- Collection:
- Scholarly Works
- Title:
- Fines, Fees, and Filing Bankruptcy
- Creator:
- Foohey, Pamela
- Date of Original:
- 2020-01-01
- Subject:
- Law--History
Law--Study and teaching
Constitutional law
International law
Criminal law - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Clarke County, Athens, 33.96095, -83.37794
- Medium:
- articles
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Previously posted on SSRN. (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3536439)
criminal fine -- criminal fee -- civil fine -- civil fee -- court debt -- bankruptcy -- discharge -- chapter 7 -- chapter 13 -- consumer -- access to justice -- access to courts -- economic class -- social class -- race -- ethnicity -- Bankruptcy Law -- Courts
This essay was written in conjunction with the “Court Debt”: Fines, Fees, and Bail, Circa 2020 symposium held during the Association of American Law Schools' 2019 annual meeting. The essay details the extent to which "court debt" -- civil and criminal fines, fees, and interest -- can be dealt with by filing bankruptcy. In short, although filing bankruptcy on balance may help people deal with court debt and other debts, the barriers that people face to filing raise questions about the accessibility of civil courts and suggest that the consumer bankruptcy system itself is yet another place in which race (and to a lesser extent, economic class) matters in accessing the law’s benefits. - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/fac_artchop/1648
- Holding Institution:
- Alexander Campbell King Law Library
- Rights:
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