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  • New book details the precarious financial lives of US bankruptcy filers

    Aug 19, 2025 3:30 pm by Phil CicioraInsights
    Robert M. Lawless, the Max L. Rowe Professor of Law and co-director of the Illinois Program on Law, Behavior and Social Science at Illinois.

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    'Debt’s Grip: Risk and Consumer Bankruptcy' shows 'what it means to live in a state of financial precarity, where household finances are fragile, and where one small expense can blow up everything,' said author and law professor Robert Lawless.  

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