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This paper aims at exploring the extent to which transparency is able to boost and safeguard asustainable financial system. Requiring disclosure from market participants is a recurring regulatorytechnique of financial law. Whether it is in relation to listing securities on the stock exchange, acquiringa significant proportion of shares or launching...

The presentation will provide a systematical assessment of the extent to which the Administration (Restrictions on Disposal etc. to Connected Persons) Regulations 2021 achieve the goal of the government to quell the negative perceptions of pre-pack administration. The pre-pack has generated much criticism from disenfranchised groups who regard the practice...

Professor Scheppele will discuss the domestic legal mechanisms through which the courts in Hungary and Poland have been captured and review the resources that exist in EU law to restore independent judiciaries. Kim Lane Scheppele is the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and International Affairs in the Princeton School of Public...

This seminar will discuss how the law on the non-use of force and the law on self-defence can apply to cyber attacks and identify any challenges that arise. In this regard it will also consider the problem of attribution of cyber attacks. 

Delivered by Dr Claudio Lombardi, Assistant professor and Director of the Eurasian Centre for Law, Innovation, and Development (ECLID), KIMEP University

This seminar was cancelled

The current political situation in Scotland is essentially a clash between two different types of sovereignty: the legal sovereignty of the Westminster Parliament versus the political sovereignty of the Scots People. This raises issues about which form or sovereignty will prevail which is arguably in turn a question of the...

The talk will present the two draft regulations (DGA and DSA) put on the table by the European Commission at the end of 2020. The first one deals with the framework for data sharing. It aims at facilitating the access to data, for example from government to businesses or through...

There are discussions before the UNCITRAL and ICSID on reviews of various procedural aspects of international investments arbitration. These all feed into the ‘backlash’ against international arbitration generally but as it relates to the difficulties states have encountered with international investment agreements they have signed and arbitral awards made against...

Private International Law (PIL), and choice of law within it in particular, are both a scientific subject-matter and a practical tool. It is beautifully complex and painstakingly accurate. But is it practical? Are its intricate rules actually used to achieve the most accurate of outcomes? Or do users of the...

Statutory duties to consult have proliferated in recent years. They appear to hold out a promise that the procedural protections of judicial review should be available not just in relation to decisions affecting individuals personally but to support political participation in a much broader sense.  Has the statutory conferral of...