Consumer Bankruptcy in Global Perspective

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Consumer Bankruptcy and Overindebtedness is an emerging field throughout the world. This book provides a comparative appraisal of global developments in this area. It will be one of the first book length publications focusing on comparative consumer bankruptcy and overindebtedness. It combines theoretical and empirical studies of bankruptcy regimes and consumer credit in civilian and common law jurisdictions as well as exploring current reform trends. The book will be of interest to academics, policymakers and law reformers as well as to practitioners.


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Legal and economic scholars from around the world present 17 papers from panels conducted as part of academic meetings during 2001 in Budapest. They cover theoretical perspectives on consumer bankruptcy, consumer over-indebtedness in countries without bankruptcy provisions, new consumer bankruptcy systems, changes in and evaluations of mature consumer bankruptcy regimes, and debtor education and counseling. Case studies come from Brazil, China, Portugal and the European Union, Israel, Hong Kong, England and Wales, Australia, the US, and the Netherlands. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR


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