Publications by Professor Gross

Professor Karen Gross
Publications

 BOOKS
 
Failure and Forgiveness: Rebalancing the Bankruptcy System. Yale University Press, 1997. (Paperback edition, Yale University Press, 1999).
 
 CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
 
“Integrating Legal Research Skills into Substantive Courses: Using Commercial Law as an Exemplar,” Contribution to Chapter 14 in Teaching the Law School Curriculum at 362–364 (S.I. Friedland and G.F. Hess, eds., Carolina Academic Press, 2004) (with C. Broussard).
 
“Establishing Financial Literacy Programmes for Consumer Debtors: Complex Issues on the Platter,” Chapter 17 in Consumer Bankruptcy in Global Perspective at 343–360 (I. Ramsay, J. Niemi-Kiesilainen & W. C. Whitford, eds., Oxford: Hart, 2003).
 
“Pre-bankruptcy Counseling and Post-filing Debtor Education,” Chapter 111 in Collier on Bankruptcy, 15 ed. Rev. (L.P. King, ed., Matthew Bender, 2005).
 
Involuntary Cases, Chapter 303 in Collier on Bankruptcy. 15th ed. Rev., Volume 2, at 303-1–303-110 (L.P. King, ed., Matthew Bender, 1997) (Quarterly Supplements, 1997–2006).
 
“Chapter 13 Cases,” Part XV in Ginsberg & Martin on Bankruptcy. 4th ed., Volume 2, at 15-1 to 15-106 (R.E. Ginsberg & R.D. Martin, eds., Aspen Law & Business, 1996) Rev. ed. of Bankruptcy: Text Statutes and Rules. 3rd ed. (with E. Bloom) (Annual Supplements, 1997, 1998).
 
“Good Faith: A Roundtable Discussion,” Chapter II in Single Asset Real Estate Bankruptcies: Current Developments and Legislative Issues at 13-58. (American Bankruptcy Institute & St. John’s University School of Law, compilers, American Bar Association, 1997) (with Hon. L. Fenning, Hon. W. Greendyke, Hon. D. Hillman and Hon. R. Mark).
 
“Chapter 13 Cases,” Part XV in Bankruptcy: Text Statutes and Rules. 3rd ed. at 15-1 to 15-126 (R E. Ginsberg & R.D. Martin eds., Prentice Hall Law & Business, 1992) (with E. Jacobson) (Annual Supplements, 1993–1995).
 
“Chapter 13 Cases,” Part XV in Bankruptcy: Text Statutes and Rules. 2nd ed. at 1333–1436.12 (R E. Ginsberg, ed., Prentice Hall Law & Business, 1989) (Annual Supplements, 1990–1991).
 
LAW REVIEW AND OTHER SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS
“Consumer Credit Card Use: The Roles of Creditor Disclosure and Anticipated Emotion,” Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied (with Richard Wiener, Susan Block-Lieb et al) (forthcoming 2007).
 
“Psychology and BAPCPA: Enhanced Disclosure and Emotion” (Symposium: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Bankruptcy Reform), 71 University of Missouri Law Review 1003-1033 (2006) (with Richard Wiener, Susan Block-Lieb et al).
 
“Legislative Messaging and Bankruptcy Law,” 67 University of Pittsburgh Law Review 497 (2006) (with Lois Lupica).
 
Commentary, “Give Credit Where Credit Is Due—The Use of Credit Scoring,” Consumer Finance Law Quarterly (Winter 2005).
 
“Empty Mandate or Opportunity for Innovation? Prepetition Credit Counseling and Post-Petition Financial Management Education,” 13 American Bankruptcy Institute Law Review 549–567 (2005) (with S. Block-Lieb).
 
“Student Indebtedness: What Educational Institutions Can and Should Do About It,” (coauthor), National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA) Leadership Exchange Magazine (Winter 2005).
 
“Multiple-Measure Evaluation of Financial Literacy Teacher Training,” 16 Financial Counseling and Planning Journal 63–75 (December 2005) (with S. Block-Leib, C. Baron-Donovan & R.L. Wiener).
 
"Strong Palliative, But Not a Panacea: Results of an Experiment Teaching Students About Financial Literacy," 35 Journal of Student Financial Aid (2005) (with J. Ingham & R. Matasar).
“Addressing Education’s Many Stakeholders,” University Business (September 2005) (with Pamela Godwin).
 
“Unwrapping Assumptions: Applying Social Analytic Jurisprudence to Consumer Bankruptcy Education Requirements and Policy,” 79 American Bankruptcy Law Journal 453–483 (2005) (with S. Block-Lieb, C. Baron-Donovan & R.L. Wiener).
 
“Debtor Education, Financial Literacy, and Pending Bankruptcy Legislation,” 23 Behavioral Sciences and the Law 347–366 (2005) (with S. Block-Lieb, C. Baron-Donovan & R.L. Wiener).
 
“Financial Literacy Education: Panacea, Palliative, or Something Worse?” 24 St. Louis University Public Law Review 307–312 (2005).
 
