Debts and the Demands of Conscience: The Virtue of Bankruptcy

by Ralph Brubaker and Heidi M. Hurd

The 'fresh start' that is afforded individual debtors through the discharge doctrines of American bankruptcy law has, to date, defied justification by a single normative principle or theoretical paradigm. The justificatory accounts that have been advanced either fail to explain core doctrines that have long defined the right of discharge or invite theoretical challenges that suggest that their descriptive virtues are swamped by their normative or...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199642966
• ISBN13: 9780199642960
• Release Date: September 2026
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 250 Pages