Law of Debtors and Creditors: Text, Cases, and Problems - Elizabeth Warren - Hardcover

Summary: The authors build on the recognized strengths of their exemplary teaching book: - more than 50 problem sets feature the realistic questions a lawyer considers in confronting the statutory provisions for a bankruptcy case - explanatory text throughout makes bankruptcy law accessible to students and easier to teach - logical and sensible functional organization parallels the way a bankruptcy case would unfold - a thema...tic "mega-problem" appears throughout the book - separate treatment of consumer bankruptcy and business bankruptcy enhances clarity - an excellent Teacher's Manual Be sure to notice these significant changes for the Fifth Edition: - the entire book is revised to take account of the 2005 Amendments to the Federal Bankruptcy Act - balanced approach to the changes in the Bankruptcy Code - new problems corresponding to the new areas of the Code - a new transnational bankruptcy section built around the revised Chapter 15 of the Code - major new Supreme Court cases - substantial new empirical research - new ethical threads running through the problems [read more]