This is the third and final volume in the ‘New Bank Insolvency Law

for China and Europe’ series. The current volume provides a detailed

comparison of Chinese and European bank insolvency and resolution

laws. Moreover, it assesses to what extent these laws conform to

international standards such as those set by the Financial Stability

Board. Specific topics discussed in the book include: the institutional

framework for the management of failing banks, insolvency

proceedings, management of ...

By the second century AD the Roman empire had grown into a vast multilingual and pluriform empire. Unlike in the Roman West, where the lingua franca was Latin, the inhabitants of the Roman East predominantly spoke Greek. From a legal perspective, these inhabitants of the Roman East lived in a legal culture not dominated by Roman law, but by norms from an Hellenistic legal culture. To resolve their legal controversies, these inhabitants of the Roman East, sometimes, asked advice from renowned ...

This liber amicorum is dedicated to Prof. dr. Hildegard Schneider who has shaped the study of European migration and asylum law and was a pioneer in fighting against legal and practical barriers to free movement. Hildegard’s profound impact on the faculty of law of Maastricht University is well noticeable due to her multidisciplinary research and teaching initiatives, the creation of several multidisciplinary institutes and because of her early emphasis on the societal relevance of legal re...