Eu Law After the Financial Crisis

The financial crisis has literally stress tested the European Union and indeed continues to do so. It has already laid bare many fundamental issues and conundrums of the European Union and the European Unions legal system that had been waiting to be seriously addressed for quite a number of years.This book examines the consequences of the financial crisis for European Union law not only with respect to various specific areas of the law, namely contract law, company law, capital markets law, banking law, competition law, tax law, insolvency law, but also with respect to fundamental issues regarding the role and function of the European Union and European law.

Carlos Esplugues is Professor of Private International Law and International Trade Law at the University of Valencia. He holds LLMs from the University of Valencia (1982) and Harvard University (1985), an MSc from the University of Edinburgh (1983) and a PhD from the University of Valencia (1983). Professor Esplugues has been President of the Spanish Association of Professors of International Law and International Relations (Asociación Española de Profesores de Derecho Internacional y Relaciones Internacionales) and he is currently the Spanish Delegate to the UNCITRAL ’ s WG II – Dispute Settlement. Professor Esplugues is the co-author of two leading handbooks on International Trade Law and Private International Law in Spain and has hundreds of publications in these two fields, with a special reference to international dispute resolution in the most prestigious journals and editorials. He is regularly invited as a distinguished visiting professor to many leading universities of Europe, Asia and Latin America. He also acts as an international arbitrator and mediator.