More than other parts of banking law, the law of bank insolvency focuses the legal mind on the age-old ebb and flow between state power and individual freedom under the law.1 Any discussion of banking law in a market-based economic system must review the public interest served by the bank regulator as agent of the state in the light of the principle of freedom of economic activity of individual banks and their owners.
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