Josiah Daniel
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Historian |
| Location | Dallas, Texas, United States |
| Introduction | -->I am an historian whose principal project is the biography of Dallas congressman Hatton W. Sumners (1875-1962), who served 1913-1947 and chaired the House Judiciary Committee from 1931 onward. Portions of chapters now in print include an article focusing on Sumners’s role in the 1937 court-packing crisis that was published June 2021 in the John Marshall Law Review, and an article to be a part of a chapter about Sumners's more or less singlehanded amendment of the Electoral Count Act in 1928 on SSRN. After that will be an article, enlarged from a chapter, on Sumners's primary involvement in bankruptcy legislation of the thirties including the creation of Chapter IX (municipal bankruptcy). In 2023 I published the article "Cooptation of the Carmack Amendment by the Railroads. 1906-1917: A Study in Associational Lawyering" in Northern Kentucky Law Review. Another project is the history of the Texas Bar Association, 1882-1940. -->I am retired from law practice. During more than 39 years, I represented all types of parties in many cases under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code, and in advisory work regarding all aspects of restructuring and insolvency law. |