The Glannon Guide to Bankruptcy: Guide to Bankruptcy (Glannon Guides) [Paperback]

Professor Nathalie Martin (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0735565279 | ISBN-13: 978-0735565272 | Publication Date: December 18, 2006 | Edition: 2

Utilizing a user-friendly and interactive approach, THE GLANNON GUIDE TO BANKRUPTCY: Learning Bankruptcy Through Multiple-Choice Questions and Analysis offers students a concise, clear, and fair method of exam review. By integrating multiple-choice questions into a full-fledged review of bankruptcy topics, the book challenges students and reinforces their understanding and application of what they have learned.<p class=copymedium> Valuable features make it equally useful to all students ¿ regardless of whether they will be tested with multiple-choice questions on their exams:<p class=copymedium> <li class=copymedium>lead-up discussion of law in the text prepares students to learn effectively from subsequent questions <li class=copymedium>clear explanations of correct and incorrect answers help to clarify nuances in the law <li class=copymedium>multiple-choice questions are sophisticated but fair, neither too difficult nor unrealistically straightforward <li class=copymedium>the ¿Closer,¿ a more challenging final question in each chapter, illustrates a more sophisticated problem in the area under discussion <li class=copymedium>¿Closing Closer¿ questions in the last chapter provide practice and helpful review of concepts in earlier chapters <li class=copymedium>useful exam-taking pointers interspersed, where applicable, within the surrounding text</ul>

Product Details

• Paperback: 480 pages
• Publisher: Aspen Pub; 2 edition (December 18, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0735565279
• ISBN-13: 978-0735565272
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 7.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #411,602 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #66 in Books > Law > Business > Bankruptcy

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good, but Needs Work, December 5, 2009

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Barney Ross "barney0361" (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Glannon Guide to Bankruptcy: Guide to Bankruptcy (Glannon Guides) (Paperback)

The consensus seems to be that this is better than the E&E competitor. I can't comment on that, because this is the only guide I bought.

Better or not, though, it needs improvement.

There are a surprising number of typos for a second edition*, including numbers in the examples that conflict with those used in the explanatory text, but its problems only start there.

It's badly organized. It seems like it was set up to reflect the progression of a very specific class. Issues aren't dealt with in one place exhaustively, but touched on in several. If you're using the book for end of semester review, or as a reference, this is frustrating because you can't just turn to one place for a complete answer.

Explanations of bankruptcy concepts are necessarily tricky sometimes, but I'm not sure that excuses chestnuts like this one on page 239: "One aspect of feasibility is quite stringent, namely that the payments proposed under the plan must actually add up to enough money to make the payments proposed in the plan." You can read that as many times as you like, but it'll still be as assertion that X=X under the bankruptcy code.

The book's most serious failings, though, is that it was clearly revised in a hurry to incorporate the 2005 Amendments. The speculative analysis of how the law was likely to develop after those changes was probably helpful in 2006, a year before this was published, but the rest of us would have been well served by an equally hurried effort to get a third edition out to encapsulate the actual case law. The cover's promise that the book's been "revised for the 2005 amendments" is misleading in 2009, when students should reasonably expect better than four year old speculations.

I'm giving it three stars because the bar for law school study aids is really low. This could actually be the best one on the topic.


* I appreciate that any review criticizing typos is sure to have at least six of them in it, so feel free to count

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Better than Examples and Explanations, May 2, 2009

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K. A. B. - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Glannon Guide to Bankruptcy: Guide to Bankruptcy (Glannon Guides) (Paperback)

This is one of the few legal supplements/guides out there that has the 2005 code updates in it. Thank goodness it's out there.

The Glannon Guide to Bankruptcy lays it out fairly simply. It broke everything down into easy 10-15 page chapters, used charts, and had mini quizzes at the end of every chapter, with an analysis of the correct and wrong answers. I just found it much more user friendly. I also found the explanations to be much, much clearer. Maybe I'm just bankruptcy-challenged, but I loved this guide and it really helped with my final exam.

I tried the Examples and Explanations guide to Bankruptcy at the same time I got this one -- what a waste of money, with regard to the E&E. I like my supplements to be clear and easy to read. The E&E is more for people who want something in the beginning of the semester, and want to have an extra bit of reading and analysis with their reading. Just not my thing.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Worst Outline I've Ever Purchased, August 4, 2010

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SeattleYanksFan (Seattle, WA, US) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The Glannon Guide to Bankruptcy: Guide to Bankruptcy (Glannon Guides) (Paperback)

I never relied on commercial outlines in law school, but I did use my share during my three years to help study for finals. This outline was easily the worst... by far. It was so bad I sent it back to Amazon after a first read. The Bankruptcy Nutshell is far, far superior.

First, the information in the book is lacking any depth and explanation of the concepts. It gives you no more of an explanation than you can find by searching Google. Indeed, an outline is supposed to condense lots of info and make it understandable, but this outline gives so little info you can't understand the material without already having a strong knowledge of the topic or supplementing it with another commercial outline.

Second, the problems were a joke. There were a few throughout the book, and they were so easy they hardly teach you anything (if anything they decrease your knowledge of bankruptcy). If these problems are indicative of what the professor who wrote this book considers law school level problems, then she needs to be fired. Law school exams should never be that easy.

I ended up with an A in my Bankruptcy class, but it was not a result of perusing this worthless book. Reading the textbook, making my own outline, and the Nutshell Bankruptcy book were the keys to my success.