Book Reviews Bankruptcy Handbook, Nathan Levy, Jr., Little, Brown and Company, 1991, 532 Pages $95.00 (softbound)

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Connecticut Bar Journal Volume 66.

66 CBJ 464. BOOK REVIEWS BANKRUPTCY HANDBOOK, Nathan Levy, Jr., Little, Brown and Company, 1991, 532 Pages $95.00 (softbound)

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BOOK REVIEWS BANKRUPTCY HANDBOOK, Nathan Levy, Jr., Little Brown and Company, 1991, 532 Pages $95.00 (softbound)

The author, who is a highly respected Professor of Law at the University of Connecticut School of Law, states that "The primary objective of this book is to facilitate the location of controlling statutes and to present them in a context that reveals their significance." It is essential that a bankruptcy attorney be able to determine which Sections not only interact with, but are impacted by, implicated in, or even similarly treated in other Sections.

Professor Nathan Levy, Jr.'s Bankruptcy Handbook restates in a complex format the already complex format of the Bankruptcy Code together with contemporaneous references to applicable Bankruptcy Rules, sections of the Uniform Commercial Code, Connecticut General Statutes, Congressional Acts, Supreme Court decisions on bankruptcy cases and other selected court decisions of precedential value. The outline is interspersed throughout with multiplicitous; cross-references to other sections in the outline as well as citations to Sections of the Bankruptcy Code in a way that is disturbing to the eye, not to mention boggling to the mind.

Clearly, an enormous amount of effort was expended by the author in constructing this overly elaborate and complex format.

The author's apologetic acknowledgment "for insisting upon certain stylistic idiosyncracies" is an extreme understatement of the inconvenience engendered by the author's choice of format. The outline and cross-referencing system is so awkward and difficult to follow that the usefulness of the text is almost completely destroyed.

For example, Chapter Il "The judicial Structure, Jurisdiction, Venue, and Related Matters" is divided into sections, and then into subsections and then into many sub-subsections, such as ...

Chap. II.M.6.b(l)(c):

"(c) transfers preserved under the 'preservation provisions'of BC, to wit, Section 510 (c) (2), at XIL CA.b.; Section 522(i) (2), at V111. M.; and Section 551, at IX D. Section 349 (b) (1) (B)."

This excerpt includes the acronym "BC", a non-standard abbreviation for Bankruptcy Code, rather than the proper citation form "11 U.S.C. 101, et seq." An overabundance of acronyms are defined in an...