Forms Modernization Project's effort to create new forms … [Read more...]
Consumer Friendly Forms for Bankruptcy
In many respects, bankruptcy is a one-size-fits-all legal process. Yes, there are ample differences … [Read more...]
How to Address Apparent Racial Disparity in the Consumer Bankruptcy System
The article discussed in the N.Y. Times story today is heavily empirical. It is also deliberately … [Read more...]
Race and Chapter 13
As Adam noted in his kind post, the New York Times today featured our study, "Race, Attorney … [Read more...]
Race and Chapter 13
As Adam noted in his kind post, the New York Times today featured our study, "Race, Attorney … [Read more...]
Foreclosure Timelines and Mortgage Delinquency: More Evidence from Bankruptcy
At the end of a lively session yesterday at Duke Law School featuring Professor Stephen Ware of … [Read more...]
Foreclosure Timelines and Mortgage Delinquency: More Evidence from Bankruptcy
At the end of a lively session yesterday at Duke Law School featuring Professor Stephen Ware of … [Read more...]
What is the Relationship Between Credit Cards and Mortgage Delinquency?
Previously I mentioned this new paper on homeowners in bankruptcy in the American Bankruptcy Law … [Read more...]
Bankruptcy Filings Down 11.7% in 2011
The year-end bankruptcy statistics from Epiq Systems have arrived. There were just over 1,379,000 … [Read more...]
In or Out of Mortgage Trouble? A Study of Bankrupt Homeowners
This is a newly published paper in the American Bankruptcy Law Journal that I was lucky to work … [Read more...]
In or Out of Mortgage Trouble? A Study of Bankrupt Homeowners
This is a newly published paper in the American Bankruptcy Law Journal that I was lucky to work … [Read more...]
In or Out of Mortgage Trouble? A Study of Bankrupt Homeowners
This is a newly published paper in the American Bankruptcy Law Journal that I was lucky to work … [Read more...]
The Decline in Bankruptcy Filings by Chapter
Bankruptcy filings have been on the decline, but has this decline been spread differently between … [Read more...]