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Bankruptcy Law: Secondary Sources

The law of bankruptcy in the United States is governed primarily by federal law. Specialized federal bankruptcy courts hear bankruptcy cases and related proceedings.

SECONDARY SOURCES ONLINE

(Westlaw, Lexis, and HeinOnline databases are available to users with Law School usernames and passwords only):

Westlaw:  

   -Practice Area: Bankruptcy

   -Bankruptcy Resources: includes Practice Insights for Bankruptcy, Bankruptcy DataSource, primary sources, sample agreements, expert materials, and news

   -Bankruptcy & Restructuring (Practical Law): includes Practice Notes, Checklists, Toolkits, and Standard Clauses and Documents for bankruptcy practice.

Lexis+

   -Practice Area > Bankruptcy Law

   -Topics > Bankruptcy Law > Collier on Bankruptcy, Collier Bankruptcy & Consumer Bankruptcy Practice Guides  

HeinOnline:
    -History of Bankruptcy: Taxation & Economic Reform in America (Part III).

TREATISES & STUDY GUIDES AT ELISABETH HAUB LAW LIBRARY

Collier on Bankruptcy, Alan N. Resnick & Henry J. Sommers, eds. (16th ed. 2009) (KF 1524 .C615) (multi-vol. looseleaf).

Making Failure Feasible: How Bankruptcy Reform Can End "Too Big to Fail" (Kenneth E. Scott et al., eds. 2015) (e-book)

Bankruptcy, Noah Berlatsky (2015) (ebook).

CORPORATE BANKRUPTCY

Chapter 11: Reorganizing American Businesses: Essentials, Elizabeth Warren (Wolters Kluwer 2008) (KF1544 .W37)

The Law of Failure: A Tour Through the Wilds of American Business Insolvency Law, Stephen J. Lubben (Cambridge Univ. Press 2018) (KF1539 .L93).

CONSUMER BANKRUPTCY GUIDES