Logic and the Limits of Bankruptcy Law

by Thomas H. Jackson

This book sets forth a careful analysis of the fundamentals of bankruptcy law. It provides a keen insight into the subject. The author's premise is that there is an intellectual coherence that underlies bankruptcy law and that its first or underlying principles are few and elegant. Bankruptcy law can be used to keep firms in operation, and bankruptcy law inevitably touches other bodies of law. These principles can then be developed by defining their potential operation in the existing social, economic, and legal world to identify precisely what bankruptcy law should encompass, how it can accomplish its goals, and the constraints on its ability to do so. The purpose of the book is to suggest what the underpinnings of bankruptcy law should be and then to apply that learning to a variety of issues while testing the existing bankruptcy law against them. The book is designed to prod analysts to think about these underpinnings in analyzing bankruptcy problems. This book will prove interesting reading to bankruptcy attorneys, other attorneys, business persons, and those fascinated by the interplay between economics and policy.

287 pages, Hardcover

First published November 3, 1986

About the author

Thomas H. Jackson was the ninth president of the University of Rochester. He is known as one of the nation's foremost experts on bankruptcy law.

He is also Chairman of the Board of Trustees of George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film, and was vice president and provost of the University of Virginia, following his appointment as dean of the School of Law. He has also been a professor of law at Harvard Law School (1986-1988) and served at Stanford University (1977-1986).

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