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Pamela Foohey

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Pamela Foohey

Associate Professor of Law


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Bankruptcy Courts Ill-prepared for Tsunami of People Going Broke From Coronavirus Shutdown (with Paige Marta Skiba, Dalié Jiménez, Michelle McKinnon Miller, and Sara Sternberg Greene) (May 13, 2020).

By Filing for Bankruptcy, the Boy Scouts May Compensate More Survivors of Sexual Abuse (Feb. 24, 2020).

How Bankruptcy can Help USA Gymnastics and the Boy Scouts Compensate More Survivors (Feb. 8, 2019).

Credit Slips -- Credit Slips: A Discussion on Credit, Finance, and Bankruptcy is a blog of fourteen academics who discuss and debate issues related to credit, bankruptcy, consumers, and financial institutions.

Dissecting the Increase in Chapter 11 Filings (Jan. 15, 2021).

74 Law Professors Sign Letter in Support of the Consumer Bankruptcy Reform Act (Dec. 14, 2020).

Update on Churches Filing Chapter 11 Bankruptcy (Nov. 4, 2020).

Taub's New Book on White Collar Crime (and its connection to bankruptcy) (Oct. 15, 2020).

Bankruptcy, Credit, and Finance Panels at Upcoming AALS Meeting (Sept. 11, 2020).

The Resurgence of Calls for Financial Literacy (Apr. 30, 2020).

Save the Date: 3rd Annual Consumer Law Scholars Conference (Apr. 21, 2020).

Coronavirus Will Hasten the Shift to App-Based Banking and Lending. How Will That Affect People's Pocketbooks? (Apr. 14, 2020).

Treasury Must Act Now to Protect Relief Payments from Debt Collectors (Apr. 8, 2020).

Boy Scouts is on a Path to Upset Survivors. It Doesn't Have to Be. (Feb. 22, 2020).

The Boy Scouts of America Filed Chapter 11 ... in Delaware??? (Feb. 19, 2020).

Consumer Bankruptcy, Done Correctly, To Help Struggling Americans (Jan. 7, 2020).

Supreme Court Grants Cert to Decide Fate of Repossessed Cars in Bankruptcy (Dec. 19, 2019).

There's Still Time to Register for NCBJ 2019 (Sept. 19, 2019).

Driven to Bankruptcy -- New Research from the Consumer Bankruptcy Project (Sept. 16, 2019).

Ditech, Reverse Mortgages, Consumer Concerns, and Section 363 (o) (Aug. 30, 2019).

Counting Healthcare Chapter 11 Filings: Are There More Than Expected? (with Kelsey Brandes) (May 23, 2019).

Liked Evicted? -- Read Maid (Feb. 5, 2019).

Procedural Justice and Corporate Reorganization (Dec. 11, 2018).

Update on Catholic Dioceses's Chapter 11 Filings, Fall 2018 Edition (Nov. 19, 2018).

New Consumer Law Conference -- Call for Papers (Sept. 6, 2018).

Pets and Financial Distress (Aug. 24, 2018).

Older Americans' Rising Bankruptcy Filings (Aug. 6, 2018).

Access to Justice, Consumer Bankruptcy Edition (June 26, 2018).

More on "Undue Hardship" and Student Loans in Bankruptcy (May 25, 2018).

Tax Reform and Nonprofit Bankruptcy (Apr. 17, 2018).

Education Department Request for Information on Student Loan Discharge in Bankruptcy (Feb. 28, 2018).

People's Pre-Bankruptcy Struggles -- New Paper from the Consumer Bankruptcy Project (Feb. 20, 2018).

Other (Non-Religious) Non-Profit Organizations Also File Bankruptcy (Feb. 16, 2018).

Churches Are Still Filing Bankruptcy (Feb. 15, 2018).

Lularoe, Other Multi-Level Marketing Companies, and Bankruptcy Filings (Nov. 11, 2017).

Lessons for the #BankBlack Movement from Mehrsa Baradaran's New Book (Oct. 2, 2017).