“Process Reengineering and Legal Education: An Essay on Daring to Think Differently” (New York Law School Faculty Presentation Day II),” 49 New York Law School Law Review 435–463 (2004–2005).
 
“The Coalition for Consumer Bankruptcy Debtor Education: A Report on Its Pilot Program,” 21 Bankruptcy Developments Journal 233–258 (2004) (with S. Block-Lieb, C. Baron-Donovan & R.L. Wiener).
 
“A Response to J.J. White’s ‘Death and Resurrection of Secured Credit: Finding Some Trees but Missing the Forest,’” (A Symposium on the Code After 25 Years: 1978–2003), 12 American Bankruptcy Institute Law Review 203–218 (2004).
 
“High and Low SES Debtors: The Use of Psychological Measures to Determine Differences,” (Building Assets, Building Credit: A Symposium on Improving Financial Services in Low-Income Communities), Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing, 2004 (with S. Block-Leib, C. Baron-Donovan, & R.L. Wiener) < http://www.jchs.harvard.edu/publications/finance/babc/babc_04-2.pdf/ >.
 
“Lessons from the Trenches: Debtor Education in Theory and Practice,” 7 Fordham Journal of Corporate and Financial Law 503–524 (2002) (with S. Block-Lieb & R.L. Wiener).
 
“Portraits of Grief: A Focus on Survivors” (Special Issue: Reflecting on the Legal Issues of Our Times. New York Law School Faculty Presentation Day), 46 New York Law School Law Review 631–652 (2002–2003).
 
Foreword: “A Time for Remembering,” (Association of American Law Schools Symposium). 75 American Bankruptcy Law Journal 279–281 (2001).
 
Book Review of The Ethics of Bankruptcy, by Jukka Kilpi, 26 Journal of Law & Society 555–560 (1999).
 
“Demonizing Debtors: A Response to the Honsberger-Ziegel Debate,” 37 Osgoode Hall Law Journal 263–275 (1999).
 
“On the Merits: A Response to Professors Girth and White,” 73 American Bankruptcy Law Journal 485–498 (1999).
 
“As We Fleece Our Debtors,” 102 Dickinson Law Review 747–762 (1998).
 
“Bankruptcy Solutions in the United States: An Overview,” The Sixth Annual Ernst C. Stiefel Symposium, 17 New York Law School Journal of International and Comparative Law 215–249 (1997) (with M.S. Barr).
 
Foreword, “The Sixth Annual Ernst C. Stiefel Symposium,” 17 New York Law School Journal of International and Comparative Law (1997) (with A.G. Estreicher).
 
“Perceptions and Misperceptions of Reaffirmation Agreements,” 102 Commercial Law Journal 339–354 (1997).
 
“Ladies in Red: Learning From America’s First Female Bankrupts,” 40 The American Journal of Legal History 1–40 (1996) (with M.S. Newman & D. Campbell).
 
“In Defense of Debtor Exclusivity: Assessing Four of the 1994 Amendments to the Bankruptcy Code” (Symposium on the 1994 Amendments), 69 American Bankruptcy Law Journal 287–310 (1995) (with P. Redmond).
 
“In Forma Pauperis in Bankruptcy: Reflecting On and Beyond United States v. Kras,” 2 American Bankruptcy Institute Law Review 57–71 (1994) (with S. Rosenberg).
 
“Taking Community Interests Into Account in Bankruptcy: An Essay,” (The Washington University Interdisciplinary Conference on Bankruptcy and Insolvency Theory). 72 Washington University Law Quarterly 1031–1049 (1994).
 
“Good Faith in Single Asset Chapter 11 Cases: A Roundtable Discussion,” 1 American Bankruptcy Institute Law Review 11–42 (1993) (with Hon. L. Fenning, Hon. W. Greendyke, Hon. D. Hillman & Hon. R. Mark).
 
“Justice Thurgood Marshall’s Bankruptcy Jurisprudence: A Tribute,” 67 American Bankruptcy Law Journal 447–478 (1993).
 
“The Debtor as Modern Day Peon: A Problem of Unconstitutional Conditions,” 65 Notre Dame Law Review 165–205 (1990).
 
Foreword: “She’s My Lawyer and She’s a Woman” (Symposium: Women in the Lawyering Workplace: Feminist Considerations and Practical Solutions), 35 New York Law School Law Review 293–307 (1990).
 
“Re-Vision of the Bankruptcy System: New Images of Individual Debtors,” (A review of Teresa A. Sullivan’s, Elizabeth Warren’s and Jay Lawrence’s Westbrook’s “As We Forgive Our Debtors: Bankruptcy and Consumer Credit in America”). 88 Michigan Law Review 1506–1556 (1990).
 
“Preserving a Fresh Start for the Individual Debtor: The Case for Narrow Construction of the Consumer Credit Amendments,” 135 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 59–152 (1986).
 
“Museums in the Commercial Marketplace: The Need for Licensing Agreements,” 10 Connecticut Law Review 620–637 (1978) (with S. Hodes).
 
