Book Review

‘In short, theory matters’, the three editors submit on the first page of their introduction to this book. They underline the important role that legal theory plays in the development of insolvency law. All 15 contributions (next to an introduction and a welcome editors’ conclusion) explore how law and theory are able to respond to issues of financial distress in… Read More »2024-12-doc1 Re-examining Insolvency Law and Theory

EIR 2000. Nearly 25 years ago, it was a breakthrough in the rather terra incognita field of international insolvency law in Europe. Indeed, there was a draft treaty that had been worked on for more than 30 years – with ups and downs. For political reasons that draft faded into the background, however, large parts of its contents could be… Read More »2024-07-doc5 Cuniberti and Leandro (eds.), A new Commentary on the European Insolvency Regulation

My colleague from the University of Bari Aldo Moro, prof. Antonio Leandro, wrote a book (in Italian) under the title ‘Movement and Extinction of Commercial Credits in Conflicts of law of the EU. The ‘Rome I’ Regulation between the Internal Market and the Capital Market.’ It is a complex topic, not often addressed in depth. Reason enough to ask Antonio… Read More »2024-04-doc1 Assignment of claims, subrogation and set-off

Cross-Border Protocols in Insolvencies of Multinational Enterprise Groups is the title of a book that I have written together with my Leiden colleague Ilya Kokorin. In May 2021 it has been published by Edward Elgar Publishing in the series Elgar Corporate and Insolvency Law and Practice. Cross-border insolvency protocols were an intriguing new development in the early days in my… Read More »2023-08-doc2 Lost and Found: Database of insolvency protocols

Professor Bork (University of Hamburg) is one of the most active authors in Europe about all aspects of international insolvency law, be it European, comparative or international, both practical as well as theoretical. In his new book Advanced introduction to Cross-Border Insolvency Law, he introduces the applicable codification, under which term he includes transnational law, non-binding recommendations (soft law, although… Read More »2023-07-doc3 Advanced Introduction to Cross-border Insolvency Law

The book with this title, shortly introduced here, is a remarkable contribution to the understanding of large cross-border restructuring and insolvency cases. No doubt it will be a valuable tool for experts in this area, not only for the topics covered as well as for the colleagues of the authors delivering it. Its background lies in the International Insolvency Institute… Read More »2023-07-doc1 Cross Border Restructuring & Insolvency 2012-2022