This paper consists in the “Lens of London” documentary which is created by Queen Mary students of Intellectual Property Law under the US jurisdiction. The focus of this paper are the issues such as: what is a performer, who owns the copyright of the work, credit and pre-existing work...

A deep-seated rule in Israeli law is that the bank owes a fiduciary duty to its customers. The concept of imposing a fiduciary duty on banks is not originally an Israeli one. The Israeli courts adopted it from British law. However, from the moment that it was introduced in Israel, the courts...

Concerns about secured creditor capture of Chapter 11 are now part of the corporate bankruptcy reform conversation in the United States. So, for example, the American Bankruptcy Institute's Commission on Chapter 11, scheduled to report and make recommendations for the reform of United States...

When things go wrong, it is always good to find someone to blame. As the credit crisis started to unfold in 2007, credit rating agencies (“CRAs”) emerged as the villain – or scapegoat, one might say – for commentators and regulators alike. To sum up, observers accused CRAs of doing a...

National governments have been forced to use an extraordinary amount of public resources and techniques to contain the global financial crisis (“the crisis”). This Article analyzes the role of the U.K. Tripartite Authorities in dealing with the crisis - both the “ordinary” measures, such...

Economic theory conjectures complementarities between the ranking of creditors in formal insolvency proceedings and the use of collateral in bank loan contracts as well as the exist-ence of relational compared to arm's length lending. In this paper we seek evidence for the-se hypotheses taking...

This paper provides an account of the emergent phenomenon of ‘bankruptcy tourism' - forum shopping by debtors for favourable personal insolvency law - within the EU and with particular reference to England and Wales. After outlining the structural features of the European legal framework that...

The law of trusts has spent the last twenty years rapidly shedding many traditional requirements, forms and restrictions which imposed liability on negligent trustees, protected vulnerable beneficiaries and prevented the use of trusts to avoid the claims of settlors' and beneficiaries'...