The American
Bankruptcy Institute Law Review, Center
for Bankruptcy Studies and The
Ronald H. Brown Center for Civil Rights and Economic
Development are pleased to present their Fall 2012
symposium:
Bankruptcy and Race: Is There a Relation?
In a recent study of personal bankruptcy cases and practitioners,
Professors Jean Braucher, Dov Cohen and Robert Lawless made a
troubling finding: the debtor's race appears to affect the advice
that lawyers give about whether to file for bankruptcy under
Chapter 7 or Chapter 13 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code. Is this
finding correct? And if so, what are its implications for
bankruptcy law and policy? This symposium will bring together
leading bankruptcy, empirical, and race scholars to address these
questions through commentary on the Braucher study and a reply from
the primary study authors.
Date
Friday, October 19, 2012
Time
8:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Location
St. John's
School of Law
Belson Moot Court Room | Second Floor
8000 Utopia Parkway
Queens, NY 11439
Agenda
8:30-9 a.m.
Registration and Coffee
9 a.m.
Greetings
Michael A. Simons, Dean and John V. Brennan Professor of Law, St.
John’s School of Law
Welcome
Leonard M. Baynes, Director, The Ronald H. Brown Center for Civil
Rights and
Economic Development, Professor of Law, St. John’s School of
Law
9:30-11:30 a.m.
Commentator Panel
Moderator
Keith Sharfman, Professor of Law, Associate Director of Bankruptcy
Studies, St. John's School of Law
Panelists
- A. Mechele Dickerson, Arthur L. Moller Chair in Bankruptcy Law
and Practice, The University of Texas School of Law
- Joseph Doherty, Director, Empirical Research Group, UCLA School
of Law
- Theodore Eisenberg, Henry Allen Mark Professor of Law, Cornell
University Law School
- Daniel Keating, Tyrell Williams Professor of Law, Washington
University School of Law
- Stephen Lubben, Harvey Washington Wiley Chair in Corporate
Governance & Business Ethics, Seton Hall University School of
Law
11:45 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.
Author Response
Moderator
G. Ray Warner, Associate Dean for Bankruptcy Studies, Professor of
Law, St. John's School of Law
Panelists
- Jean Braucher, Roger C. Henderson Professor of Law, University
of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law
- Dov Cohen, Professor, Department of Psychology, University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Robert Lawless, Professor of Law, University of Illinois
College of Law
1-2:30 p.m.
Lunch and Keynote Address
Introduction to Keynote Address
Janai S. Nelson, Associate Professor of Law, Associate Director,
The Ronald H. Brown Center for Civil Rights and Economic
Development, St. John’s School of Law
Keynote Speaker
Emma Coleman Jordan, Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law
Center
Continuing Legal Education (CLE)
The symposium qualifies for 3.5 non-transitional CLE credit hours.
The CLE fee is $75. No partial credit will be awarded. Hardship
tuition reduction is available. Please complete and return the
CLE payment form by Thursday, October 18, 2012 to receive CLE
credit for attending the symposium.
Registration
There is no fee to attend the symposium, but advance registration
is required. To register, please complete and submit the
online registration form by Monday, October 15, 2012.
More Information
Margaret St. Denis
Center for Bankruptcy Studies
stdenism@stjohns.edu
(718) 990-5343