Focus and Scope

Aims and Scope

Insolvation: International Journal of Insolvency, Restructuring & Bankruptcy Law is a peer-reviewed, open-access forum dedicated to the global dissemination of rigorous scholarship and high-utility practice insight on corporate distress, debt restructuring, bankruptcy, insolvency resolution, liquidation, creditor recovery, and systemic insolvency architecture.

The journal serves as a bridge between doctrinal legal analysis, comparative institutional design, financial economics, empirical accounting and valuation evidence, and policy-oriented restructuring practice across jurisdictions.

Core editorial axes

  • Comparative and cross-border insolvency: recognition, cooperation, conflict of laws, treaty harmonisation, model-law adoption, and cross-border creditor protection.
  • Corporate restructuring and rescue regimes: distressed debt, debt-to-equity conversion, pre-packaged resolution, workouts, rescue financing, cramdown design, and restructuring efficiency.
  • Empirical law and economics: liquidation outcomes, recovery rates, valuation disputes, macroeconomic effects of insolvency frameworks, accounting signals, default patterns, and institutional performance.
  • Emerging digital frontiers: digital assets, token-economy distress, protocol insolvency, asset tracing, technology-assisted valuation, and insolvency questions arising from new financial infrastructures.
  • Professional and institutional accountability: insolvency professionals, valuers, regulators, tribunals, courts, information utilities, and other actors shaping insolvency and restructuring outcomes.

Submissions welcomed

The journal welcomes doctrinal, comparative, empirical, policy, interdisciplinary, and practice-oriented submissions. Valuation-focused work is within scope where valuation is materially connected to insolvency, restructuring, liquidation, creditor recovery, rescue financing, resolution architecture, or related legal-policy questions.

Purely standalone valuation, finance, accounting, or commercial-law material without a meaningful insolvency, restructuring, liquidation, creditor-rights, or legal-policy connection falls outside the journal's core scope.