International Insolvency Law

Paul Omar is a Barrister and Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Sussex, UK.

Contents: Editorial preface; Part I New Thoughts on Insolvency: Catholic social thought and corporate insolvency law, Armin J. Kammel; International trade and insolvency, Paul Todd. Part II The Law Reform Imperative: Tranched, squared and derived: credit derivative regulatory reform and the restructuring of insolvent businesses, Janis Sarra; China’s new bankruptcy law: notable features and key enforcement issues, Rebecca Parry and Haizheng Zhang; Creating a template for banking insolvency law reform after the collapse of Northern Rock, Roman Tomasic. Part III Issues in Corporate Rescue: Aggrieved shareholders as creditors: an unmapped coordinate in the cartography of Australian insolvency law, Anil Hargovan; The Australian corporate rescue provisions: how do they compare?, David Morrison and Colin Anderson. Part IV Issues for Small and Medium Enterprises: The extension of small company voluntary arrangements: a response to the Conservative Party’s corporate restructuring proposals, John Tribe. Part V Issues in Personal Insolvency: Perspectives on protecting the family home in South African insolvency law, Corlia van Heerden, André Boraine and Lienne Steyn; Debt enforcement regimes outside bankruptcy in English law: observations on current diversity and future complexity, David Milman. Part VI The UNCITRAL Projects: Representing the interests of unsecured creditors: a comparative look at UNCITRAL’s legislative guide on insolvency law, Susan Block-Lieb, Juraj Alexander and Evgeny Kovalenko; Is the future bright for enterprise groups in insolvency? An analysis of UNCITRAL’s new recommendations, Irit Mevorach; Beyond the UNCITRAL model law in Australasia: the scope for bilateral agreements, David Brown; Index.