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Examples & Explanations for Bankruptcy and Debtor/Creditor, Eighth Edition

Authors
  • Brian A. Blum
  • Samir D. Parikh
Series / Examples & Explanations Series
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Description

Through its previous seven editions, Examples & Explanations: Bankruptcy and Debtor/Creditor has been popular with students and practitioners for its extraordinarily lucid explanations of complex concepts. In this eighth edition, the coauthors, Brian Blum and Samir Parikh, combine their expertise to enhance the book’s treatment of all salient areas of bankruptcy and debtor-creditor law. Although there are many changes in the eighth edition, it maintains the format and approach of previous editions. The textual discussion of the principles, goals, policies, and legal rules of Bankruptcy and Debtor-Creditor law is clear and accessible. The Examples & Explanations pedagogy gives the reader practice interpreting the Bankruptcy Code and applying the rules and principles to factual situations. 

This book will help law students master fundamental federal bankruptcy and state debtor-creditor concepts and rules, which will help them succeed in upper-level bankruptcy/debtor-creditor courses; and it will also give them a leg up when they encounter bankruptcy in other areas, such as family law, taxation, real estate, business organizations, secured transactions, torts, and others. 

New to the 8th Edition:  

  • New problems addressing current bankruptcy issues, including mass tort bankruptcies like Purdue Pharma and Boy Scouts of America.   
  • New cases throughout and discussion of recent developments in the law, including unique insights into 363 assets sales, fraudulent transfer law, 524(g), small business bankruptcy under Subchapter V, and dischargeability of student loan debt.    
  • New overview sections in each chapter, designed to provide a summary of the Bankruptcy Code sections covered. 
  • Rewriting of text to enhance clarity, add hypotheticals, and integrate the discussion of new topics. 

Professors and students will benefit from: 

  • Examples & Explanations are designed to highlight fundamental issues covered in the textual part of the chapter and to allow students to self-test on topics discussed in the text. The Examples set out a factual scenarios which are resolved in the Explanation, with reference back to the textual material. 
  • Topics have been arranged within each chapter to allow students to see the interactions between different Code sections, and to move from basic to more complex topics. 
  • Each chapter contains cross references to material in other chapters to enable students to link themes in various chapters and to see how the topics fit together to form a comprehensive system. 
  • The text is clearly written to be accessible to students, and covers rules and concepts in the depth and breadth that is likely to be required of students in the bankruptcy/debtor-creditor course. 
  • One-of-a-kind flowcharts and diagrams aid in understanding by the visual representation of concepts, processes, and relationships. 
  • The extensive glossary at the end of the book gives students a ready explanation of the meaning of the many terms of art that they may encounter in this area, both in the book and in other materials. 
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About the authors
Brian Blum
Lewis Clark

Professor Blum practiced as an attorney in Johannesburg, South Africa, from 1972 to 1975 and as an advocate in the following two years. Blum taught part-time at the School of Law of the University of Witwatersrand while in practice as an advocate. He joined the law school faculty in 1978. Blum has published law review articles on bankruptcy law, contracts, and commercial law as well as books on bankruptcy and debtor-creditor law and contracts.

Samir D. Parikh
Professor

Professor Samir D. Parikh's research and writing focus on a variety of business law and bankruptcy issues, including mass tort restructurings, fraudulent transfer law, forum shopping, and municipal distress.

Professor Parikh is a nationally recognized expert on mass tort restructurings and business reorganizations. Cornell Law Review recently selected him as a co-organizer for its 2024 symposium, "Mass Torts Inferno: New Battle Lines in the Resolution Debate." He has also served as a co-organizer for symposia hosted by the University of Pennsylvania Law Review and Fordham Law Review.

His scholarship has been published in leading law reviews, including the Yale Law Journal Forum, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Northwestern University Law Review, Cornell Law Review, Duke Law Journal, and Fordham Law Review.

In 2022, Professor Parikh was invited to join both the American Law Institute and the American College of Bankruptcy. He is one of fewer than 15 individuals to be admitted to both organizations.

On September 19, 2023, Professor Parikh testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the hearing topic, "Evading Accountability: Corporate Manipulation of Chapter 11 Bankruptcy." Further, On February 8, 2022, Professor Parikh was invited to testify before the Senate Subcommittee on Federal Courts, Oversight, Agency Action, and Federal Rights. He provided a Written Congressional Statement on the hearing topic, "Corporate Efforts to Side-Step Accountability Through Bankruptcy." He frequently provides expert commentary for national media, including The Wall Street Journal, 60 Minutes (on background), The New York Times, Bloomberg News, NBC News, Law360, The Financial Times, and The Deal.

Professor Parikh's 2020 article, Bankruptcy Tourism and the European Union's Corporate Restructuring Quandary: The Cathedral in Another Light, was published in the University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law and is the culmination of his work as a Fulbright Schuman Scholar at Oxford University. The article was one of eight articles selected to be part of the Oxford Business Law Workshop Series (Trinity Term).

Professor Parikh is the Editor-in-Chief and an original contributing author for Bloomberg Law Bankruptcy Treatise.

Background:

Before entering legal academia, Professor Parikh practiced complex financial restructuring at Latham & Watkins and Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy in Los Angeles, California and Baker Botts in Houston, Texas. While in private practice, Professor Parikh's representations included the following engagements:

• In re Lehman Brothers Holdings (counsel to official committee of unsecured creditors) • In re Aloha Airlines (counsel to acquirer of assets) • In re Station Casinos (counsel to debtors) • In re Adelphia Communications Corp. (counsel to financial advisor) Virgin Airlines (bankruptcy advisor) • In re Kmart (counsel to primary landlord)

Professor Parikh holds a JD from the University of Michigan Law School. After graduation, he was a law clerk for the Honorable Alan M. Ahart of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California.

Product Information
Edition
Eighth Edition
Publication date
2023-01-31
Copyright Year
2023
Pages
768
Paperback
9798886140699
Connected eBook with Study Center (Digital Only)
9798889060185
Subject
Bankruptcy and Debtor/Creditor Law
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