“An Overview of the Bankruptcy Code,” 84 Commercial Law Journal 259–265 (August/September 1979).
 
NEWSPAPER ARTICLES, PRACTICE MATERIALS, AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS
 
Columnist, “Money Sense,” for the Westchester County Business Journal (2006).
 
"Making Inauguration Meaningful," Inside Higher Ed., November 7, 2006.
Columnist, Fairfield County Business Journal (2006).
 
“Jennifer Aniston, Money and Me,” Inside Higher Ed (June 2006).
 
“Education’s Many Stakeholders,” University Business (September 2005) (with Pamela Godwin).
 
“A New Approach to Saving Small Colleges,” The Chronicle of Higher Education (July 2005).
 
“What’s in Your Wallet and Why Does It Matter?” CLEO EDGE Magazine, The Council of Legal Education Opportunity (2005).
 
“Learning Money’s Language," University Business, (Viewpoint) March 2005 at 13-14.
 
Op-Ed, “Who’s Cheering the Raising of Interest Rates?” Chicago Tribune (August 2004).
 
“For Student-Loan Borrowers, Good Credit Where It’s Due,” The Chronicle of Higher Education (December 3, 2004) at B6.
 
Contributing Author, Collier on Bankruptcy, 15th ed. Rev. (L.P. King, ed., Matthew Bender, 1997–).
 
Essay in “Eight Blocks Away: Memoirs of September 11, 2001,” at 30–32 (New York Law School, 2002).
 
Book Reviews of Holistic Bankruptcy, by Greta Schneider; and Navigating Failure, by Edward J. Balleisen. 229 New York Law Journal 2 (December 4, 2001).
 
“Debtor Education: Making Sure a Good Idea Does Not Go Awry,” Norton Bankruptcy Law Adviser, January 2000, at 6–10 (with S. Block-Lieb).
 
“Making Sense of Cents: Concrete Ways to Improve Financial Literacy Skills,” (Symposium: Predatory Lending), 54 Consumer Finance Law Quarterly Report 233–235 (Summer 2000).
 
“Perspectives on Consumer Bankruptcy Law,” in Proceedings of the International Conference on Consumer Over-Indebtedness. Coimbra, Portugal, 1999. Reprinted in Notas Economicus ubs, Fall 2000, at 150–157.
 
“Tributes.” Entry in Techniques for Teaching Law, at 354–355 (G.F. Hess & S. Friedland, eds.) Carolina Academic Press, 1999.
 
“Editing on an Overhead Projector,” Entry in Techniques for Teaching Law, at 232–233 (G.F. Hess & S. Friedland, eds.) Carolina Academic Press, 1999.
 
“Family Day,” Entry in Techniques for Teaching Law, at 327–329 (G.F. Hess & S. Friedland, eds.) Carolina Academic Press, 1999.
 
“Fine Art Imagery,” Entry in Techniques for Teaching Law, at 91–93 (G.F. Hess & S. Friedland, eds.) Carolina Academic Press, 1999.
 
Panelist, “Colloquium: Consumer Bankruptcy,” 67 Fordham Law Review 1315–1368 (1999).
 
“Tumbling from the Ivory Tower: One Law Professor’s Experiences at Legal Aid,” 17 In Brief 20 (Spring/Summer 1999).
 
Op Ed, “Help Debtors Before They Go Over the Edge,” Los Angeles Times, at B7 (April 22, 1998) (with T. Hira).
 
“Debtor Education Matters: Both Prospective and Current Creditors Will Be Helped by Productive, Informed Consumers in the Credit Marketplace,” 218 New York Law Journal 8 (September 29, 1997).
 
“Memorial to Dr. Ernst C. Stiefel (The Sixth Annual Ernst C. Stiefel Symposium),” 17 New York Law School Journal of International and Comparative Law (1997) (with A.G. Estreicher).
 
“Preliminary Proposal on Debtor Education Program Options,” 51 Consumer Finance Law Quarterly Report 23–26 (1997).
 
“Thinking About Bankruptcy,” 15 In Brief 10–11 (Fall/Winter 1996).
 
“Suggestions for the National Bankruptcy Review Commission and Congress: Expert Panels,” 4 American Bankruptcy Institute Law Review 487, 521–522 (1996).
 
“Selected Bibliography on Ethics for Bankruptcy Professionals: Attorneys, Judges, Trustees & Committees,” 49 Record of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York 657–676 (1994) (with J.M. Weisneck). Reprinted in 68 American Bankruptcy Law Journal 419–436 (1994).
 
“Some Preliminary Findings on Women in Bankruptcy Law Practice,” 67th Proceedings of National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges 8:5–33 (1993).
 
“Perception and Reality: American Bankruptcy Institute Survey on Selected Provisions of the 1984 Amendments to the Bankruptcy Code,” (American Bankruptcy Institute, July 1987) (with G.C. Paine & C.M. Tatelbaum).
 
“The New Copyright Law and the Art Community,” 2 National Arts Guide 23 (May/June 1980).