Book Review

Many people live in it or visit (and train of fly to) it: a city. Politically and legally a ‘city’ starts to beat the drum and is asking for a role in the global arena. In public international law a city has been a non-issue, until some 20 years ago. At that time a city was seen as an administrative… Read More »2021-12-doc10 A ‘city’ and its role in international law

Last month it has been 15 years that Poland became Member State of the EU. Since a few weeks – with the introduction of changes to Annex A of the EU Insolvency Regulation (EIR 2015) – we know that Poland now has seven (!) listen insolvency proceedings, with in Annex B also mentioning seven national names for persons acting as… Read More »2021-06-doc3 Insight into insolvency law of Poland

The book Business and private international law in the EU, shortly reviewed here, is an introductory textbook for students interested in cross-border business activities. In some circles the theme of private international law (PIL) is also referred to as international private law or conflicts of laws. The publication (some 150 pages with a short index) consists of seven chapters, in… Read More »2021-06-doc1 Business, PIL and EU

Recently, the third edition of Multinational Enterprises and the Law was published. It is the seminal work of Peter T. Muchlinski, Emeritus Professor in International Commercial Law at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. The first edition was published more than a quarter of a century ago – in 1995 (Wiley-Blackwell, 648 pages), the second… Read More »2021-04-doc2 Multinational Enterprises and the Law – 3rd ed. by Muchlinski

In 2011, in a European publication, I wrote ‘The H-word is out!’. Certain words in conversation (between insolvency experts) were surely not to be used 10 years ago. One of them was, indeed, ‘harmonisation’. There were zillion obstacles against the idea that insolvency national legal systems can be harmonised. It was a typically political Pavlov reaction. Harmonisation of insolvency laws… Read More »2021-03-doc5 First book on European preventive restructuring

In her new monograph, Sarah Paterson, associate professor of law at the London School of Economics, makes the argument to abandon the search for a fixed or universal conceptual framework for analysing corporate reorganization law. In the book Corporate Reorganization Law and Forces of Change, Paterson denies that it is possible to use such a universal conceptual framework in analysing… Read More »2021-03-doc1 Thinking corporate restructuring

Credit Rating Agencies (CRAs) publish ratings in the form of statements on the general creditworthiness of issuers or obligors. They do so on behalf of investors in loans of companies, semi-public bodies or States on the basis of quantitative and qualitative analysis of the financial strength of these issuers. Well-known names are Standard & Poor’s, Moody’s and Fitch. All types… Read More »2021-02-doc1 Liability of Credit rating agencies