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Spring Issue of the ABI Law Review Features Substantive Consolidation Serial Filings and More

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SPRING ISSUE
OF THE ABI LAW
REVIEW FEATURES SUBSTANTIVE CONSOLIDATION, SERIAL FILINGS AND
MORE

April 24, 2008, Alexandria,
Va. — The American Bankruptcy Institute
(ABI) Spring 2008
ABILaw Review
(Volume 16, No. 1), features seven articles and one student thesis
looking at a number of timely insolvency topics, including substantive
consolidation, distressed-debt investing and the effect that filing a
chapter 11 case in Delaware has on the likelihood of a debtor refiling
for bankruptcy. The issue also contains an analysis of the legal
precedent set in 1993 by the U.S. Supreme Court regarding the
admissibility of expert witnesses' testimony during federal legal
proceedings, known as the “Daubert standard.”

Spring Issue articles
include:

  • Prof. William H. Widen
    of the University of
    Miami
    w:st='on'>School of
    Law    :
    “Prevalence of Substantive Consolidation in Large Public Company
    Bankruptcies from 2000 to 2005.” Prof. Widen was awarded a grant
    by the ABI Endowment in 2006
    to further study the prevalence of substantive consolidation in large
    corporate bankruptcies.
  • Prof. Jackie Gardina of

    the
    w:st='on'>Vermont
    w:st='on'>Law
    w:st='on'>School    : “The Bankruptcy of
    Due Process: Nationwide Service Process, Personal Jurisdiction and the
    Bankruptcy Code.”


  • Prof. Michelle M.
    Harner     of the University of

    Nebraska’s
    w:st='on'>College of
    Law    : “Trends
    in Distressed Debt Investing: An Empirical Study of Investors’
    Objectives.”


  • Prof. C. Scott Pryor of

    the Regent University School of Law: “The Missing Piece of the
    Puzzle: Perspectives on the Wage Priority in
    Bankruptcy.”



  • size='3'>ABI     Resident Scholar Prof. Jack F.
    Williams     of
    w:st='on'>Georgia
    w:st='on'>State
    w:st='on'>University
    w:st='on'>Law
    w:st='on'>School    , Bankruptcy Judge Stan
    Bernstein     (E.D.N.Y) and Susan H. Seabury of BDO Seidman, LLP:

    “Squaring Bankruptcy Valuation Practice with Daubert
    Demands.”

  • Prof. Stephen J. Lubben

    of Seton
    w:st='on'>Hall
    w:st='on'>University
    w:st='on'>Law
    w:st='on'>School    : “

    w:st='on'>Delaware’s Irrelevance.”
    Prof. Lubben’s analysis was included within the overall results of

    the ABI Endowment’s
    landmark professional fee study released in 2007.


  • Prof. Jay L. Zagorsky
    of Ohio
    w:st='on'>State
    w:st='on'>University     and Prof. Lois R. Lupica of
    the University of
    Maine
    w:st='on'>School of
    Law    : “A Study

    of Consumers’ Post-Discharge Finances: Struggles, Stasis, or
    Fresh-Start?”

A student thesis recognizes the

breadth of nonassignable contracts in bankruptcy and the enforcement of
nonbankruptcy law as bankruptcy policy. The Spring issue will be mailed
next month.


size='3'>ABI’s Law Review,
published in conjunction with St. Johns University School of Law in

w:st='on'>Jamaica, N.Y., is among the
most cited and respected scholarly publications in the bankruptcy
community. It has the largest circulation of any bankruptcy law review.
Past issues of the Law Review have focused on international
insolvency, single-asset cases, high-tech and e-commerce bankruptcies,
consumer bankruptcy, the revised Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial
Code and other topics.

Members of the press looking to

obtain a copy of the Spring 2008 issue should contact
w:st='on'>John Hartgen at 703-739-0800 or
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nonpartisan organization dedicated to research and education on matters
related to insolvency. ABI
was founded in 1982 to provide Congress and the public with unbiased
analysis of bankruptcy issues. The
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attorneys, accountants, bankers, judges, professors, lenders, turnaround

specialists and other bankruptcy professionals, providing a forum for
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