Spooner, Joseph

Number of items: 25.
Article
  • Spooner, Joseph, Schwartz, Saul (2025). The local injustice of bankruptcy: geographical variation in access to debt relief in England. Journal of Law and Society, 52(4), 606 - 627. https://doi.org/10.1111/jols.70030 picture_as_pdf
  • Spooner, Joseph (2024). Contract law when the poor pay more. Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, 44(2), 257 - 285. https://doi.org/10.1093/ojls/gqae002 picture_as_pdf
  • Spooner, Joseph (2019). Bankruptcy policy in a dematerialised insolvency law: glimpses of a hidden system. Insolvency Intelligence, 32(1), 30-37. picture_as_pdf
  • Spooner, Joseph (2018). The quiet-loud-quiet politics of post-crisis consumer bankruptcy law: the case of Ireland and the Troika. Modern Law Review, 81(5), 790-824. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2230.12365
  • Spooner, Joseph (2017). Seeking shelter in personal insolvency law: recession, eviction and bankruptcy’s social safety net. Journal of Law and Society, 44(3), 374 - 405. https://doi.org/10.1111/jols.12035
  • Spooner, Joseph (2016). Book review: comparative perspectives of consumer over-indebtedness - a view from the UK, Germany, Greece, and Italy, editor: Federico Feretti. International Insolvency Review, 25(3), 241-244. https://doi.org/10.1002/iir.1261
  • Spooner, Joseph (2015). Recalling the public interest in personal insolvency law: a note on Professor Fletcher's foresight. Nottingham Insolvency and Business Law eJournal, 3(29), 537-563.
  • Spooner, Joseph (2013). Fresh start or stalemate? European insolvency lawreform and the politics of household debt. European Review of Private Law, 21(3), 747-794.
  • Spooner, Joseph (2012). Long overdue: what the belated reform of Irish personal insolvency law tells us about comparative consumer bankruptcy. American Bankruptcy Law Journal, 86(2), 243-304.
  • Spooner, Joseph (2012). Sympathy for the debtor? The modernisation of Irish personal insolvency law. Insolvency Intelligence, 25(7), p. 97.
    • Book
  • Spooner, Joseph (2019). Bankruptcy: the case for relief in an economy of debt. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316711484
    • Chapter
  • Spooner, Joseph (2024). Bankruptcy, housing, ‘have nots’, and the limits of legal landmarks: Places for People Homes Ltd v Sharples. In Gardner, J. & Ramsay, I. (Eds.), Landmark Cases in Consumer Law (pp. 315 -332). Bloomsbury Academic. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781509952328.ch-017 picture_as_pdf
  • Spooner, Joseph (2021). The local austere creditor. In Schwartz, S. (Ed.), Oppressed by Debt: Government and the Justice System as a Creditor of the Poor (pp. 42 - 68). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367816216-3 picture_as_pdf
  • Spooner, Joseph (2009). Enforcement of Court Orders (Amendment) Act 2009. In Clark, R. (Ed.), Irish Current Law Statutes Annotated . Round Hall.
    • Conference or Workshop Item
  • Spooner, Joseph, de Muynck, Michael (2012-09-11) Bringing harmonisation home: EU regulatory regimes for unsecured consumer credit and mortgage credit [Paper]. Society of Legal Scholars Annual Conference 2012, Bristol, United Kingdom, GBR.
  • Spooner, Joseph (2012-06-05 - 2012-06-08) Political economy as an alternative to social and cultural explanations of differences in national personal insolvency laws [Paper]. Law & Society Association Annual Meeting 2012, Hawai‘i, United States, USA.
  • Spooner, Joseph (2012-06-27 - 2012-06-29) The challenge to traditional personal insolvency law of the consumer credit society [Paper]. 4th Biennial Conference of the European Consortium on Political Research (ECPR) Standing Group on Regulatory Governance, Exeter, United Kingdom, GBR.
  • Spooner, Joseph (2011-04-29 - 2011-04-30) Little Dorrit or the Artful Dodger? Reconstructing the consumer debtor in Ireland’s 'Dickensian' personal debt laws [Paper]. 3rd Irish Society of Comparative Law Annual Conference, Dublin, Ireland, IRL.
  • Spooner, Joseph (2011-06-02 - 2011-06-05) A comparative examination of the contrasting characterisations of debtors underpinning national personal insolvency laws [Paper]. Law & Society Association Annual Meeting 2011, San Francisco, United States, USA.
  • Spooner, Joseph (2010-03-05 - 2010-03-06) Comparative personal insolvency law and 'bankruptcy tourism' within the European judicial area [Paper]. 2nd Irish Society of Comparative Law Annual Conference, Belfast, United Kingdom, GBR.
  • Spooner, Joseph (2010-09-15) Long overdue: the reform of Irish law as a case study of divergences and convergences in national personal insolvency laws in the context of European 'bankruptcy tourism' [Paper]. International Insolvency Law Conference 2010, Nottingham, United Kingdom, GBR.
  • Spooner, Joseph (2010-06-17 - 2010-06-19) When life hands you a lemon...shifting paradigms in consumer credit regulation and the accelerated rise of the principle of responsible lending after the financial crisis [Paper]. 3rd Biennial Conference of the European Consortium on Political Research (ECPR) Standing Group on Regulatory Governance, Dublin, Ireland, IRL.
  • Spooner, Joseph (2009-09-28) The legal options available to Irish defaulters [Paper]. Mutual Learning on Financial Inclusion (MuLFI) workshop no. 10: Debt settlements - inclusion or exclusion?, Oslo, Norway, NOR.
  • Spooner, Joseph (2009-07-02 - 2009-07-03) An ounce of prevention, a pound of cure: responsible lending and a preventative legal approach to over-indebtedness [Paper]. International Graduate Legal Research Conference (IGLRC) 2009, London, United Kingdom, GBR.
    • Blog post
  • Spooner, Joseph (8 February 2023) Levelling up or knocking down? How the crisis of Council Tax debt is experienced across English local authorities. British Politics and Policy at LSE. picture_as_pdf