Please join us for the
April 2, 2012
5:30 p.m. Registration and Cocktails
6:30 p.m. Dinner and Awards Presentation
Maggiano's Atlanta Buckhead
3368 Peachtree Road
Atlanta, Georgia 30326
Map and directions
Each year the Emory Bankruptcy Developments Journal honors an individual with the Distinguished Service Award for Lifetime Achievement. This year, we are delighted to present the Distinguished Service Award to the Honorable Justice Geoffrey B. Morawetz.
Please contact Editor-in-Chief Merriam Mikhail merriam.mikhail(at)emory.edu for sponsorship details. Registrants from sponsoring firms, law school faculty, judges and law clerks should RSVP directly to Hannah Heck heheck(at)emory.eduheheck(at)emory.edu.
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Stephanie Bentley, Responding to Stern v. Marshall
Dominick Capotosto, Educational Expense Deductions from the Chapter 13 Plan: Creating a "Reasonably Necessary" Standard
Steve Ferketic, A Case for Chapter 10: A New Approach for Handling the Financial Failures of Systemically Significant Corporations
Kelly Gould, Don't Rely Solely on Plain Meaning, Trust Your Intuition: Trustees Are Not "Individuals" Eligible to Recover Punitive Damages Under § 362(k)
Anthony Hall, To Include or To Not Include: Examining When Attorney's Fees May Be Awarded Under § 362(k)(1)
Emily Lee, Installment Land Contracts in Purchaser Bankruptcy
Kimberly Lehnert, Termination of the Stay for Successive Filers: Interpreting § 362(c)(3)
Yvana Mols, Bankruptcy Stigma and Vulnerability: Questioning Autonomy and Structuring Resilience
Samantha Orovitz, The Bankruptcy Shadow: Section 525(b) and the Job Applicant's Sisyphean Struggle for a "Fresh Start"
Alla Raykin, 363 Sales: Mooting Due Process?
Editor-in-Chief
Steve Ferketic
Executive Managing Editors
Thomas Hsieh
Edward Philpot
Alla Raykin
Executive Notes & Comments Editor
Stephanie Bentley
Executive Articles Editor
Alexander Kass
Executive Symposium Editor
Yvana Mols
Executive Editor of Best of the Web
Kelly Gould
A TRIBUTE TO TONY ALVAREZ II AND BRYAN MARSAL
Merriam Mikhail, Introduction
Bill Runge, Tribute
Bryan Marsal, Acceptance Remarks
Tony Alvarez, Acceptance Remarks
ARTICLES
Stephen J. Lubben, The Chapter 11 Financial Advisors
Tiffany R. Harper, Gelding the Lily: How the Bankruptcy Code’s Promotion of Marriage Leaves it Impotent
Anthony Sexton, Indubitably Uncertain: Philadelphia Newspapers and the Role of Valuation Uncertainty in Attempted Cramdown of All-Equity Plans
COMMENTS
Hannah Heck, Solving Insolvent Public Pensions: The Limitations of the Current Bankruptcy Option
Merriam Mikhail, Extra! Extra!: Philadelphia Newspapers Jeopardizes Credit Bidding
Daniel A. Nolan IV, A “Fundamental” Problem: The Vulnerability of Intellectual Property Licenses in Chapter 15 and the Meaning of § 1506
Mantas Valiunas, Anything But Automatic: Dismissal Under § 521