John D. Ayer

Some Awkward Questions about American Bankruptcy Law: An Agenda for Comparativists

The contemporary boom in bankruptcy activity has seen a corresponding explosion in bankruptcy scholarship and analysis in the United States. Much attention has been turned to the task of defining and clarifying the important issues in bankruptcy law, and in this article the author canvasses a number of the key questions which provide an agenda for scholars around the world. n n n nAux Etats-Unis, la recrudescence de faillites a paralleelement engendre une multitude detudes et danalyses sur linsolvabilite. Une attention toute particuliere a ete a la definition et a la clarification des points principaux quant au droit de la faillite. Dans cet article, lautuer examine un certain nombre de questions-cles qui fournissent un programme detude aux chercheurs dans le monde entier.