Bringing the Rule of Law to a War-Torn Country

In practice, bankruptcy was nonexistent as a viable method of dealing with insolvency in Afghanistan. [...]Afghanistan needed a new bankruptcy law. [...]having no "corporate memory" of the work done in 2007, Deloitte reached out to another bankruptcy judge with experience in international...

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Published inAmerican Bankruptcy Institute journal Vol. 37; no. 8; pp. 22 - 78
Main Author Williamson, Michael G
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Alexandria American Bankruptcy Institute 01.08.2018
Subjects
Bankruptcy laws
Bar associations
Commercial law
Insolvency
Judges & magistrates
Rule of law
Azerbaijan
Afghanistan
United States > US
Russia
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Summary:In practice, bankruptcy was nonexistent as a viable method of dealing with insolvency in Afghanistan. [...]Afghanistan needed a new bankruptcy law. [...]having no "corporate memory" of the work done in 2007, Deloitte reached out to another bankruptcy judge with experience in international law development, Judge Chuck Case, for help in drafting a bankruptcy law for Afghanistan. [...]he had concerns about the security situation. "4 Judge Case then went back to Deloitte with a proposal for a two-person team, suggesting that I should be that second person since I was in the country and had met many stakeholders in the commercial arena in 2007. [...]I was asked to join him on a trip to Kabul in April 2010 to begin work on a project to help the Afghanistan government prepare a modern insolvency law for the country.
ISSN:1931-7522