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OverviewReinventing Bankruptcy Law explodes conventional wisdom about the history of the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act and in its place offers the first historical account of Canada's premier corporate restructuring statute. The book adopts a novel research approach that combines legal history, socio-legal theory, ideas from political science, and doctrinal legal analysis. Meticulously researched and multi-disciplinary, Reinventing Bankruptcy Law provides a comprehensive and concise history of CCAA law over the course of the twentieth century, framing developments within broader changes in Canadian institutions including federalism, judicial review, and statutory interpretation. Examining the influence of private parties and commercial practices on lawmaking, Virginia Torrie argues that CCAA law was shaped by the commercial needs of powerful creditors to restructure corporate borrowers, providing a compelling thesis about the dynamics of legal change in the context of corporate restructuring. Torrie exposes the errors in recent case law to devastating effect and argues that courts and the legislature have switched roles leading to the conclusion that contemporary CCAA courts function like a modern day Court of Chancery. This book is essential reading for the Canadian insolvency community as well as those interested in Canadian institutions, legal history, and the dynamics of change. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Virginia TorriePublisher: University of Toronto Press Imprint: University of Toronto Press Dimensions: Width: 15.90cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.620kg ISBN: 9781487506421ISBN 10: 1487506422 Pages: 312 Publication Date: 28 May 2020 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsReviewsTorrie has written a scholarly, impressively researched, and thought-provoking analysis of Canada's foremost insolvency legislation. In the course of so doing she has provided her readers with a most interesting revelation of its history. - Tim Kennish, Oslin, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP, Canadian Business History Association Most sophisticated American restructuring attorneys know that the CCAA is like chapter 11, but many of us know little more than that. Professor Torrie's book explains why and how the CCAA grew to mirror chapter 11, and why this new understanding of the CCAA may have little to do with the actual intent of the drafters back in the 1930s. For any American reader who wants to really understand the CCAA, and its modern-day relation to chapter 11, this is a must read book. - Stephen J. Lubben, Harvey Washington Wiley Chair in Corporate Governance & Business Ethics, Seton Hall University School of Law Real time litigation under the CCAA does not permit most practitioners to engage in much historical analysis. In a breakthrough book based on detailed research and novel analysis, Dr. Virginia Torrie offers the busy practitioner insight into the history of the CCAA, including the evolution of filling gaps and advancing the broader public interest. Reinventing Bankruptcy Law is bound to be persuasive to any court. - Vern W. DaRe, Fogler, Rubinoff LLP and co-author of Debt Restructuring: Principles and Practice and Honsberger's Bankruptcy in Canada With impressive scholarship, Reinventing Bankruptcy Law provides an excellent, accessible short history of the CCAA. Virginia Torrie draws upon political science and socio-legal theory to explore why a piece of federal restructuring legislation, hardly used in its enactment during the Depression, became a staple of restructuring practice in the 1980s and onwards. Torrie's account is comprehensive, well framed, and well evidenced. - Adrian Walters, Ralph L. Brill Professor of Law, Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology Most sophisticated American restructuring attorneys know that the CCAA is like chapter 11, but many of us know little more than that. Professor Torrie's book explains why and how the CCAA grew to mirror chapter 11, and why this new understanding of the CCAA may have little to do with the actual intent of the drafters back in the 1930s. For any American reader who wants to really understand the CCAA, and its modern-day relation to chapter 11, this is a must read book. - Stephen J. Lubben, Harvey Washington Wiley Chair in Corporate Governance & Business Ethics, Seton Hall University School of Law Real time litigation under the CCAA does not permit most practitioners to engage in much historical analysis. In a breakthrough book based on detailed research and novel analysis, Dr. Virginia Torrie offers the busy practitioner insight into the history of the CCAA, including the evolution of filling gaps and advancing the broader public interest. Reinventing Bankruptcy Law is bound to be persuasive to any court. - Vern W. DaRe, Fogler, Rubinoff LLP and co-author of Debt Restructuring: Principles and Practice and Honsberger's Bankruptcy in Canada With impressive scholarship, Reinventing Bankruptcy Law provides an excellent, accessible short history of the CCAA. Virginia Torrie draws upon political science and socio-legal theory to explore why a piece of federal restructuring legislation, hardly used in its enactment during the Depression, became a staple of restructuring practice in the 1980s and onwards. Torrie's account is comprehensive, well framed, and well evidenced. - Adrian Walters, Ralph L. Brill Professor of Law, Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology Author InformationVirginia Torrie is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Manitoba, and serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Banking and Finance Law Review. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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