This paper argues that while financial markets have become transnational, their governance structures have remained national at the core: Fiscal responsibility for crises is ultimately born by the nation state where the crisis occurred – whether or not it bears any responsibility for...

La présente note revient sur l'arrêt CJUE, 12 mai 2011, aff. C-144/10, Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (BVG) c. JPMorgan Chase Bank NA, Frankfurt Branch. Au terme de cet arrêt, la solution suivante est posée: "une interprétation large de l'article 22, point 2, du règlement n° 44/2001, en vertu...

Le centre des intérêts principaux est le critère retenu par le Règlement 1346/2000 permettant de déterminer la juridiction compétente pour ouvrir une procédure d'insolvabilité principale à l'encontre d'un débiteur, ainsi que la loi applicable à cette procédure. Il est également le...

Against a backdrop of rapidly evolving crisis management in the European financial and sovereign debt crisis this essay aims both to explore and to re-consider the role of law in the EU integration process: What did law accomplish? Where did it fail? What is law going to endure? What kind of...

This paper aims to contribute to the understanding of the role of the EU in the global production of transnational law of risk regulation (TNLRR). TNLRR is defined as a harmonious, cross-jurisdictional regulatory environment that results from the circulation of risk regulatory models among...

The past few decades have witnessed the growth of an exciting debate in the legal academy about the tensions between economic pressures to commodify and philosophical commitments to the market inalienability of certain items. Sex, organs, babies and college athletics are among the many topics...

Synopsis: The PSD, which was adopted in November 2007 at Community Level as a Directive, will have far ranging changes on financial services providers on a Euro-domestic and national level. The UK implemented the PSD via national legislation and the FSA Handbook ahead of the Directive's longstop...