JCOERE – Judicial Co-Operation for Economic Recovery in Europe is a research action project funded by the EU Commission DG Justice. The project has a number of research goals:- The most important part of the project focuses on the obligation imposed on courts in the Recast Regulation 848/2015...

The JCOERE Project, funded by the European Commission’s DG Justice Programme (2014-2020), addresses two aspects of the EU’s strategy to respond to the problems of cross-border insolvency within the increasingly integrated internal market. The Commission’s strategy is described in the...

The PRD has introduced a number of concepts that are new and untested throughout much of the EU. While the concepts themselves are not unfamiliar, many of the new provisions have created a field of controversy and debate among academics, practitioners, and policy makers as legislators begin to...

JCOERE will focus on the strengthened co-operation obligations imposed on the judiciary in the Recast Regulation but will confine its enquiry to preventive restructuring processes. In addition to exploring challenges that procedural rules might present to co-operation, this project will focus on...

This compelling volume considers three significant modern developments: the ever-changing role of women in society; a significant and growing dissatisfaction with current dominant understandings of corporate governance, corporate law and corporate theory; and the increasing concern to establish...

Social policy is a concept that is often left on the side-lines of insolvency law, and often for good reason. However, ignoring this inconvenient aspect of today's legal culture inhibits a broader perspective when considering how insolvency law and more particularly business rescue will be...

Harmonisation of insolvency laws has been a the top of the EU institutions' agenda for the last decade. This frenzy precipitated in the aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis. European institutions have been prolific in creating a comprehensive EU-wide framework. These efforts culminated with...

The financial crisis and the sovereign debt crisis that followed it have been attributed to a number of causes. Whether these are economic, social, cultural, or legal, they are all by and large also political. The aim of this article is not to delve into the myriad of heated political arguments...