Margaret Howard

Publications

W&L Scholarly Commons (Available PDFs)

Books, including monographs and treatises

Bankruptcy Overview: Issues, Law and Policy (American Bankruptcy Institute 4th ed. 2002).

Cases and Materials on Bankruptcy (West 1995, 2d ed. 2001). (with Margaret Howard and Peter A. Alces)

Book Chapters

Real Estate Leases, in Chapter 11 Theory and Practice: A Guide to Reorganization (1994).

Exemptions, in Norton Bankruptcy Law and Practice (Clark Boardman Callagahn 2d ed. 1994) (looseleaf).

Law Review Articles and other scholarly publications

Bankruptcy Federalism: A Doctrine Askew, 38 Pepp. L. Rev. 1 (2010).

Bankruptcy Bondage, 2009 U. Ill. L. Rev. 191.

The Law of Unintended Consequences, 31 S. Ill. U. L.J. 451. (Available at: Lexis and Westlaw)

Exemptions Under the 2005 Bankruptcy Amendments: A Tale of Opportunity Lost, 79 Am. Bankr. L.J. 397 (2005). (Available at: Lexis and Westlaw)

Vern Countryman and Barry Zaretsky: A Legacy of Ideas, 75 Am. Bankr. L.J. 283 (2001) (Association of American Law Schools Symposium). (Available at: Hein-Online; Lexis; Westlaw)

Shifting Risk and Fixing Blame: The Vexing Problem of Credit Card Obligations in Bankruptcy, 75 Am. Bankr. L.J. 63 (2001). (Available at: Hein-Online; Lexis; Westlaw)

Bankruptcy Empiricism: Lighthouse Still No Good, 17 Bankr. Dev. J. 425 (2001) (reviewing Teresa A. Sullivan, Elizabeth Warren & Jay Lawrence Westbrook, The Fragile Middle Class: Americans in Debt (2000)). (Available at: Hein-Online; Lexis; Westlaw)

A Bankruptcy Primer for the Family Lawyer, 31 Fam. L.Q. 377 (1997). (Available at: Westlaw)

Avoiding Powers and the 1994 Amendments to the Bankruptcy Code, 69 Am. Bankr. L.J. 259 (1995) (Symposium on the 1994 Amendments). (Available at: Hein-Online; Lexis; Westlaw)

Secured Claims in Bankruptcy: An Essay on Missing the Point, 23 Cap. U. L. Rev. 313 (1994) (Symposium on Bankruptcy Reform: An Agenda for the Next Century). (Available at: Lexis; Westlaw)

Multiple Judicial Liens in Bankruptcy: Section 522(f)(1) Simplified, 67 Am. Bankr. L.J. 151(1993). (Available at: Hein-Online; Lexis; Westlaw)

Dewsnupping the Bankruptcy Code, 1 J. Bankr. Law & Prac. 513 (1992). (Available at: Westlaw)

Stripping Down Liens: Section 506(d) and the Theory of Bankruptcy, 65 Am. Bankr. L.J. 373 (1991). (Available at: Hein-Online; Lexis; Westlaw)

Equipment Lessors and Secured Parties in Bankruptcy: An Argument for Coherence, 48 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 253 (1991). (Available at: Hein-Online; Westlaw)

A Theory of Discharge in Consumer Bankruptcy, 48 Ohio St. L.J. 1047 (1987). (Available at: Hein-Online; Lexis; Westlaw)

Husband-Wife Homicide: An Essay from a Family Law Perspective, 49 Law & Contemp. Probs., Winter 1986, at 63. (Available at: Hein-Online)

Transracial Adoption: When is the Price of Cultural Identity Too High?, 14 Vand. Law. 3 (1984).

Transracial Adoption: Analysis of the Best Interests Standard, 59 Notre Dame L. Rev. 503 (1984). (Available at: Hein-Online; Lexis; Westlaw)

Allocation of Risk of Loss Under the Uniform Commercial Code: A Transactional Evaluation of Sections 2-509 and 2-510, 15 U.C.C. L.J. 334 (1983), reprinted in 1984 Corp. Couns. Ann. 951.

Recoupment of Overpayments in AFDC: Misguided Policy and Misread Statute, 75 Nw. L. Rev. 635 (1980). (Available at: Hein-Online)

Note, Relative Responsibility in AFDC: Problems Raised by the NOLEO Approach, 9 Urban L. Ann. 203 (1975). (Available at: Hein-Online)

Comment, Reinvigorated Equal Protection for Welfare Recipients–Department of Agriculture v. Moreno, 8 Urban L. Ann. 289 (1974). (Available at: Hein-Online)

Book Reviews

Book Review, 7 St. Louis L. Sch. Symp. (#3) (1980) (reviewing Mel Roman & William Haddad, The Disposable Parent: The Case for Joint Custody).

Newspapers, Website, Magazines, and other general media

Nobleman v. American Savings Bank: Of Literalism, Retroactivity and Discharge, Norton Bankr. L. Adviser, Sept. 1993.

Dew-What?, Norton Bankr. L. Adviser, March 1992.