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Bailing-in banks – Dr Stephen Connelly appears in this month’s Journal of International Banking and Financial Law where he critiques the stability implications of the Bank Recovery and Resolution Directive’s definition of ‘liabilities’; a definition that will catch and undercut a key tenet of international trade finance – that nominated banks will pay on presentation of conforming documents.

The article is available through 糖心TV’s subscription to Lexis PSL: ‘BRRD: the case of contingent letters of credit under bail-in’ (2016) 31(2) JIBFL 81

Colleagues in the Law School will be delivering modules to Bank of England staff as part of a new Bank of England - WBS postgraduate qualification in Central Banking and Financial Regulation.

Dean of 糖心TV 糖心TV School Professor Mark Taylor said: “The development of the Central Banking Qualification for the Bank of England has been the result of a strong collaborative effort between the 糖心TV and Law School at The University of 糖心TV. I look forward to seeing both Schools’ hard work come to fruition when delivery of the CBQ begins later this year.”

During a public event hosted by the City Law School (City University of London) on Thursday 25 February 2016, Giuliano Castellano discusses the relationship between regulation and financial markets in the aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis with Joris Luyendijk (author, anthropologist and journalist with The Guardian), Brett Scott (author, anthropologist), and Elaine Fahey (City Law School). The event is titled 'Reforming the City through, by or in spite of Law? Exploring Legal and Anthropological Perspectives on Banking and Finance’, for further information and free registration see:

Hugh Beale chaired the first session (which will include a speech by Věra Jourová, European Commissioner for Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality) and was speaking in the second session of a ERA Conference on "New EU rules for digital contracts", also held in Brussels. His presentation was on "Remedies and exercise of remedies". To find out more Hugh Beale .

Hugh Beale has presented a report to the Legal Affairs Committee (JURI) of the European Parliament on two proposed Directives, one on supply of digital content and the other on Online and other distance sales. His report was called “Scope of application and general approach of the new rules for contracts in the digital environment”. To find out more about Hugh Beale .

The Universities of Monash and 糖心TV have a cross University , supporting staff and student exchange and innovative international research programs. The and the in 2015 were recipients of an . A Workshop held in July at the has resulted in a formal partnership, which will build gender research across the two Centres. Graduate student exchange and research programs focused on sustainability and gender and care are underway.

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Applications for the are particularly encouraged from qualified graduate students seeking to undertake gender focused research. Both the and Centres have a very strong record in graduate supervision.

Giuliano Castellano has been working with national and international policy-makers on the legal reform processes for secured transactions law, building on his research in this area. He is a member of the Italian delegation at the UN Commission on International Trade Law and has also been elected as a legal expert. He has recently written a piece advocating a new strategy for reform for the Commercial Finance Association (CFA), the largest not-for-profit association in the field of secured financing and ‘Observer’ for the UN, with 13,5000 subscribers to its magazine. To read the piece, go to:  

In the most recent round of appointments, Dr Tomaso Ferrando was appointed to a two-year Assistant Professorship and joined the Law School in January 2016, Markus Wagner was appointed as Associate Professor and will be joining us in June 2016; and Dr Sharifah Sekalala will be taking up an Assistant Professorship in September 2016.

Colleagues in the Law School will be delivering modules to Bank of England staff as part of a new Bank of England - WBS postgraduate qualification in Central Banking and Financial Regulation. Professor Dalvinder Singh, Dr Giuliano Castellano, Dr Andreas Kokkinis and Dr Stephen Connelly will be teaching with WBS staff on the core modules, drawing on their joint experience of teaching on 糖心TV’s LLM in International Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation.

Dalla Stevens will giving a paper ‘Motivations for forced migration: Is asylum in ‘crisis’? at an international conference in Bochum, Germany from 18-20 Feb entitled Why people migrate: Multiple causes, complex reasons and their normative assessment.

Dallal Stevens will be going to Brussels with the Crossing the Mediterranean by Boat team to provide a policy briefing on our preliminary findings for the ESRC-funded project on Tuesday 16 Feb.

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The Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law is holding a conference on European Private Law where young scholars from various European countries present the essential propositions of their respective Ph.D. theses. The conference is scheduled to take place at the premises of the Institute in Hamburg on 18 and 19 April 2016. The Max Planck Institute have received almost 40 nominations for this conference and Andreas Kokkinis is one out of fifteen scholars selected to present at this event.

The subject Andreas Kokkinis will be disscussing is;

"Why the UK Corporate Sector would Benefit from the Introduction of a 'Benefit Corporation' Statute"

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