More on Personal Debt and Multilevel Marketing Companies (Aug. 8, 2017).

Taking Online Dispute Resolution to the Next Level (May 26, 2017).

New Report on Car Insurance Redlining (Apr. 7, 2017).

New Article from the Consumer Bankruptcy Project: Attorneys' Fees and Chapter Choice (Mar. 6, 2017).

Two Books About Selling Math and Its Consequences for Inequality (Feb. 20, 2017).

Scarcity, Money, and Undocumented Immigrants (Jan. 16, 2017).

How Consumers Use the CFPB's Complaint Function (Dec. 12, 2016).

Linking Pyramid Schemes (aka Multilevel Marketing Companies) and Consumer Bankruptcy (Nov. 21, 2016).

CFPB Consumer Complaint Narratives: What They Say About Bankruptcy (Sept. 6, 2016).

The Financial Lives of Undocumented Immigrants (Feb. 25, 2016).

Initial Attorney Reactions to the New Bankruptcy Forms (Dec. 4, 2015).

Longest Running Catholic Archdiocese Chapter 11 Case Finally Ends (Nov. 10, 2015).

It Is Very Expensive to Be Poor (Sept. 4, 2015).

Advertising and Payday and Title Lending: How Do Lenders Target Borrowers? (Sept. 13, 2015).

Notifying Potential Claimants in Diocese Chapter 11 Cases (June 30, 2015).

Searching CFPB Consumer Narratives (June 26, 2015).

Postpetition Wages Held by Chapter 13 Trustee Belong to Debtor Upon Conversion (May 18, 2015).

That New Song About Bills (May 8, 2015).

Secured Credit, Churches, and Reorganization (Apr. 20, 2015).

Auto Title Loans: Like Payday Loans, But Larger and Riskier (Mar. 25, 2015).

Archdiocese's Potential Fraudulent Transfer Not Protected by RFRA, First Amendment (Mar. 9, 2015).

Churches as an Alternative to Payday Lenders (Jan. 12, 2015).

Bankruptcy Attorney Advertising in the Digital Age (Jan. 1, 2015).

Prepaid Card Use on the Rise Among Unbanked and Underbanked (Nov. 6, 2014).

Online Payday Loans Cost More Than Storefront Payday Loans and Customers Are Harassed More Egregiously (Oct. 4, 2014).

Now Might Be the Time for the Longest Pending Catholic Diocese Chapter 11 Case to Settle (Sept. 7, 2014). 

Lessons From Postal Banking's Past (Aug. 18, 2014).

Small-Dollar Loans to Servicemembers, the Electronics Version (or an Easy Way to Get Around the Military Lending Act) (July 30, 2014).

Do Debtors or Creditors Get Undisbursed Chapter 13 Plan Payments Upon Conversion? -- A New Circuit Split (July 11, 2014).

What's Behind All the Credit Card Debt Discharged through Bankruptcy? (May 9, 2014).

I Am Approved for a Payday Loan (May 2, 2014).

Just Punch My Bankruptcy Ticket (Apr. 18, 2014).

New Data and Thoughts on Payday and Other Alternative Lending (Mar. 27, 2014).

Attorneys' Advice on Representing Religious Organizations in Chapter 11 (Feb. 28, 2014).

Health Care Reform and Household Financial Stability (Feb. 4, 2014).

Are Churches Slowly Recovering? (Jan. 25, 2014).

My Consumer Tips -- Created by Amy J. Schmitz (Univ. of Missouri School of Law), My Consumer Tips is part of a larger non-profit project that aims to provide helpful and independent consumer information.

Filing Bankruptcy? Make Sure You Double-Check Debt Collectors' Submitted Claims (May 16, 2017).

More Evidence That Americans Want Payday Loans Regulated, and in Certain Ways (Apr. 24, 2017).

Can You Believe That Free Credit Score? (Apr. 19, 2017).

Getting Car Insurance? Your Zip Code Matters (Apr. 9, 2017).