Baird Testifies Before House Committee on the Judiciary about the Bankruptcy Code; Macey Article Presented

Hearings; Oversight of the Bankruptcy Code, Part 1: Confronting Abuses of the Chapter 11 System; Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law

Date: Wednesday, July 28, 2021 - 10:00am

Oversight of the Bankruptcy Code, Part 1: Confronting Abuses of the Chapter 11System

Support Documents

  • Hearing Notice [PDF]
  • Statement for the Record from Marci A. Hamilton, Founder & CEO, CHILD USA submitted by The Honorable David N. Cicilline [PDF]Added 07/28/2021 at 04:51 PM
  • Statement for the Record from Terin Humphrey, Silver Medal Olympic Gymnast, submitted by The Honorable David N. Cicilline [PDF]Added 07/28/2021 at 04:51 PM
  • Article by Joshua Macey and Jackson Salovaara titled "Bankruptcy as Bailout: Coal Company Insolvency and the Erosion of Federal Law," Stanford Law Review, submitted by the Honorable Mary Gay Scanlon [PDF]Added 07/28/2021 at 04:51 PM

First Published: July 23, 2021 at 09:48 AM

Witnesses

Mr. Douglas G. Baird
Chair, National Bankruptcy Conference; and Harry A. Bigelow Distinguished Service Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School

  • Baird Statement [PDF]
  • Baird Truth in Testimony [PDF]
  • Baird Bio [PDF]

Mr. Adam Levitin
Anne Fleming Research Professor and Professor of Law, Georgetown Law

  • Levitin Statement [PDF]
  • Levitin Truth in Testimony [PDF]

Ms. Alexis Pleus
Founder, Executive Director, Board Ex Officio Chair, Truth Pharma

  • Pleus Statement [PDF]
  • Pleus Truth in Testimony [PDF]
  • Pleus Bio [PDF]

Ms. Tasha Schwikert Moser
Bronze Medal Olympic Gymnast, Attorney, and Sex Abuse Survivor

  • Schwikert Moser Statement [PDF]
  • Schwikert Moser Bio [PDF]

Mr. David A. Skeel, Jr.
S. Samuel Arsht Professor of Corporate Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School

  • Skeel Statement [PDF]
  • Skeel Truth in Testimony [PDF]
  • Skeel Bio [PDF]

The Honorable William Tong
Attorney General, The State of Connecticut

  • Tong Statement [PDF]

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