Monday, October 8, 2007

International Bankruptcy Symposium

The latest issue of the Brooklyn Journal of International Law (Vol. 32, no. 3, 2007) contains an interesting symposium on international bankruptcy. The contributions are available on the BJIL's website. Here are the contents:
  • Symposium: Bankruptcy in the Global Village: The Second Decade
    • Neil B. Cohen, Michael A. Gerber, & Edward J. Janger, Introduction
    • Christoph G. Paulus, Global Insolvency Law and the Role of Multinational Institutions
    • Ian F. Fletcher, Maintaining the Momentum: The Continuing Quest for Global Standards and Principles to Govern Cross Border Insolvency
    • John A. E. Pottow, The Myth (and Realities) of Forum Shopping in Transnational Insolvency
    • Edward J. Janger, Universal Proceduralism
    • Susan Block-Lieb & Terence C. Halliday, Incrementalisms in Global Lawmaking
    • Steven L. Harris, Choosing the Law Governing Security Interests in International Bankruptcies
    • Nick Segal, The Effect of Reorganization Proceedings on Security Interests: The Position Under English and U.S. Law
    • Robert K. Rasmussen, Where are all the Transnational Bankruptcies? The Puzzling Case for Universalism
    • Gabriel Moss, Group Insolvency - Choice of Forum and Law: The European Experience Under the Influence of English Pragmatism
    • Jay Lawrence Westbrook, Locating the Eye of the Financial Storm
    • Jacob Ziegel, Canada-United States Cross-Border Insolvency Relations and the UNCITRAL Model Law
    • Terence C. Halliday, Legitimacy, Technology, and Leverage: The Building Blocks of Insolvency Architecture in the Decade Past and the Decade Ahead