International Cooperation in Bankruptcy and Insolvency Matters

Name: International Cooperation in Bankruptcy and Insolvency Matters
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Bob Wessels · Hon. Bruce A Markell · Jason Kilborn

2009年4月 · Oxford University Press

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International Cooperation in Bankruptcy and Insolvency is published in cooperation with the International Insolvency Institute and the American College of Bankruptcy. The Honorable Bruce A. Markell, Dr. Bob Wessels and Prof. Jason Kilborn provide readers with invaluable insights into the origin, development and future of communication and cooperation in cross-border insolvency cases between insolvency practitioners and the courts. The globalization of the world's economy has led to highly complex international aspects of financial reorganization and restructuring. This publication analyzes the structures, systems, and practices that have developed and are quickly emerging to coordinate and enhance international administrations.

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Bruce A. Markell is a United States Bankruptcy Judge for the District of Nevada. Before taking the bench, he practiced bankruptcy and business law for ten years and was a law professor for fourteen; he is also the Senior Fellow in Bankruptcy and Commercial Law at the William S. Boyd School of Law at the University of Nevada Las Vegas. He is the author of numerous articles on bankruptcy and commercial law, and a co-author of four law school casebooks. He was the International Bar Association's representative to UNCITRAL's Assignment of Receivables Convention, and was an adviser to the United Nations on Secured Transactions and to the Republic of Indonesia on Secured Transactions and Bankruptcy. Bob Wessels is Professor of International Insolvency Law at the University of Leiden Law School, the Netherlands, an independent legal counselor and advisor, primarily in the area of cross-border insolvency, and since 1987 Deputy Justice at the Court of Appeal, The Hague. He is Chairman of the Academic Forum of INSOL Europe, and has over thirty years of experience in general commercial and corporate law, contract law, and insolvency law. With fifteen books on (international) insolvency law, Professor Wessels is among the world's primary experts on international insolvency law. Jason Kilborn teaches business and commercial law (including bankruptcy) at John Marshall Law School in Chicago. Before joining the academy, he spent two years in practice as an associate at two major law firms in New York and Washington, D.C., focusing on bankruptcy litigation and corporate reorganization. Professor Kilborn has developed a specialization in the comparative analysis of legal regimes for combating consumer financial distress. He has written several pioneering articles and a book examining the emergent consumer insolvency systems in Germany, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Austria, and Sweden, and he has presented papers on comparative consumer bankruptcy law and policy at several national and international conferences.