In May 1997, the New York Knickerbockers basketball team was poised to reach the finals of
its division in the National Baske ball Association (NBA). The Knicks led the rival Miami Heat …

In 1996 a record one million-plus bankruptcy cases were filed in the United States. In this
important book, an eminent legal authority provides an accessible introduction to and …

Today, statutes make up the bulk of the relevant law heard in federal courts and arguably
represent the most important source of American law. The proper means of judicial …

What law governs American prisons and jails, and what does it matter? This Article offers
new answers to both questions. To many scholars and advocates," prison law" means the …

In recent years, bankruptcy courts have given conflicting answers to the question: May a
prepetition debtor 3 contractually waive bankruptcy protections? 4 More recently, scholars …

The reorganization provisions of Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code enable a business
debtor to achieve a complex and comprehensive financial restructuring through the …

1. Asset leasing involves the" transfer of the right to possession and use of goods for a term
in return for consideration." UCC § 2A-103 (1)(j)(1994). 2. Project finance refers to a method …

To understand the logic of corporate reorganization, one should start not with the Bankruptcy
Code, nor with Supreme Court precedents, but with the lawyers, judges, and financiers for …

How do we learn from-and about-our mistakes? When a business succeeds, it will be in a
position to tell the world how and why it built a better mousetrap. Success has a thousand …

Professor Bussel presents new empirical evidence bearing on the efficacy of textualism as a
method of statutory interpretation. Bankruptcy cases subsequently overruled by statute are …