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
Van Boom, hoogleraar civiel recht aan de Universiteit Leiden, schreef een heldere stidiepocket over kernpunten in het Nederlandse materieel beslag- en faillissementsrecht. Centraal staan de leerstukken van verhaal, uitwinning en rangorde. Na een korte inleiding volgen hoofdstukken over rangorde, hoofdlijnen van verhaalsbeslag, bijzonderheden daarvan, faillissement en beslag, de positie van de fiscus en benadeling in verhaalsmogelijkheden. Het zijn onderwerpen die… Read More »2018-11-doc1 Over verhaal, uitwinning en rangorde
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
The EU Insolvency Regulation (Recast) (848/2015) applies since June 2016 to 26 member states (all, except Denmark). In these states more than 100 different collective insolvency proceedings can be used, by natural persons or by companies. Some countries only provide for one such insolvency proceeding (Bulgaria, Croatia), in other countries two proceedings can be opened (Estonia) or three (The Netherlands,… Read More »2018-04-doc3 Harmonising security rights in the EU?
A professional self-portrait. This is my characterisation for the book with the title ‘The Framework of Corporate Insolvency Law’, written by Hamish Anderson. Hamish was a partner and now consultant of Norton Rose Fulbright LLP, and – since 2016 – a Honorary Professor at Nottingham Trent University. Anderson and (now) Lord Justice David Richards (I take from his Foreword to… Read More »2017-12-doc2 Corporate insolvency law, as memoires
The UNCITRAL Model Law on Cross-Border Insolvency, celebrating its 20th year of existence, is world-wide regarded as a valuable tool in organising a country’s provisions of international insolvency law. The Model Law deals in its core with recognition of foreign insolvency proceedings, communication and cooperation of proceedings (by insolvency practitioners and courts) concerning the same debtor and the rights of… Read More »2017-11-doc7 Some remarks on the Model Law
De laatste 20 jaar verscheen van het boek Polak/Pannevis, Insolventierecht, om de 3 jaar een nieuwe druk. In september 2017 verscheen de 14e druk van het boek dat tot 2011 de titel ‘Faillissementsrecht’ had. Voorwaar een prestatie van formaat. De titel van het boek is wel, maar de opzet is niet gewijzigd. Dus wordt de gehele stof aan de hand… Read More »2017-10-doc6 Polak-Pannevis, Insolventierecht, 14e druk, 2017
The core thesis of this book, shortly reviewed here, is that cross-border insolvency rules of all kinds are founded on, and can be traced back to, basic values and that they aim to pursue and enforce such values. The book Principles of Cross-border Insolvency Law is written by professor Reinhard Bork, a very productive scholar of the University of Hamburg.… Read More »2017-10-doc1 Book Bork on Cross Border Insolvency Law
With the date of this publication cited as at Buddha’s Birthday 2016, in the book ‘Cross-Border Insolvency: Principles and Practice’ (Sweet & Maxwell, 2016, xlv + 351 pages), its author Look Chan Ho, discusses English cross-border insolvency law. The author is dissatisfied that this area of law lacks a solid taxonomic order and that practices relies too much on improvisation.… Read More »2017-09-doc9 2016 book of Look Chan Ho