Articles

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Dodd-Frank, Regulatory Innovation, and the Safety of Consumer Financial Products, North Carolina Banking Institute Journal (2011)

Among the many parts of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, few...

 

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In or Out of Mortgage Trouble? A Study of Bankrupt Homeowners (with Daniel T. McCue and Eric M. Belsky), American Bankruptcy Law Journal (2011)

We examine the determinants of missed payments and foreclosure initiation among a national sample of...

 

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Credit for Motherhood, North Carolina Law Review (2010)

This essay builds on prior work exploring the impact of consumer lenders who sell credit...

 

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Managing Medical Bills on the Brink of Bankruptcy (with Mirya Holman), Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law & Ethics (2010)

This paper presents original empirical evidence on financial interactions between medical providers and their patients...

 

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The Value(s) of Foreclosure Law Reform, Pepperdine Law Review (2010)

This symposium contribution examines the starkly different values reflected in traditional legal literature on foreclosure...

 

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Bankruptcy Reform and the Financial Crisis, North Carolina Banking Institute (2009)
 

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Home Mortgage Problems Through the Lens of Bankruptcy, Loyola Journal of Public Interest Law (2009)

Based on a lecture at a predatory lending conference at Loyola University New Orleans School...

 

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The Debt Financing of Parenthood, Law and Contemporary Problems (2009)

In this contribution to the symposium Show Me the Money: Making Markets in Forbidden Exchange,...

 

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Home Ownership Beyond a Subprime Crisis: The Role of Delinquency Management, Fordham Law Review (2008)
 

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Bankruptcy Reform and Homeownership Risk, University of Illinois Law Review (2007)
 

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Individual Health Insurance Mandates and Financial Distress: A Few Notes from the Debtor-Creditor Research and Debates, University of Kansas Law Review (2007)
 

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The Debtor-Patient Revisited, Saint Louis University Law Journal (2007)
 

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Bankruptcy Reform and the Cost of Sickness: Exploring the Intersections, University of Missouri Law Review (2006)
 

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Beyond Hospital Misbehavior: An Alternative Account of Medical Related Financial Distress (with Elizabeth Warren), Northwestern Law Review (2006)
 

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Fast, Cheap, and Creditor Controlled: Is Corporate Reorganization Failing?, Buffalo Law Review (2006)
 

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Not-for-Profit Hospital Billing and Collection: Resisting Quick Legal Fixes, American Heart Hospital Journal (2005)
 

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Ripple or Revolution? The Indeterminacy of Statutory Bankruptcy Reform, American Bankruptcy Law Journal (2005)
 

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Negotiating Bankruptcy Legislation Through the News Media, Houston Law Review (2004)
 

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Review Essay on Comparative Consumer Insolvency Regimes (by Jacob Ziegel, 2003), Canadian Business Law Journal (2004)
 

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The Bankruptcy Code at Twenty-Five and the Next Generation of Lawmaking, American Bankruptcy Law Journal (2004)
 

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The Debtor-Patient: In Search of Non-Debt Alternatives, Brooklyn Law Review (2004)
 

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Does Indebtedness Influence Health? A Preliminary Inquiry, Journal of Law Medicine and Ethics (2002)

Winner of the Young Scholar Award from the American Society of Law, Medicine, and Ethics

 

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Foreclosing on Fame: Exploring the Uncharted Boundaries of the Right of Publicity (with Dianne Leenheer Zimmerman), New York University Law Review (2002)
 

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Collecting Debts from the Ill and Injured; The Rhetorical Significance, but Practical Irrelevance, of Culpability and Ability to Pay, American University Law Review (2001)
 

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Rethinking the Debates over Health Care Financing: Evidence from the Bankruptcy Courts (with Teresa A. Sullivan and Elizabeth Warren), New York University Law Review (2001)
 

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Medical Problems and Bankruptcy Filings (with Teresa A. Sullivan and Elizabeth Warren), Norton Bankruptcy Law Adviser (2000)
 

Book Chapters

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Empirical and Policy Perspectives on Consumer Bankruptcy Law in the United States (in ENDEUDAMIENTO DEL CONSUMIDOR E INSOLVENCIA FAMILIAR) (2009)

This chapter, published in Spanish, offers new empirical data from the U.S. on consumer bankruptcy...

 

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Generosity versus Accessibility: Bankruptcy, Consumer Credit, and Health Care Finance in the U.S., Consumer Bankruptcy in Global Perspective (2003)
 

Other Publications

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Prepacks and the Deal-Litigation Tension, American Bankruptcy Institute Journal (2004)
 

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The Real Bankruptcy Bill, The National Law Journal (2003)
 

Auctioning Kim Basinger: The Imminent Collision of Bankruptcy and the "Right of Publicity", Norton Bankruptcy Law Adviser (2001)
 

Unpublished Papers

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Making Debtor Remedies More Effective (2010)

Commissioned for a conference on credit markets at Harvard Business School in February 2010, this...

 

Testimony and Selected Presentations

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Presentation: Odious Debt and Commercial Law Principles: Some Skepticism, Duke Law School Symposium on Odious Debt and State Corruption (2007)
 

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Congressional Testimony: A Review of Hospital Billing and Collection Practices, Committee on Energy and Commerce, United States House of Representatives (2004)
 

Web Papers and Debates

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Identifying and Managing Household Risk: Lessons from Bankruptcy (2005)

This is a contribution to a web symposium hosted by the Social Science Research Counsel...