1. The culture of bankruptcy; 2. Cross-border insolvency law: where private international law and insolvency law meet; 3. The law and economics of corporate insolvency: some thoughts; 4. The commencement of the company rescue : how and when does it start?; 5. A comparative analysis of the administration regimes in Australia and the United Kingdom; 6. Consuming passions: benchmarking consumer bankruptcy law systems; 7. Coming to terms with the COMI concept in the European insolvency regulation; 8. The dominance of main insolvency proceedings under the European insolvency regulation; 9. Bank insolvency and the problem of non-performing loans; 10. In re: spectrum plus: less of a bang than a whimper?; 11. A plea for the development of coherent labour and insolvency principles on a regional basis in SADC countries; 12. Widening the insolvency lens : the treatment of employee claims; 13. The claim against an insolvent for environmental damage; 14. Reducing collateral damage in franchisor insolvency.