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Rethinking the Rhetoric and Strategies of European Insolvency Law Harmonisation Post-COVID

While the harmonisation of insolvency law in the European Union (EU) has been a top priority on the European institutions’ agenda in the last decade, this endeavour has been slow...

25 October 2021

Artificial Intelligence: A Roadblock in the Way of Compliance with the GDPR?

As more businesses seek to expand their reach by offering services across the globe, including to the European Union countries, the issue of compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation...

1 April 2021

Samar Ashour

Towards a Common Framework for the Acceptance of DLT Applications in the EU Banking Sector

Over the last decade, applications of distributed ledger technologies (DLT) and crypto-assets have been increasingly observed within the EU financial sector. However, regulatory fragmentation and legal uncertainty have dampened levels...

17 February 2021

Elisabeth Noble

Mediating the Vaccine Dispute

AstraZeneca and the European Union (EU) are at odds over vaccine deliveries. The British-Swedish firm has encountered production problems at a European plant and wants to deliver only about 31 million...

1 February 2021

Horst Eidenmüller

The DLT Pilot Regime: An EU Sandbox, at Last!

It has been five years since the UK Financial Conduct Authority pioneered the idea of a regulatory sandbox in the financial sector—a controlled space with relaxed rules, in which businesses...

19 November 2020

Wolf-Georg Ringe

Christopher Ruof

Cybersecurity Regulation in the Financial Sector: Prospects of Legal Harmonization in the European Union and Beyond

In the modern digital world, where there is cybermoney, there are also cyberattackers. According to IBM, the finance and insurance sector has now been the single most attacked...

22 June 2020

Anton Didenko

Bankruptcy Tourism and the European Union’s Corporate Restructuring Quandary: The Cathedral in Another Light

The US bankruptcy system is regarded as the preeminent bankruptcy system in the world due to its ability to secure high creditor recovery rates, preserve value for stakeholders, and facilitate...

20 March 2020

Samir D. Parikh

European Parliament Recommends Creating EU-Wide Social Enterprise Legal Status – A Misstep?

In July 2018, the European Parliament passed a resolution recommending to the Commission the creation of an optional EU-wide legal status for social enterprises. The Commission now has one year...

21 September 2018

J S Liptrap

Collateral Damage: Brexit’s Negative Effects on Regulatory Competition and Legal Innovation in Private Law

In a recent article I attempt to assess the consequences of Brexit for English and European private law. More specifically, I am interested in how the level of legal...

10 May 2018

Horst Eidenmüller

Protection of Whistleblowers in the European Union: The Promising Parliament Resolution and the Challenge for the European Commission

The European Parliament has adopted an important, but not binding, resolution on legitimate measures to protect whistleblowers acting in the public interest when disclosing confidential information of companies and public...

14 December 2017

Dimitrios Kafteranis

Rethinking the Rhetoric and Strategies of European Insolvency Law Harmonisation Post-COVID

Artificial Intelligence: A Roadblock in the Way of Compliance with the GDPR?

Towards a Common Framework for the Acceptance of DLT Applications in the EU Banking Sector

Mediating the Vaccine Dispute

The DLT Pilot Regime: An EU Sandbox, at Last!

Cybersecurity Regulation in the Financial Sector: Prospects of Legal Harmonization in the European Union and Beyond

Bankruptcy Tourism and the European Union’s Corporate Restructuring Quandary: The Cathedral in Another Light

European Parliament Recommends Creating EU-Wide Social Enterprise Legal Status – A Misstep?

Collateral Damage: Brexit’s Negative Effects on Regulatory Competition and Legal Innovation in Private Law

Protection of Whistleblowers in the European Union: The Promising Parliament Resolution and the Challenge for the European Commission

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