Abstract
This symposium piece is a response to Professor Nathalie Martin's Bringing Relevance Back to Consumer Bankruptcy. This response overviews the place consumer bankruptcy presently occupies in the United States. In doing so, it details why consumer bankruptcy remains relevant in the face of a socio-economic structure and of laws that suggest that bankruptcy may not be a particularly useful place for struggling Americans to turn to for help. The response ends by calling for a bolder vision for consumer bankruptcy in light of the shifting place of the bankruptcy system in America’s increasingly thread-bare social safety net.
Repository Citation
Pamela Foohey,
Consumer Bankruptcy Should Be Increasingly Irrelevant--Why Isn't It?
, 36 Emory Bankruptcy Developments Journal 653
(2020),
Available at: https://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/fac_artchop/1651
Previously posted on SSRN.