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In her book The Future of Cross-Border Insolvency: Overcoming Biases and Closing Gaps, University of Nottingham’s professor of international commercial law Irit Mevorach explores theoretical and practical developments in the field of cross-border insolvency. She uses a wide scope including both commercial entities and financial institutions. She also employs a broad interdisciplinary perspective, including public international law, international (soft) law… Read More »2019-01-doc1 The Future of Cross-border Insolvency

When I was a young law student in Amsterdam, in the early 70s of last century, ‘European Community Law’, as it was called then, was an optional course. The very far away subject was followed by some 10 students. It intrigued me because there seemed to be a new organisation to achieve a common economic market for the six Western-European… Read More »2018-11-doc11 Oxford Principles of European Union Law

During 2016 and 2017 researchers of universities or research-institutes of Genoa, Sofia, Prague, Mainz, Riga, Valencia, Amsterdam and Glasgow have developed best practices in cross border cases for the survival of distressed companies. The project was co-funded by the Action grants programme to support judicial cooperation in civil and criminal matters of the European Commission. Aligning with a practical comparative… Read More »2018-06-doc8 Applying EU Insolvency Regualtion in Practice

The book shortly announced here was published for the first time in 2002. The second edition appeared in 2011, and now, 7 years later, the third edition is published: Transaction Avoidance in Insolvencies, mainly authored by Rebecca Parry, James Ayliffe QC, and Sharif Shivji, published by Oxford University Press (ISBN 978 0 19 879340 3). Significant developments have found their… Read More »2018-06-doc7 Book on Transaction avoidance in insolvency