16th Annual Duberstein Moot Court Competition
St. John's University School of Law and the American Bankruptcy Institute will again sponsor the 16th Annual Chief Judge Conrad B. Duberstein National Bankruptcy Memorial Moot Court Competition to be held at St. John's University March 8 - 10, 2008 in New York. Following the competition, the Gala Awards Dinner will be held at Pier 60 in New York.
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Fall 2007 ABI Law Review Update
The ABI Law Review is due to mail in early February and will feature five articles on the theme "The Future Of Labor Through The Prism Of Bankruptcy". Click here to read an except from an article entitled Ignored Consequences—The Conflicting Policies of Labor Law and Business Reorganization and Its Impact on Organized Labor, written by Hon. William T. Bodoh and Beth A. Buchanan. The latest issue of the Law Review will also include three additional articles and two notes on hot topics such as the impact of the cases of Marrama and Travelers, and consumer issues in the chapter 13 context.
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A Debtor World: Interdisciplinary Academic Symposium on Debt
The American Bankruptcy Institute and the University of Illinois College of Law will co-host A Debtor World: Interdisciplinary Academic Symposium on Debt, on May 2-3, 2008, at University of Illinois College of Law. The symposium will explore debt as neither a problem nor solution but as a phenomenon. Many different academic disciplines can make important contributions to help us understand why consumers and businesses decide to borrow money, what happens to businesses and consumers under a heavy debt load, and what norms and institutions societies need to encourage the efficient use of debt. Much of this knowledge is compartmentalized into intellectual silos that are rarely cross-fertilized. The goal of the conference is to promote the sharing of this knowledge.
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