"Lunatic in arbitral court" or challenges and finds in working with foreign texts on insolvency (bankruptcy)

Abstract

The article describes the long-term experience of teaching first-year master's students in the program "Legal Regulation of Insolvency (Bankruptcy)" at the Faculty of Law of Lomonosov Moscow State University, focusing on foreign and comparative law blocks. It discusses the tasks given to students for working with original English-language texts, as well as observations, challenges, puzzles, and discoveries encountered during their completion. Teaching materials cover the legislation, soft law, doctrine, and case law of European countries, the United States, and some other countries in their development, allowing comparison of foreign experience with domestic practice, tracing the interconnections between bankruptcy and other legal institutions, as well as social and economic phenomena, understanding stylistic features of foreign legal systems, and acquiring useful skills for working with professional foreign literature.

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