University of Minnesota Law School Scholarship Repository Minnesota Law Review 1973 The ewN Bankruptcy Rules: Relices of the Past as Fixtures of the Future Jonathan M. Landers Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarship.law.umn.edu/mlr Part of the Law Commons Recommended Citation Landers, Jonathan M., "The eN w Bankruptcy Rules: Relices of the Past as Fixtures of the Future" (1973). Minnesota Law Review. 1685. https://scholarship.law.umn.edu/mlr/1685 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the University of Minnesota Law School. It has been accepted for inclusion in Minnesota Law Review collection by an authorized administrator of the Scholarship Repository. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. The New Bankruptcy Rules: Relics of the Past as Fixtures of the Future By Jonathan M. Landers* Change is coming to bankruptcy-land. For a normally lack- luster subject area, developments in these first years of the dec- ade of the 70's have been startling. In March of 1971, the Ad- visory Committee on Bankruptcy Rules published a draft of pro- posed rules with a promise of additional rules for the Chapter proceedings;' that promise has already been partially fulfilled with publication of rules for Chapter XIII, Chapter XI, and Chapter X cases in September 1971, October 1972, and December 1972 respectively.2 And in late 1971, the prestigious Brookings Institution published its long awaited study (or more properly, indictment) of the bankruptcy system. The Brookings conclu- sion was harsh and blunt: This assembly of administrative and fiscal error and confu- sion has become an accepted way of professional life for the per- sonnel of the bankruptcy courts, their supervisors, the district court judges, and members of the bankruptcy bar.