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Lawfirm.com asked a panel of experts to weigh in on how to navigate bankruptcy. Rutgers Law Professor Chrystin Ondersma, author of Dignity, Not Debt: An Abolitionist Approach to Economic Justice, shared her perspective on some of the most pressing bankruptcy questions.
Rutgers Law Professor Chrystin Ondersma reimagines household debt that opens a new path to financial security for all Americans in her new book Dignity Not Debt: An Abolitionist Approach to Economic Justice. Weaving together the histories and trends of U.S. debt policy with her own family story, she debunks the myths that have long governed debt policy, like the belief that debt leads to prosperity or the claim that bad debt is the result of bad choices. Find out how Professor Ondersma's book could revolutionize how policymakers think about debt, thereby changing the legal landscape, in this Q&A by the publisher, University of California Press.
On Sunday, the 2024 entertainment awards season will culminate with the live broadcast of the 2024 Academy Awards. Each year, millions of television viewers tune in to the Oscars, Grammys, Emmys, Tonys, and Golden Globes for a taste of Hollywood’s glitz and glamor. That global fascination is the subject of a new Rutgers study, which examines the cottage industry of entertainment awards and explains how the law plays a pivotal role in nearly every aspect of show business’s most glamorous microeconomy.