Checking up with BARF:Evaluating the effectiveness, challenges and shortcomings of theBankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005.

Authors

Robert Slimak

Abstract

Following this introduction, Part II evaluates the effectiveness of the BAPCPA by measuring bankruptcy filing rates pre- and post-enactment and examines the losses disclosed by some of the largest credit lenders who lobbied for the bill. Part III discusses the legal challenges to BAPCPA that have already appeared in federal court. Part IV explains some of the more heavily-criticized shortcomings of the BAPCPA. This comment concludes with a brief discussion of the root causes of bankruptcy that remain unaffected by the passage of the BAPCPA.

Recommended Citation

Robert Slimak, Checking up with BARF:Evaluating the effectiveness, challenges and shortcomings of theBankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005., 11 Rich. J. L. & Pub. Int. 85 (2007).
Available at: https://scholarship.richmond.edu/pilr/vol11/iss1/4