Research past present and future

• Collateral (book project in progress about secured debt and commercial law in America)

• Commercial law and the U.S. Supreme Court

• The Uniform Commercial Code that almost wasn’t

• Bankruptcy, Genetic Information, and Privacy (New England Journal of Medicine (with Gerke & Cohen)

• Unjust Debts (The New Press)

• Municipal bankruptcy and federalism

• Going-concern sales of bankrupt companies (and this book chapter)

• Consumer protection (most recent here)

• Determinants of personal bankruptcy

• Lender control of businesses (recent example here)

• Commercial law treatment of rights of publicity

• Residential foreclosure (policy discussion here; empirical research here and here)

• Judicial behavior/judicial ethics/settlement promotion

• The Bankruptcy Code at 25

• Legislation and the news media

• Hospital billing and collection practices

• Fertility finance and adoption finance

• Empirical studies on medical problems & bankruptcy (early source prompting press reports here; explanations of divergent studies here and here)

Many recent articles and working papers are here (free registration & downloads)

For other access to publications, see here