The Law of Debtors and Creditors: Text, Cases, and Problems, Ninth Edition

Buy a new version of this textbook and receive access to the Connected eBook on Casebook Connect, including academic lifetime access to the online ebook with highlight, annotation, and search capabilities. Access also includes an outline tool and other helpful resources. Connected eBooks provide what you need most to be successful in your law school classes. Always the most teachable bankruptcy casebook, now the most current as well, The Law of Debtors and Creditors: Text, Cases, and Problems, Ninth Edition (Elizabeth Warren, Jay Lawrence Westbrook, John A.E. Pottow, Katherine Porter, Pamela Foohey, Angela K. Littwin), is the perfect vehicle for a practical, lively, and up-to-date course on consumer bankruptcy and/or corporate reorganization, including cross-border insolvency. A leading casebook in the field, The Law of Debtors and Creditors features 39 problem sets with realistic questions bankruptcy lawyers encounter in practice. The text’s organization is practical, with assignments following the order in which consumer and business bankruptcy cases unfold. It teaches through the problems, complete with ethical difficulties and transactional strategy embedded in the fact patterns. It also challenges students with major policy and theoretical questions. The presentation is lively and colloquial. Explanatory text throughout makes bankruptcy law accessible to students and straightforward to teach. The book’s division between consumer and business bankruptcy allows professors to select the depth of coverage for each subject in designing two-, three-, or four-credit classes. A singularly comprehensive Teacher’s Manual includes a wealth of material on designing the class around the problem sets, citations to new cases and literature, and extensive suggestions for steering class discussion. New to the Ninth Edition: Prominent author team now includes the fresh perspective and expertise of two new authors: Pamela Foohey (University of Minnesota Law School) and Angela Littwin (University of Texas School of Law) A refresh of the consumer materials and targeted updates to the business materials Streamlining of nearly every assignment to reduce the reading for students A new standalone assignment on subchapter V of chapter 11 A reconceptualized assignment about future claimants and third-party releases to focus more on mass tort bankruptcies New cases covering consumer, business, and cross-border insolvency issues, including Fulton, Purdue, and Serta A few new and updated problems Professors and students will benefit from: Separation of consumer bankruptcy and business bankruptcy—professors can select the depth of coverage for each subject Functional organization—as a consumer and business bankruptcy case would unfold Organization that presents consumer materials first so that students can master key bankruptcy concepts in simpler situations before encountering them in complex business contexts Lively explanatory text—makes bankruptcy law accessible to students, straightforward to teach, and fun for everyone Engagement with current events and economic trends Incorporation of fresh data about bankruptcy trends and filers 39 problem sets that combine doctrinal, transactional, and theoretical issues and feature realistic questions lawyers consider in bankruptcy practice Substantial discussion of the ethical questions that arise in bankruptcy practice, including ethical issues in the problem sets Chapters specifically devoted to bankruptcy theory (consumer and business), to cross-border insolvencies, and to important ethics issues in consumer and business bankruptcy An excellent Teacher’s Manual that is particularly helpful to newer professors, and for current adopters, specifies exactly what has changed from the prior edition