International and Comparative Corporate Insolvency Law

Students can elect pass/fail or normal grades.  Grades are determined 50% based on the substance and thought of classroom participation and 50% on the research paper.

THE PAPER IS DUE ON MAY 14.

Papers are expected to contain original thinking, meaning, don’t simply tell us what the law is, tell us what you think it should be, and why, with appropriate citations to a variety of authoritative sources.

Students who submit a draft paper no later than April 23 will receive back a free mark-up with guidance, with no effect on your final grade.

Papers should be approximately 20-25 pages in Word, Times New Roman 12 point, with a cover page and one-inch margins.

N.B.:  grammar, diction and spelling really do matter, because poorly edited papers distract the reader from the substance that the writing is seeking to convey.

Class grades typically average out at a B+ but grading is not on a curve.

 Here are some examples of papers from previous classes

 ●   Considering the Human Interest in Corporate Default: Employing Features from the Canadian and Asutralian insolvency regimes to better protect
American Workers

 ●    The Good, The Bad and The Ugly:  How the Lithuanian Insolvency Process Can Be Improved

 ●   Beyond Chapter 15:  Call for a U.S.-Canada Insolvency Treaty

 ●   Fixing the Argentine Insolvency System To Fix the Argentine Energy Crisis

 ●   Out-Dated and Inefficient:  Indian Corporate Insolvency Law and Its Dire Need for Reform

 ●   Bankruptcy Laws, the Demise of State-Owned Enterprises, and Social Implications in China and Vietnam

 ●   Formal Corporate Rescue Procedures in Turkey:  An Analysis of Current Obstacles and Possible Solutions

 ●   A Comparison of American and Israeli Insolvency Law and an Evaluation of Whether Israel’s Insolvency Law Supports Growth as an Emerging
      Market Economy

 ●    A Comparison of American Bankruptcy Law to French Bankruptcy Law and France’s Failure To Achieve Its Objective of Saving the Enterprise

 ●   EU Insolvency Regulation and Corporate Groups: How To Determine COMI in the Insolvency of a Multinational Corporate Group

 ●   The Blame Game:  Direactor Liability for Illicit Insolvent Trading

 ●   Turnaround Investing: A Proposal for Amendment to the German Insolvency Law

 ●   A Historical and Comparative Analysis of Collective Bargaining Agreements in US and Canadian Insolvency Procedures

 ●   Foreign Dollars, Domestic Sense: International Corporate Insolvency in South Africa

 ●   Insolvency Law Reforms in Japan Following the Bubble Economy and How the US Government Could Learn from Japan’s Zombie Lending