Finding our way: secured transactions and corporate bankruptcy law and policy in America and England

Paterson, Sarah ORCID: 0000-0002-7862-4919 (2018) Finding our way: secured transactions and corporate bankruptcy law and policy in America and England. Journal of Corporate Law Studies. ISSN 1473-5970

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Abstract

This article is concerned with debate in England as to whether English law has tipped too far in favour of promoting corporate bankruptcy law’s policy concerns to the detriment of an effective secured transactions law regime, and debate in America as to whether reform to secured transactions law has tipped too far in favour of secured transaction law’s policy concerns to the detriment of an effective corporate bankruptcy regime. Through a detailed analysis of the evolutionary history of secured transactions and corporate bankruptcy law and policy in both America and England, the article analyses why each jurisdiction approaches balancing the policy objectives in a fundamentally different way, and the role which the very different institutional environments in corporate bankruptcy have played in mediating between them. It argues that this legal and institutional evolutionary history suggests relatively modest ongoing reform in both jurisdictions, closely adapted to local conditions.

Item Type:	Article
Official URL:	http://www.tandfonline.com/rcls20
Additional Information:	© 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group
Divisions:	Law
Subjects:	K Law > K Law (General)
Date Deposited:	06 Feb 2018 16:49
Last Modified:	01 Nov 2024 04:15
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/86657

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