SYNOPSIS
This course focusses on selected issues in corporate insolvency law. It takes a comparative and economic approach.
The first module presents the latest reform proposals on insolvency by the EU Commission to which the speaker has contributed as member of the Commission’s expert group.
The second module investigates approaches in the UK and the EU to solve the distress of corporate groups.
The third module engages with ways in which contracts can be used to solve the problems arising in the financial distress of the corporation.
SPEAKER
Professor Felix Steffek is Professor of Law at the University of Cambridge and Senior Member of Newnham College. He serves as Director of the Centre for Corporate and Commercial Law (3CL) and holds a JM Keynes Fellowship in Financial Economics awarded by the University of Cambridge. He is SGRI Visiting Professor at Singapore Management University and Global Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame.
His research interests cover corporate finance and insolvency law, commercial law, dispute resolution and artificial intelligence. He has advised international organisations, governments, parliaments and courts in these areas. He is the representative for law on the Academic Publishing Committee of Cambridge University Press.
Felix Steffek is leading multiple research projects on artificial intelligence and law, among them the Nuffield Foundation funded project on ‘Access to Justice Through Artificial Intelligence’ and the AHRC funded project on ‘Explainable and Ethical Legal Artificial Intelligence’. For further information please see https://www.law.cam.ac.uk/people/academic/f-steffek/6136.
FEES
The registration fees for this course is $392.40 (including GST).
Please note that there will be no refund of any fees should the participant cancel the registration/ fail to attend the event. However, registration is transferable. Notice of any change in participant should be sent to SMULA, by 20 November 2024.
SMU Law Academy reserves the right to cancel or postpone any event. In such case, we will arrange for the refund of fees paid.
