Elizabeth Warren

Harvard Law School

Leo E. Gottlieb Professor of Law

1575 Massachusetts

Hauser 406

Cambridge, MA 02138

United States

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1.

Financial Characteristics of Businesses in Bankruptcy

American Bankruptcy Law Journal
Number of pages: 105 Posted: 17 Nov 1999
Elizabeth Warren and Jay Lawrence Westbrook
Harvard Law School and University of Texas at Austin - School of Law
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Illness and Injury as Contributors to Bankruptcy

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 09 Feb 2005
David U. Himmelstein, Elizabeth Warren, Deborah Thorne and Steffie J. Woolhandler
Harvard University - Department of Medicine, Harvard Law School, Independent and Harvard University - Department of Medicine
Downloads 1,759 (18,424)
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medical, bankruptcy, debt, illness

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Making Credit Safer

NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 08-27, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vol. 157, 2008, Harvard Law School Program on Risk Regulation Research Paper No. 08-3
Number of pages: 102 Posted: 31 May 2008 Last Revised: 12 Nov 2008
Oren Bar-Gill and Elizabeth Warren
Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School
Downloads 1,724 (18,999)
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Did Bankruptcy Reform Fail? An Empirical Study of Consumer Debtors

American Bankruptcy Law Journal, Vol. 82, pp. 349-406, 2008, U of Michigan Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 08-023, U of Michigan Public Law Working Paper No. 133, U Illinois Law & Economics Research Paper No. LE08-034, U of Texas Law, Law and Econ Research Paper No. 136, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper, U Iowa Legal Studies Research Paper No. 08-50
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 07 Nov 2008 Last Revised: 14 Jun 2016
Robert M. Lawless, Angela K. Littwin, Katherine M. Porter, John A. E. Pottow, Deborah Thorne and Elizabeth Warren
University of Illinois College of Law, University of Texas School of Law, University of California - Irvine School of Law, University of Michigan Law School, University of Idaho and Harvard Law School
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2007 Consumer Bankruptcy Project, bankruptcy reform, consumer debtors, credit risk, predatory lending

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What is a Women's Issue? Bankruptcy, Commercial Law, and Other Gender-Neutral Topics

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 19 Jun 2002
Elizabeth Warren
Harvard Law School
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Bankruptcy, Commercial Law, Women's Issues

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Medical Problems and Bankruptcy Filings

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 09 May 2000
Elizabeth Warren, Teresa A. Sullivan and Melissa B. Jacoby
Harvard Law School, University of Virginia - Office of the President and University of North Carolina School of Law
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The Growing Threat to Middle Class Families

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 31 Dec 2003
Elizabeth Warren
Harvard Law School
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The Market for Data: The Changing Role of Social Sciences in Shaping the Law

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 13 Oct 2002
Elizabeth Warren
Harvard Law School
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bankruptcy, bankruptcy law, law and social science, family and children

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Financial Collapse and Class Status: Who Goes Bankrupt?

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 27 Dec 2003
Elizabeth Warren
Harvard Law School
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Less Stigma or More Financial Distress: An Empirical Analysis of the Extraordinary Increase in Bankruptcy Filings

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 19 May 2006
Elizabeth Warren, Jay Lawrence Westbrook and Teresa A. Sullivan
Harvard Law School, University of Texas at Austin - School of Law and University of Virginia - Office of the President
Downloads 638 (77,400)
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bankruptcy, consumer

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Rethinking the Debates Over Health Care Financing: Evidence from the Bankruptcy Courts

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 17 May 2001
Melissa B. Jacoby, Teresa A. Sullivan and Elizabeth Warren
University of North Carolina School of Law, University of Virginia - Office of the President and Harvard Law School
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Bankrupt Children

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 21 Oct 2002
Elizabeth Warren
Harvard Law School
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bankruptcy, bankruptcy law, family and children

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Contracting Out of Bankruptcy: An Empirical Intervention

Harvard Law Review, Vol. 118, No. 4, p. 1197, 2005, U of Texas Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 98, U of Texas Law, Law and Econ Research Paper No. 78
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 10 May 2006
Elizabeth Warren and Jay Lawrence Westbrook
Harvard Law School and University of Texas at Austin - School of Law
Downloads 555 (92,207)
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bankruptcy, business, contractualism

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Chapter 11: Conventional Wisdom and Reality

U of Texas Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 125, 2nd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 23 Aug 2007
Jay Lawrence Westbrook and Elizabeth Warren
University of Texas at Austin - School of Law and Harvard Law School
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Bankruptcy, Chapter 11, Reorganization, Corporate, Coprorate Finance, Empirical

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The Success of Chapter 11: A Challenge to the Critics

Michigan Law Review, February 2009, U of Texas Law, Law and Econ Research Paper No. 150
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 01 Apr 2009
Elizabeth Warren and Jay Lawrence Westbrook
Harvard Law School and University of Texas at Austin - School of Law
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Shrinking the Safety Net: The 2005 Changes in U.S. Bankruptcy Law

Revista de Derecho Concursal y Paraconcursal, No. 6, 2006, U Illinois Law & Economics Research Paper No. LE06-031
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 07 Dec 2006
Robert M. Lawless and Elizabeth Warren
University of Illinois College of Law and Harvard Law School
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Beyond Hospital Misbehavior: An Alternative Account of Medical-Related Financial Distress

Northwestern University Law Review, Vol. 100, p. 535, 2006, UNC Legal Studies Research Paper No. 05-06, Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 109
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 25 Feb 2005
Melissa B. Jacoby and Elizabeth Warren
University of North Carolina School of Law and Harvard Law School
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health, bankruptcy, debtor-creditor, insurance, hospitals

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The Dialogue between Theoretical and Empirical Scholarship

U of Texas Law, Law and Econ Research Paper No. 88, Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 137
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 16 Nov 2006
Elizabeth Warren and Jay Lawrence Westbrook
Harvard Law School and University of Texas at Austin - School of Law
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theoretical, empirical, scholar

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The Myth of the Disappearing Business Bankruptcy

California Law Review, Vol. 93, No. 3, 2005
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 04 Sep 2008
Robert M. Lawless and Elizabeth Warren
University of Illinois College of Law and Harvard Law School
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Bankruptcy, Chapter 11 bankruptcy, Chapter 13 bankruptcy, Chapter 7 bankruptcy, Closing firms, Debt

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Service Pays: Creating Opportunities by Linking College with Public Service

Harvard Law and Policy Review, Vol. 1, No. 1, p. 127, 2007, Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 08-36
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 18 Sep 2008 Last Revised: 30 Sep 2008
Elizabeth Warren, Sandy Baum and Ganesh Sitaraman
Harvard Law School, The Urban Institute and Vanderbilt Law School
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education, college loans, student debt, stafford loans, public service, college repayment