This essay recounts and updates some of my research in property theory and in contract theory. One aim of my research has been to provide pathways for understanding the significance of market-inalienability. In developed societies that feature the institutions of private law, with commitment to...

The ad hoc institutional configurations that facilitated the resolution of sovereign insolvency for over thirty years are fragmenting. In the absence of an acceptable alternative, the recent pari passu decision reveals the dangers of common law courts pressured to enforce contracts and paper...

A comparison of American, French, Russian, and Lithuanian rules regarding the return of property which has been transferred to a bona fide purchaser, with a special focus on Lithuanian law. Lithuanian law turns French law upside down, strengthening the security of acquisitions in relation to...

The European Commission has been working to promote reform and modernisation of restrictive regulation in the professional services area since 2002. This underlines wide disparities in levels of regulation across the EU and reveals links between excessive regulation and economic inefficiency....

Dutch company law is undergoing tumultuous times. Much is changing in the legislation. For example, a major revision of private limited company law is imminent. The courts are constantly presented with more and more difficult issues. Precisely in such times, there is a need for guiding ideas....

The scientific interest has arisen from many questions related to the collateral with title transfer of the ownership. Why EU law adopted an old and prohibited for many centuries and many legal systems title transfer collateral in Financial Collateral Directive (FCD)? Through the centuries it...

As technologies change and the scale of human activity grows, so, too, does the law. The surge of oil and gas production in the United States, spurred by hydraulic fracturing in shale formations, has fomented a sea change in oil and gas law, substantially infusing this area with more complex...

This paper explores the legal risks involved in depositing cryptocurrency with crypto-custodians such as crypto-exchanges. These risks materialize most acutely in case these crypto-custodians fall insolvent, which has happened over the last decade in several instances. Recent years have...

This essay revisits earlier work on the relationship between insolvency law and secured credit, the role of secured transactions law reforms, and the benefits of secured credit. These complex relationships require a holistic approach toward reforms of secured transactions law and insolvency law....