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Charles D. Booth |
Charles D. Booth
BA (History), summa cum laude, Yale University, 1981; JD, cum laude, Harvard Law School, 1984.
Professor Booth returned to the faculty in January 2006 after spending 16 1/2 years at the University of Hong Kong. After graduating from Harvard Law School, he was admitted to the New York Bar (1985) and the New Jersey Bar (1986) and practiced law on Wall Street (1984-86) before spending three years on the faculty at the University of Hawaii (1986-89). While at UH, Professor Booth taught Debtors' and Creditors' Rights, Remedies, Commercial Transactions, Negotiable Instruments, and Legal Method Seminar.
Professor Booth joined the Faculty of Law at the University of Hong Kong in August 1989. At HKU, he served as the Director of the Asian Institute of International Financial Law (AIIFL) from 2001-2005 and for a decade as a member of the Editorial Committee of the Hong Kong Law Journal. He was a member of the Hong Kong Inland Revenue Board of Review and of the Law Reform Commission of Hong Kong Sub-Committee on Debt Collection and continues to serve as a member of the Hong Kong Deposit Protection Appeals Tribunal Panel.
Professor Booth is the Founding Director of the Institute of Asian-Pacific Business Law (IAPBL). His main teaching and research interests are in comparative and cross-border insolvency law, insolvency and secured transactions law reform, and the development of insolvency infrastructures in Asia. He lectures and publishes extensively on insolvency topics both in the United States and internationally. Professor Booth has served as a consultant for the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, and other multilateral organizations on insolvency and commercial law reform projects in China, Vietnam, and Asia generally. He is a co-designer and coordinator for the Diploma in Insolvency Course for the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants and a member of the four-person team drafting the Technical Paper on the World Bank's Insolvency Principles and Guidelines. He is also serving as the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Expert for a law reform project in Vanuatu. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the International Insolvency Review, an International Fellow in the American College of Bankruptcy and a Founding Member of the International Insolvency Institute.
Teaching Areas:
Asian Insolvency Law, Corporate Reorganization, Secured Transactions, Second Year Seminar in Asian Commercial Law, Equitable Remedies
Recent and Forthcoming Publications:
Books:
Co-author with Philip Smart & Stephen Briscoe, Hong Kong Personal Insolvency Manual (2003).
Co-editor with Philip Smart & Stephen Briscoe, Hong Kong Corporate Insolvency Manual (2002).
Articles and Book Chapters:
Co-author with Douglas W. Arner, Paul Lejot & Berry F. Hsu, Property Rights, Collateral, Creditor Rights and Insolvency in East Asia, 42 Texas International Law Journal 2-43 (forthcoming 2007).
Co-author with Philip Smart & Stephen Briscoe, Corporate Rescue in Hong Kong, in Rodrigo Olivares-Caminal (ed), Corporate Debt Restructuring, pp. 291-315 (Kluwer, UK forthcoming 2007).
Co-author with Zhang Xian Chu and Wendy Chiu, The People's Republic of China, Chapter 18, in Collier International Business Insolvency Guide 18-1 to 18-64(LexisNexis 2006).
Charles D. Booth, Drafting Bankruptcy Laws in Socialist Market Economies: Recent Developments in China and Vietnam, 18(1) Columbia Journal of Asian Law 93-147 (2005).
Co-author with Philip Smart, Cross-Border Insolvency and the Discharge of Debts, 20(4) Insolvency Law & Practice 147-150 (UK, 2004).
Corporate Reorganization in Hong Kong: Can Provisional Liquidation Come to the Rescue? 2(2) Journal of Restructuring Finance 1-5 (Singapore 2005).
