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       Paper Stats    Abstract Views    Downloads Debt's Dominion A History of Bankruptcy Law in America University of Pennsylvania Law School     Abstract      The American approach to personal and corporate bankruptcy is unique in the world providing the most generous provisions for canceling an individual's debts Corporate debtors are given more flexibility than anywhere else to renegotiate their obligations and start over Why did American bankruptcy diverge in almost every conceivable respect from its antecedents in English law and from the current English system? These questions have taken on great importance as other nations increasingly look to the U S in reforming their own insolvency and business regulation This volume draws on the insights of a wide range of disciplines including political science economics law and history to explain the remarkable history of U S bankruptcy law The distinctive contours of U S bankruptcy law are seen as emerging from the confluence of three political factors the growth of an organized creditor lobby; the countervailing pressure of pro debtor ideological currents whose influence is magnified by American federalism; and the emergence of an increasingly powerful bankruptcy bar These factors explain why in the th century large scale corporate

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