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Wiggins, Mary Jo
Books
- Questions & Answers: Bankruptcy (2nd ed., Carolina Academic Press 2018)
Journal Articles
- Black Suburbanization: Potent Hope or Illusory Promise?, 109 Marquette Law Review 935 (2026)
- Supremacy Lost?: Zoning, Covenants, and the Evolution of Single-family Ownership, 128 Penn State Law Review 127 (2023)
- A Commentary in Bankruptcy Reform, San Diego Legal Studies Paper Series (2021)
- Four More Years? Looking Backward and Looking Forward Regarding the Great Recession and the Law, 39 Western State University Law Review 337 (2021)
- Access Anxiety, 54 Real Property Trust and Estate Law Journal 133 (2019)
- Tribute to the Special Issue on the 60th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, 52 San Diego Law Review 811 (2015)
- Conservative Economics and Optimal Consumer Bankruptcy Policy, 7 Theoretical Inquiries in Law 347 (2006)
- Finance and Factionalism: The Uneasy Present (and Future) of Special Interest Committees in Corporate Reorganization Law, 41 San Diego Law Review 1373 (2004)
- Race, Class, and Suburbia: The Modern Black Suburb as a Race-Making Situation, 35 University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform 749 (2002)
- Foreword: The Future of Intersectionality and Critical Race Feminism, 11 The Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues 677 (2001)
- A Statute of Disbelief?: Clashing Ethical Imperatives in Fraudulent Transfer Law, 48 South Carolina Law Review 771 (1997)
- Rethinking the Structure of Insolvency Law in South Africa, 17 New York Law School Journal of International and Comparative Law 509 (1997)
- Testing the Limits of Congressional Intent: Divorce Obligations in Bankruptcy after the 1994 Reform Act, 6 Journal of Bankruptcy Law and Practice (1997)
- Globalism, Parochialism, and Procedure: A Critical Assessment of Local Rulemaking in Bankruptcy Court, 46 South Carolina Law Review 1245 (1995)
- The New Rawlsian Theory of Bankruptcy Ethics, 16 Cardozo Law Review 111 (1994)
- Critical Race Theory and Classical Liberal Scholarship: A Distinction Without a Difference?, 82 California Law Review 787 (1994) (with Brooks)
- Undersecured Creditors in Bankruptcy: Dewsnup, Nobleman, and the Decline of Priority, 25 Arizona State Law Journal 547 (1993)
- The Precarious Plight of Corporate and Partnership Debtors under Section 362(h) of the Bankruptcy Code, San Diego Legal Studies Paper Series (1992)
- Book Note: A Review of Jennifer Hochschild's The New American Dilemma: Liberal Democracy and School Desegregation, 84 Michigan Law Review 990 (1986)
Chapters of Books or Articles within Books
- The Scholar, the Harmonizer, and the Institutionalist, in The Jurisprudential Legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg (New York University Press 2023)
- Assisted Person, in Collier on Bankruptcy (Alan Resnick & Henry Sommer eds., 16th ed., Lexis Nexis 2019)
- Bankruptcy Assistance, in Collier on Bankruptcy (Alan Resnick & Henry Sommer eds., 16th ed., Lexis Nexis 2019)
- Custodial Control of Estate Property, in Collier on Bankruptcy (Alan Resnick & Henry Sommer eds., 16th ed., Lexis Nexis 2019)
- Debt Relief Assistance, in Collier on Bankruptcy (Alan Resnick & Henry Sommer eds., 16th ed., Lexis Nexis 2019)
- Disclosures, in Collier on Bankruptcy (Alan Resnick & Henry Sommer eds., 16th ed., Lexis Nexis 2019)
- Requirements for Debt Relief Agencies, in Collier on Bankruptcy (Alan Resnick & Henry Sommer eds., 16th ed., Lexis Nexis 2019)
- Restrictions on Debt Relief Agencies, in Collier on Bankruptcy (Alan Resnick & Henry Sommer eds., 16th ed., Lexis Nexis 2019)
- Turnover of Estate Property, in Collier on Bankruptcy (Alan Resnick & Henry Sommer eds., 16th ed., Lexis Nexis 2019)
Other Print and Electronic Media
- Symposium: Four More Years? Looking Backward and Looking Forward Regarding the Great Recession and the Law: Transcript Highlights of Panelist Discussions, Vol. 39, Western State University Law Review (2012) (with Warkentine, Groshoff & Rosenberg)
- The 2005 Bankruptcy Reform Act Changes the Rules for Debt Relief Agencies, Assisted Persons, and Advertising, ABA Labor Law Journal (2007)
- Small Business Bankruptcies and Single Asset Real Estate Cases: Update and Analysis, Vol. 4, Business Law News (2006)