October H2H: LoPucki v. Baird

Thanks to Glenn Reynolds and Cass Sunstein for their contributions to our September edition of the Head to Head debate -- we hope discussion on the very interesting issues they raised will continue on these pages.

On Monday, we'll begin the October H2H.  Lynn LoPucki, the Security Pacific Bank Professor of Law at UCLA Law School and  current visitor at  Washington University Law, will discuss his recent paper Bankruptcy  Fire Sales with our Douglas Baird. This promises to be a lively  consideration of key fundamental questions in bankruptcy. In this paper  co-authored with Joseph Doherty of UCLA Law, Lynn challenges some recent  influential work on bankruptcy (in particular, Douglas’s 2002 paper with 1985  Chicago Law grad and now-University of Southern California Dean Bob Rasmussen). Read  the paper over the weekend and show up Monday ready to talk.