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Event Program
Get PDFThe Fifteenth Annual
EMORY BANKRUPTCY DEVELOPMENTS JOURNAL SYMPOSIUM
February 22, 2018 | 8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. | Tull Auditoriu
Workshop Invitation
Get PDFFriday, March 12, 2021 | 10:00 a.m. to 3:15 p.m. EDT
Emory Bankruptcy Developments Journal Workshop
This year, the EBDJ is publishing a special issue entitled the “Developments Issue” that will feature essays from some of the top bankruptcy scholars in the United States. In conjunction with the publication of this special issue, the Journal is hosting this workshop for authors to discuss their pieces and to take questions and comments from workshop attendees and fellow panelists.
Speakers include: Professor Laura Coordes, Professor Odette Lienau, Professor Anthony Casey, Professor Joshua Macey, Professor George Triantis, Professor Jared Ellias, and Professor Jay Westbrook
Access to Consumer Bankruptcy
No full textThis record is for a(n) offprint of an article published in Emory Bankruptcy Developments Journal on 2018-06-01.Over the past decade, each year, about a million households filed bankruptcy. This figure initially may loom large. But when compared to the one-third of Americans who have fallen behind on debt payments, the one in seven Americans who face debt collection calls every year, and the hundreds of millions of Americans burdened with debt, the figure becomes more significant for its seemingly relative fewness. Financial distress undoubtedly leads people to seek bankruptcy protection, but the path to filing is more complicated than mere finances. Indeed, on a purely financial basis, far fewer households than one might estimate would benefit financially from bankruptcy actually file. As with people’s use of the legal system more generally, whether someone will file bankruptcy depends on a variety of factors often identified under the umbrella of “access to justice.”offprin
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