Debt's dominion : a history of bankruptcy law in America / David A. Skeel, Jr.

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton Univ Pr, 2001.

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Bankruptcy -- United States.

Bankruptcy -- United States -- History.

Part one. The Birth of US insolvency law: 1. The Path to permanence in 1898

2. Railroad receivership and the elite reorganization bar

Part two. The Great Depression and New Deal: 3. Escaping New Deal: The bankruptcy bar in the 1930s

4. William Douglas and the rise of the Securities and Exchange Commission

Part three. The Revitalization of bankruptcy: 5. Raising the bar with the 1978 Bankruptcy Code

6. Repudiating the New Deal with Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code

Part four. The View from the twenty-first century: 7. Credit cards and the return of ideology in consumer bankruptcy

8. Bankruptcy as a business address: the growth of Chapter 11 in practice and theory

Epilogue: Globalization and US bankruptcy law.

Includes index.

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xi, 281 p.