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Bankruptcy and Article 9: 2026 Statutory Supplement

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  • Pamela Foohey
  • Robert M. Lawless
  • Angela K. Littwin
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576 pages
Publication Date
2026-08-05
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Bankruptcy and Article 9: 2026 Statutory Supplement is an essential reference resource for bankruptcy and secured transactions courses that is smaller, lighter, and more portable than competing supplements. The supplement includes the entirety of UCC Articles 1, 9, and 12, as well as key excerpts from UCC Articles 2 and 8. For a bankruptcy course, the supplement also contains the federal Bankruptcy Code, select provisions from the Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure, the bankruptcy crimes provisions from title 18 of the United States Code, and the bankruptcy jurisdictional provisions from title 28. Other statutes important for secured transactions are included, such as the Uniform Voidable Transactions Act, Uniform Motor Vehicle Certificate of Title and Anti-Theft Act, Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, and Federal Tax Lien Act.

New to the 2026 Edition:

• New team of Pamela Foohey, Robert M. Lawless, and Angela Littwin updating this supplement, which formerly was curated by Elizabeth Warren and Robert M. Lawless.

• Updates to the official text and comments of the UCC with the most recent revisions compiled by the Permanent Editorial Board for the Uniform Commercial Code.

• Streamlining of materials to reduce bulk. 

Professors and students will benefit from:

• Careful curation of necessary statutory provisions for use in bankruptcy and secured transactions courses avoiding the bulk of unnecessary statutes.

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About the authors
Pamela Foohey

Pamela Foohey is Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota Law School. Specializing in bankruptcy, commercial law, consumer finance, and business law, Foohey’s scholarship primarily involves empirical studies of bankruptcy and related parts of the legal system. She presently is a co-investigator on the Consumer Bankruptcy Law Project, a long-term research project studying persons who file bankruptcy. Data from this research project serve as the basis of her co-authored book Debt’s Grip: Risk and Consumer Bankruptcy, University of California Press (2025). Her work in business bankruptcy focuses on nonprofit entities. Data from this project are included in her forthcoming book Forgive Us Our Debts: How Black Churches Use Bankruptcy to Survive, University of Chicago Press (2026). Leading journals publishing her work include Virginia Law Review, Southern California Law Review, Boston College Law Review, Notre Dame Law Review and Law & Contemporary Problems, among others.

Foohey is a member of the American College of Bankruptcy and the American Law Institute. She has assisted members of Congress and federal and state agencies in the areas of bankruptcy and consumer credit. She has also provided expert media commentary for high profile publications such as The New York Times, Financial Times and The Washington Post, in addition to Bloomberg and National Public Radio.

Robert M. Lawless
University of Illinois College of Law

A nationally recognized expert in bankruptcy law, consumer finance, and empirical legal studies, Robert M. Lawless is the Max L. Rowe Professor of Law. Professor Lawless has published extensively on topics related to financial distress, business and consumer bankruptcy, and the intersection of law and social science. He co-directs the College of Law’s Program on Law, Behavior & Social Science and is a faculty affiliate of the university’s Center for Social & Behavioral Science and Cline Center for Advanced Social Research. Committed to bridging scholarship and real-world policy, Professor Lawless has played a key role in shaping discussions on bankruptcy reform.

Professor Lawless is a co-author of Debt’s Grip: Risk and Consumer Bankruptcy. Scheduled for release in August 2025, Debt’s Grip combines empirical data with personal narratives from bankruptcy filers to document what it means to live in financial precarity. Professor Lawless is also a co-author of leading textbooks in the fields of secured transactions and empirical methods in law. He administers and contributes to the blog Credit Slips, a discussion on credit, finance, and bankruptcy. He is a co-principal investigator in the Consumer Bankruptcy Project, a long-term research project studying persons who file bankruptcy.

Professor Lawless has served in leadership roles in major legal organizations, including the National Bankruptcy Conference and the American College of Bankruptcy. As the reporter for the American Bankruptcy Institute’s Commission on Consumer Bankruptcy (2017–2019), he played a pivotal role in shaping its findings, earning the ABI’s 2019 Annual Service Award. He has testified before the U.S. Senate on consumer protection and bankruptcy reform and has been an influential voice in policy discussions.

Born and raised in Illinois, Professor Lawless earned both his undergraduate degree in accounting and his law degree from the University of Illinois. During law school, he served as editor-in-chief of the University of Illinois Law Review. Before joining the University of Illinois, he taught at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and the University of Missouri. He also held visiting professorships at Washington University in St. Louis and The Ohio State University. He began his legal career as a law clerk for the Honorable Harlington Wood, Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit before practicing law in Washington, D.C.
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Publication date
2026-08-05
Copyright Year
2026
Pages
576
eBook
9798899640773
Subject
Bankruptcy and Debtor/Creditor Law
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