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April 7, 2006: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Millennium Knickerbocker Hotel
Chicago, Illinois
On April 20, 2005, President George W. Bush signed into law S. 256, the
Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 (BAPCPA).
That law went into effect on October 17, 2005. BAPCPA not only brought the
most sweeping changes to the United States bankruptcy laws in over a
quarter of a century, since the enactment of the 1978 Bankruptcy Code,
but marked a radical reorientation in the fundamental nature and premises
of consumer bankruptcy in this country.
Now, one year after the enactment of the controversial BAPCPA reform,
a dozen of the leading bankruptcy scholars in North America explore the
significance and the impact of the new law on consumer bankruptcy and
consumer credit in the United States and around the world.
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