Less than two weeks until the Financial Precarity in the United States conference, which dovetails with the publication of Debt's Grip: Risk and Consumer Bankruptcy, at @ugaschooloflaw.bsky.social. Message me for details. Learn more here: www.law.uga.edu/financial-pr...
30.09.2025 15:27 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Debt's Grip
On Aug 15, @bji.bsky.social hosted a book event for Debt's Grip. Judge Erithe Smith led a discussion about the book with me and my co-authors, @boblawless.bsky.social and Debb Thorne. We talked about themes and presented some key data. Recording now available! www.law.berkeley.edu/research/bji...
11.09.2025 22:00 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
I'm off to the Chicago-Wharton-Harvard Insolvency & Restructuring Conference. Looking forward to geeking out about bankruptcy law soon!
11.09.2025 21:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Debt's Grip by Pamela Foohey, Robert Lawless, Deborah Thorne - Paper
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
Through people's experiences, we highlight particularly problematic issues in their lives, particularly problematic credit products, and particularly vulnerable populations. We wrote the book to be accessible to everyone--nonlawyers and lawyers. Find more on UC Press: www.ucpress.edu/books/debts-...
05.08.2025 12:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Consumer Bankruptcy Project
Data comes from the Consumer Bankruptcy Project, consumerbankruptcyproject.org.
Using the bankruptcy filers' own words, the book details the privations and struggles they suffer in the years leading up to their decisions to file bankruptcy.
05.08.2025 12:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Official release date for Debt's Grip: Risk and Consumer Bankruptcy, from University of California Press!! In it, @boblawless.bsky.social, Deborah Thorne, and I draw on 11 years of court records and surveys from bankruptcy filers to describe what it means to live in financial precarity in the US.
05.08.2025 12:50 — 👍 10 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 2
Listing to be posted soon. please direct letters of interest and cv/resume to lawhiring@uga.edu. (2/2)
02.07.2025 15:41 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
UGA School of Law is hiring professors! Open rank search, 4-5 positions. Priorities: torts, contracts, property, environmental, bankruptcy, secured transactions. Other: international, banking, business, administrative, employment. Teaching in more than one listed discipline especially helpful. (1/2)
02.07.2025 15:41 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
It also addresses how these issues intersect with demographic skews of bankruptcy filers (Black households, single women, and older Americans).
05.06.2025 10:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The book draws on data about the people who file bankruptcy to illustrate what it means to live in financial precarity in the US. It focuses on homes and mortgages, cars and auto loans, medical expenses and health care, education and students loans, the changing nature of work, and debt collection.
05.06.2025 10:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Debt's Grip by Pamela Foohey, Robert Lawless, Deborah Thorne - Paper
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
In two months, on August 5, my new co-authored book, Debt's Grip: Risk and Consumer Bankruptcy, published by University of California Press, will be out! (Co-authored with @boblawless.bsky.social and Deborah Thorne, University of Idaho.) More about the book here: www.ucpress.edu/books/debts-...
05.06.2025 10:41 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Law Professors! Attending AALS 2026? Are you publishing (in 2025/2026) a book that is based on data you collected via a social science empirical technique? Think about submitting to this call for proposals for the book panel organized by Law and the Social Sciences Section. Email me if you have Qs.
03.06.2025 13:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I'm SO EXCITED to become part of Minnesota Law (in a year)! And I'm grateful to have one more year at UGA Law to finish some really great empirical research about debt collection and enjoy the company of my excellent colleagues there. MN is where I started my career (post-clerking); I'm coming back!
06.05.2025 15:27 — 👍 19 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Great to be part of this colloquium and to have the chance to engage with @trangmae.bsky.social's work!
11.04.2025 13:39 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The ACA was momentous! We need to continue to fight for change!
23.03.2025 14:08 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Bob Lawless sums up the quote by Lawrence A. Friedman in Bloomberg Law's reporting on Tara Twomey's (almost certainly illegal) firing as the executive director of the U.S. Trustee Program aptly -- appalling. Read the post for more about Twomey's exceptional record.
12.03.2025 22:38 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Trump Administration has fired another effective and dedicated public servant.
08.03.2025 22:03 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Are you at UGA Law today??
21.02.2025 12:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Wait, I can simply switch between my personal account and the Credit Slips account. I don't need to logout and login? This is already better than the Bad Place. And, yes, for those of you in the field, we now have a blog account as well. Stay tuned.
09.02.2025 22:50 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Credit Slips, the blog, is now on Bluesky! This is the account run by the Slipsters. @creditslipsblog.bsky.social
09.02.2025 23:44 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Adam Levitin explains how the CFPB's acting director is already breaking the law.
Russ Vought Breaks the Law on His First Day as CFPB Director
www.creditslips.org/creditslips/...
09.02.2025 10:58 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Non-Bankruptcy Law in Bankruptcy Courts - Credit Slips
This past year's American Bankruptcy Law Journal symposium at the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges' Annual Meeting addressed the role of bankruptcy law in the larger U.S. legal system. The ABL...
After a long hiatus, finally posted again on Credit Slips. About my essay recently published in American Bankruptcy Law Journal, in conjunction with its symposium at National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges 2024 meeting.
Non-Bankruptcy Law in Bankruptcy Courts, www.creditslips.org/creditslips/...
08.02.2025 15:45 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Billions of dollars for millions of Americans: why 'delete the CFPB' might not fly
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been a political punching bag for years, but on the eve of a new Trump administration, it might survive.
The #CFPB is a fantastic agency and it needs to be here to stay. Great piece by @riquier.bsky.social of @usatoday.com on the CFPB's effectiveness and how it has endured since its creation. (Plus I'm quoted and my paper about the CFPB complaint database is linked!) www.usatoday.com/story/money/...
10.01.2025 18:01 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Regulating LGBTQ Speech in the Classroom
Public school teachers across the country have found their speech relating to LGBTQ students and issues more regulated than ever. In left-leaning states, some r
**NOW AVAILABLE**
Regulating LGBTQ Speech in the Classroom
Under existing law, teachers teaching is govt speech unprotected by free speech
This rule mistakenly assumes that the Free Speech Clause protects only speakers and not audiences-- in this case students
#LGBTQ #FreeSpeech #FirstAmendment
10.12.2024 12:40 — 👍 17 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 0
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A discussion about credit, finance, and bankruptcy. This is the account run by the Credit Slips blog authors.
Mainly stuff from my day job as a law professor at the University of Illinois teaching bankruptcy and consumer law with occasional digressions
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Professor of Law, Co-Director of the Kathryn O. Greenberg Immigration Justice Clinic, Cardozo Law
Law professor at the American University Washington College of Law (but all views expressed here are my own); author of Fintech Dystopia and Driverless Finance; mythbusting crypto, AI, and other fintech
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