企业破产立法目标的争论及其评价

企业破产与自然人破产的立法目标并不完全相同。由于当今社会企业破产案件的大量存在,企业破产引发的社会问题和利益冲突变得日益复杂和尖锐,各国破产立法的制度构造相应地发生了较大的变化。这些变化主要表现为以下方面:破产和解及公司重整等破产预防制度成为破产立法体系中必不可少的组成部分;对债务人的救济和康复问题的关注及相应措施的采用;债权人利益与其他社会群体利益之间的矛盾在破产案件中日益凸现。这些问题程度不同地反映到了不同的破产法理论观点之中,并开始在美国破产法理论界出现正面交锋,英国一些学者也加入争论。

A Review on the Debates about the Legislative Aims of Bankruptcy Law

The aim of legislation on cooperate bankruptcy and the one on natural person's bankruptcy is not identical. Due to the huge volume of cooperate bankruptcy cases in current society, the social problems and interests conflicts stemmed from cooperate bankruptcy become more and more complex and sharp, so the systematic constructions of various states have changed accordingly. These changes were reflected in different bankruptcy legal schools and these schools began to battle in American and British theoretical circle. This article tries to make a simple review on this discussion.