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A fresh and insightful guide to post-financial crisis cross-border insolvency, this book interrogates the current regime and sets out a framework for improving its future. In recent decades, and especially since the global financial crisis, a number of important initiatives have focused on developing the mechanisms for managing the insolvency of multinational enterprises and financial institutions. The book considers the effectiveness of the current system and identifies the gaps that could be bridged by adopting certain strategies and tools, to improve the system further.
The book first discusses the theoretical debate regarding cross-border insolvency and surveys the strengths and weaknesses of the prevailing method-modified universalism in its application to both commercial entities and financial institutions, consequently identifying a single set of emerging norms. The book argues that adhering to these norms more robustly would enhance global welfare and produce the best outcomes for businesses and institutions.
By drawing upon sources from international law as well as behavioural and economic theory, the book offers a blueprint for meeting the demands of future cross-border insolvencies. It considers how to translate modified universalism into binding international law and how to choose the right instrument for cross-border insolvency as well as the impact that instrument design has on decisions and choices. It explores how to encourage compliance and proposes mechanisms that could potentially overcome, or at least take into account, behavioural biases in decision-making.
List of contents
- 1: Modified Universalism To Date
- 2: The Debiasing Role of the Cross-Border Insolvency System
- 3: Modified Universalism as Customary International Law
- 4: Instrument Choice and Design
- 5: A Normative Framework for Promoting Compliance
- 6: Assessment of International Instruments
- 7: Conclusion: The Future of Cross-Border Insolvency
About the author
Irit Mevorach is Professor of International Commercial Law at the University of Nottingham. From 1998-2003, Irit practised at Lipa Meir & Co, Tel-Aviv. Since 2006 Irit has been an expert adviser to the UK delegation to UNCITRAL. In 2013, she was appointed Senior Counsel to the World Bank. In that capacity, she has advised governments of some ten countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Caribbean on the reform of business, personal insolvency, and creditor/debtor systems, and has led the Bank's Global Task Force on Insolvency and Creditor Rights. Her book Insolvency within Multinational Enterprise Groups (OUP, 2009) won an Edwin Coe/INSOL Europe Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship (2010).
Summary
A fresh and insightful guide to post-financial crisis cross-border insolvency, this book interrogates the current regime and sets out a framework for improving its future. In recent decades, and especially since the global financial crisis, a number of important initiatives have focused on developing the mechanisms for managing the insolvency of multinational enterprises and financial institutions. The book considers the effectiveness of the current system and identifies the gaps that could be bridged by adopting certain strategies and tools, to improve the system further.
The book first discusses the theoretical debate regarding cross-border insolvency and surveys the strengths and weaknesses of the prevailing method-modified universalism in its application to both commercial entities and financial institutions, consequently identifying a single set of emerging norms. The book argues that adhering to these norms more robustly would enhance global welfare and produce the best outcomes for businesses and institutions.
By drawing upon sources from international law as well as behavioural and economic theory, the book offers a blueprint for meeting the demands of future cross-border insolvencies. It considers how to translate modified universalism into binding international law and how to choose the right instrument for cross-border insolvency as well as the impact that instrument design has on decisions and choices. It explores how to encourage compliance and proposes mechanisms that could potentially overcome, or at least take into account, behavioural biases in decision-making.
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this text is well-written and the argument well-supported by an enviable range of resources drawn from a range of subjects and disciplines. It can be recommended to those seeking a fresh approach towards understanding this challenging area of law and practice.
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This book offers a range of important reflections on the future development of this area of law and the analysis is persuasive. The material is rigorously researched, as is evident from the extensive referencing and numerous examples from cases around the world, and it puts forward some strongly argued and insightful points. ... This is a book that gives optimism for the future development of scholarship in this area of law. Rebecca Parry, Banking & Finance Law Review
