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Judging Sam: Judging the FTX Bankruptcy
Season 4 · Episode 23

Judging Sam: Judging the FTX Bankruptcy

Against the Rules: The Big Short Companion

March 27, 202443m 17s

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Show Notes

While Sam Bankman-Fried has been on trial, the cryptocurrency exchange he founded, FTX, has been going through bankruptcy proceedings. Jonathan Lipson, a professor at Temple Law School, tells Michael Lewis that he believes the proceedings have highlighted problems with the US bankruptcy system. 

Jonathan Lipson’s research paper “FTX’d: Conflicting Public and Private Interests in Chapter 11” is forthcoming in the Stanford Law Review. You can read a draft here

You can listen to our previous interview about the FTX bankruptcy with Jonathan’s co-author, David Skeel, here

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