Bankrupt: Global Lawmaking and Systemic Financial Crisis

Through the lens of the Asian Financial Crisis, this book documents how international organizations and national governments crafted legal responses, through corporate bankruptcy reforms, to the fragility of financial markets in East Asia and worldwide.

Author: Terence C. Halliday, Bruce G. Carruthers
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 04/20/2009
Pages: 536
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.85lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.30w x 1.40d
ISBN: 9780804760744

Review Citation(s):
Chronicle of Higher Education 05/29/2009 pg. 18
Choice 12/01/2009

About the Author
Terence C. Halliday is Co-Director of the Center on Law and Globalization, the American Bar Foundation-University of Illinois College of Law. Bruce G. Carruthers is Gerald F. and Marjorie G. Fitzgerald Professor of Economic History in the Department of Sociology at Northwestern University. They are coauthors of Rescuing Business: The Making of Corporate Bankruptcy Law in England and the United States (1998).