Read “Corporate Restructuring, the Evolution of Corporate Assets and the Public Interest” for two reasons. First, some great pieces build on an expanded case comment model, as this one does. So, it’s a good illustration of a genre of scholarship. Here, the case is Century Services Inc, which was the first Supreme Court case to interpret the provisions of the Companies Creditors Arrangement Act. Second, read it because the area of law it explores, insolvency law, is fascinating and the CCAA traces its origins to the early 1930s. Subsequent courts have struggled to refine and in some ways redefine its object and function. Jassmine Girgis traces that history briefly and elegantly. The main thrust of the piece is to explore the public interest objectives of the CCAA, most specifically.

Jassmine Girgis finds her home at the University of Calgary’s faculty of law. She researches broadly across areas of corporate and commercial law.