Going Bare in the Law of Assignments: When is an Assignment Champertous?

Authors

• Anthony J. Sebok, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of LawFollow

Publication Date

2020

Journal

FIU Law Review

Abstract

The article critiques the legal distinction between champerty and assignment, arguing that the focus should be on the assignor's motives rather than the assignee's identity. It challenges Dr. David Capper's approach to defining "bare assignments" and proposes that assignments should not be prohibited based solely on the assignee's identity unless they facilitate abus

Volume

14

Issue

1

First Page

85

Last Page

102

Publisher

Florida International University College of Law

DOI

10.25148/lawrev.14.1.9

Disciplines

Civil Law | Civil Procedure | Contracts | Law | State and Local Government Law | Torts

Comments

Symposium: Eleventh Annual Remedies Discussion Forum - Universite Paris Dauphine PSL Research University (Paris, France, 2019)

Recommended Citation

Anthony J. Sebok, Going Bare in the Law of Assignments: When is an Assignment Champertous?, 14 FIU L. Rev. 85 (2020).
10.25148/lawrev.14.1.9