Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2018
Abstract
This Article is the first of its kind to argue that preference law is ineffective as a deterrent of collection behavior based on empirical evidence, drawn from interviews of actors within the field-debtors, creditors, and the attorneys who represented them in bankruptcy proceedings. This Article reports on interviews of sampled individuals who participated in successful 7 Chapter 11 reorganization cases involving preference actions. The overwhelming and indisputable conclusion from these interviews is that creditors may adjust their behavior in response to preference law, but not in ways that further the purported goal of preference deterrence. Accordingly, if preference law is a law of deterrence, it is wholly ineffectual in its purpose.
Recommended Citation
Brook E. Gotberg,
Optimal Deterrence and the Preference Gap, 2018 Brigham Young University Law Review 559
(2018).
Available at: https://scholarship.law.missouri.edu/facpubs/792