Bankruptcy   [Archived Catalog]
2015-2016 School of Law Academic Catalog
   

LAW 753 - Bankruptcy

Credits, 3 sem. hrs.
Corequisite(s): Secured Transactions and Creditors’ Rights (LAW 621) .

This course will provide a comprehensive survey of basic bankruptcy law. The course will focus primarily on consumer bankruptcy and introduce business bankruptcy. The course will touch on the economic, political, and ethical issues underlying bankruptcy’s competing goals: providing overextended consumer and business debtors with a fresh start and satisfying creditors’ claims in an orderly, fair way.