Book Launch: 'Liability of Financial Supervisors and Resolution Authorities’

On Friday 21 October 2022 the book ‘Liability of Financial Supervisors and Resolution Authorities’, published by Oxford University Press, will be launched.

This is an in-person event organised by the Commercial Law Centre at Harris Manchester College and The Radboud Business Law Institute at Radboud University, Nijmegen. 

Since the global financial crisis of 2008, there has been an increase in claims by clients, shareholders, depositors, and bondholders of financial firms against financial supervisors and resolution authorities for inadequate supervision or resolution action. Liability of Financial Supervisors and Resolution Authorities is the first book to offer a thorough and systematic analysis of the liability regimes that apply to financial supervisors and resolution authorities at the EU level (particularly relevant since the European Banking Union came into operation in 2014), at the level of individual EU Member States, as well as in other major jurisdictions worldwide, including the UK.

1:30 Welcome and introduction 
Professor Kristin van Zwieten (Chair of Sessions) Professor of Law and Finance; Gullifer Fellow and Tutor, Harris Manchester College; Director of the Commercial Law Centre, Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford 

COMPARATIVE LAW PERSPECTIVE 

1:45 General Overview
Professor Danny Busch Professor of Financial Law and Founding Director of the Financial Law Centre, Radboud University, Nijmegen; Senior Research Fellow, Harris Manchester College, and Fellow of the Commercial Law Centre, Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford 

2:15 Comments From a Comparative Law Perspective 
Professor Simon Whittaker
Professor of European Comparative Law; Fellow and Tutor, St. John’s College, University of Oxford 

UK LAW PERSPECTIVE 

2.45 Liability of the UK Financial Conduct Authority 
Professor Gerard McMeel QC 
Professor of Commercial Law and Director of the Centre for Commercial Law and Financial Regulation, University of Reading; Door Tenant at Quadrant Chambers, London 

3.15 Comments from a UK Tort Law Perspective 
Professor Ewan McKendrick 
Emeritus Professor of English Private Law, University of Oxford 

EU LAW PERSPECTIVE 

3.45 Liability of the European Supervisory Authorities 
Professor Christos V. Gortsos 
Professor of Public Economic Law at the Law School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens; Vice-President of the Board of Appeal of the European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) 

4.15 Comments from an EU Tort Law Perspective 
Professor Dorota Leczykiewicz 
Associate Professor of Law; Fellow, St. Peter’s College, University of Oxford 

4.45 Closing remarks by Professor Kristin van Zwieten 

5.00 Drinks