Thomas E. Plank
Joel A. Katz Distinguished Professor of Law
A.B., 1968, Princeton University
J.D., 1974, University of Maryland
Thomas Plank
Publications
Regulation and Reform of the Mortgage Market and the Nature of Mortgage Loans: Lessons from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, 60 So. Car. L. Rev. 779 (2009), part of a Symposium, “1.9 Kids and a Foreclosure: Subprime Mortgages, the Credit Crisis, and Restoring the American Dream.”
Sense and Sensibility in Securitization: A Prudent Legal Structure and a Fanciful Critique, 30 Cardozo L. Rev. 617 (2008), responding to Kenneth Kettering’s fanciful criticism of securitization in Securitization and Its Discontents: The Dynamics of Financial Product Development 29 Cardozo L. Rev. 1553 (2008).
Toward a More Efficient Bankruptcy Law: Mortgage Financing Under the 2005 Bankruptcy Amendments, 31 S. Ill. U. L.J. 641 (2007) (part of the Symposium on Shredding the Safety Net: A Critical Examination of the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005) (solicited article).
State Sovereignty in Bankruptcy after Katz, 15 Amer. Bankr. Inst. L. Rev. 59 (2007) (part of the Symposium on Federalism and Bankruptcy).
Assignment of Receivables Under Article 9: Structural Incoherence and Wasteful Filing, 68 Ohio St. L.J. 231-271 (2007) (part of symposium on Commercial Calamities).
The Key to Securitization: Isolating the Assets to Be Securitized from the Risk of An Insolvency Proceeding, in John Arnholz and Edward E. Gainor, eds., Offerings of Asset Backed Securities (2005, plus annual updates).
The Security of Securitization and the Future of Security, 25 Cardozo L. Rev. 1655-1741 (2004) (part of the Symposium on Threats to Secured Lending and Asset Securitization).
The Erie Doctrine and Bankruptcy, 79 Notre Dame L. Rev. 633-92 (2004), reprinted in 13 J. Bankr. L. & Prac. 55-113 (2004).
Bankruptcy and Federalism, 71 Fordham L. Rev. 1063-1131 (2002).
Bankruptcy Professionals, Debtor Dominance and the Future of Bankruptcy: A Review and a Rhapsody on a Theme, 18 Bankr. Dev. J. 337-71 (2002) (reviewing David A. Skeel, Jr., Debt Dominion: A History of Bankruptcy Law in America (2001)).
The Limited Security Interest in Non-Assignable Collateral Under Revised Article 9, 9 A.B.I. L. Rev. 323-49 (2001).
The Bankruptcy Trust as a Legal Person, 35 Wake Forest L. Rev. 251-293 (2000).
The Creditor in Possession Under the Bankruptcy Code: History, Text, and Policy, 59 Md L. Rev. 253-351 (2000).
Why Bankruptcy Judges Need Not and Should Not Be Article III Judges, 72 Am. Bankr. L.J. 567-639 (1998).
The Outer Boundaries of the Bankruptcy Estate, 47 Emory L. J. 1193-1287 (1998).
The Essential Elements of Judicial Independence and the Experience of Pre-Soviet Russia, 5 Wm. & Mary Bill of Rights J. 1-74 (1996).
Peter M. Pantaleo, et. al, Rethinking the Role of Recourse in the Sale of Financial Assets, 52 Bus. Law. 159-98 (1996) (one of ten co-authors).
The Constitutional Limits of Bankruptcy, 63 Tenn. L. Rev. 487-584 (1996).
Sacred Cows and Workhorses: The Sale of Accounts and Chattel Paper Under Article 9 of the U.C.C. and the Effects of Violating a Fundamental Drafting Principle, 26 Conn. L. Rev. 397-520 (1994).
When a Sale of Accounts Is Not a Sale: A Critique of Octagon Gas, 48 Consumer Fin. L. Q. Rep. 45-53 (1994).
The True Sale of Loans and the Role of Recourse, 14 George Mason U. L. Rev. 287-359 (1991).