Not available in 2024/25
LL4AJ Half Unit
Corporate Rescue and Reorganisation
This information is for the 2024/25 session.
Teacher responsible
Professor Sarah Paterson
Availability
This course is available on the LLM (extended part-time), LLM (full-time) and University of Pennsylvania Law School LLM Visiting Students. This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit.
This course has a limited number of places and demand is typically high. This may mean that you’re not able to get a place on this course.
Course content
This course focuses on the rescue of companies and the rescue of businesses in financial distress. We use Chapter 11 in the US as our jumping off point, before moving on to analyse the procedures which are available in England. We then consider the European Restructuring Directive, and we finish by setting everything we have studied against academic theories of the role of law in promoting rescue.
Teaching
This course will have two hours of teaching content each week in Autumn Term. There will be a Reading Week in Week 6 of Autumn Term.
Formative coursework
One 1,500 word essay.
Indicative reading
A full Reading List will be distributed during the course. For introductory purposes, students are referred to V. Finch and D. Milman, Corporate Insolvency Law: Perspectives and Principles (Cambridge University Press, 2017) (3rd edition).
Assessment
Exam (100%, duration: 2 hours, reading time: 15 minutes) in the spring exam period.
Key facts
Department: Law School
Total students 2023/24: 31
Average class size 2023/24: 31
Controlled access 2023/24: Yes
Value: Half Unit
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Personal development skills
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