III PRIZE in International Insolvency Studies History

Gold Medal Winner

Joao Guilherme Thiesi da Silva, Columbia Law School, USA
Changes and Convergence of Bankruptcy Law Recent Experience in Brazil

Silver Medal Winner

Maryam Malakotipour, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Reorganization: a system of all for one?

Silver Medal Winner

Dr. Eugenio Vaccari, Royal Holloway and Bedford Colleges, University of London, United Kingdom
A Modular Approach to Restructuring and Insolvency Law - Executory Contracts and Onerous Property in England and Italy

Gold Medal Winner

Warren de Waegh, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands

The Administration of Maritime Liens in a European Insolvency Man Overboard?

Silver Medal Winner

Lydia Tsioli, King's College London, United Kingdom

Viability Assessment in Corporate Debt Restructuring: Optimising the Filtration Effect of the European Directive on Restructuring and Insolvency

Bronze Medal Winner

Paulina Fishman, University of Adelaide, Australia

Insolvency Law To The Rescue – And Zombies Arise

Gold Medal Winner

Ilya Kokorin, Leiden Law School, The Netherlands

Intra-group Finance

Silver Medal Winner

Oriana Casasola, University of Huddersfield, UK

The Harmonisation of Transaction Avoidance in the European Union: A Solution of Compromise

Bronze Medal Winner

Luis Aroche, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico

The Municipal Insolvency Procedure in Mexico As A Necessity

Gold Medal Winner

Jente Dengler, DLA Piper UK, LLP, Brussels

Debt Restructuring in the UK and Spain: Is the Grass Still Greener on the Other Side?

Silver Medal Winner

Fabio Weinberg Crocco, Sullivan & Cromwell, New York

When Deference Makes a Difference: The Role of U.S. Courts in Cross-Border Bankruptcies

Gold Medal Winner

Rosa Maria Rojas Vertiz Contreas, ITAM

Insolvency Proceedings for Natural Persons: Why is Latin America Innovating?

Silver Medal Winner

Damilola Odetola, Kent Law School

Contesting the Trend Towards the Globalization of Laws in Corporate Bankruptcy: The Experience in Africa

Silver Medal Winner

Shuai Guo, Leiden Law School

Cross-border Resolution of Financial Institutions: Perspectives from International Insolvency Law

Gold Medal Winner

Simin Gao, Tsinghua University, School of Law

The U.S. Reorganization Regime in the Chinese Mirror: Legal Transplantation and Obstructed Efficiency

Silver Medal Winner

Aurelio Gurrea-Martínez, Harvard Law School

The Avoidance of Pre-Bankruptcy Transactions: An Economic and Comparative Approach

Bronze Medal Winner

Lynette Janssen, Leiden University

Bail-in From an Insolvency Law Perspective

Gold Medal Winners

David Ehmke and Alfred Lewis, Navigating Scylla & Charybdis

International Arbitration and National Insolvency

Silver Medal Winner

Amir Adl Rudbordeh

An Analysis and Hypothesis on Forum Shopping in Insolvency Law

Bronze Medal Winner

Michael Guihot

Cross-border Insolvency: A Case for a Transaction Cost Economics Analysis

Gold Medal Winner

Robert Arts

Main and Secondary Proceedings in the recast of the Eurpoean Insolvency Regulation

Silver Medal Winner

Xinyi Gong

Can the Day Understand the Night? Brief Introduction Into Problems of the Current Insolvency System in China

Bronze Medal Winner

Andrew Dawson

The Problem of Local Methods in Cross-Border Insolvencies

Bronze Medal Winner

David Ehmke

A Market Approach to Sovereign Debt Restructuring

Gold Medal Winner

Xinyi Gong

A Middle Way – Tailoring the Model Law and the Regulation into China’s Context

Silver Medal Winners

Jochem M. Hummelen

Shaping Bankruptcy. What Form Should It Take?

Jen Johnson and Sarah Coleman

Journey to the Center of the Economic Universe: How the Current U.S. COMI Timing Determination Misses the Mark

Yanying Li

Policy Implication of Postová Tribunal’s Jurisdiction over Sovereign Bonds: Bankruptcy Cram-down and ICSID Arbitration

Gold Medal Winner

Yanying Li

Question the Unquestionable Beauty of A Collective Proceeding for All Sovereign Debt Claims

Silver Medal Winner

Michele Maltese

Court-To-Court Protocols In Cross-Border Bankruptcy Proceedings: Differing Approaches Between Civil Law And Common Law Legal Systems

Bronze Medal Winner

Barry J. Chang

Making A Comedy Of Comity: Analyzing In Re Vitro’s Implications For Cross-Border Insolvency Law

Gold Medal Winner

Robert Kovacs of Clayton Utz, Melbourne, Australia

A Transnational Approach to the Arbitrability of Insolvency Proceedings in International Arbitration

Silver Medal Winner

Dr. Rolef de Weijs of University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Harmonisation of European Insolvency Law and the need to tackle two common problems: common pool & anticommons

Bronze Medal Winners

Fabrice Robert-Tissot of Lévy Kaufmann-Kohler, Geneva, Switzerland

The Effects of a Reorganization on (Executory) Contracts: A Comparative Law and Policy Study [United States, France, Germany and Switzerland]

Elizabeth Dahill of Brooklyn Law School

As Greece Goes, So Goes the E.U.: Defending Europe with a Sovereign Debt Restructuring Framework

Gold Medal Winner

Dr. Sohsuke Takahashi, University of Michigan Law School visiting scholar

The Reality of the Japanese Legal System for Cross-Border Insolvency~Driven by Fear of Universalism

Gold Medal Winners

Awarded to Mohamed Faizal, Singapore

Doing Away with the Emperor's New Clothes: Dispelling the Myth of the Good Faith Filing Requirement under Chapter 11 & Its International Implications.

Jonathan Weiss, New Rochelle, NY

Tax Claims in Transnational Insolvencies: A 'Revenue Rule' Approach.

Bronze Medal Winners

Benhajj Shaaban Masoud, Nottingham Law School, United Kingdom

Theoretical Aspects of the Cross-Border Insolvency Landscape: Issues and Perspectives for Sub-Sahara Africa.

Georg Friedrich Schlaefer, Wiesbaden, Germany

Forum Shopping under the Regime of the European Insolvency Regulation

Gold Medal Winner

Juraj Alexander of Fordham University School of Law, New York, New York

Avoid the Choice or Choose to Avoid?  The European framework for choice of avoidance law and the quest to make it sensible.

Gold Medal Winner

Andy Soh, Jones Day, New York, New York

Chapter 15 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code: An Invitation to Forum Shopping?

Silver Medal Winner

Brendan Driscoll, White & Case LLP, New York, New York

International Comity After Chapter 15: A Residual Right to Recognition?

Gold Medal Winners

Mario Gamboa-Cavazos and Frank Schneider, Harvard University

Bankruptcy as a Legal Process.

Silver Medal Winners

Jennifer D. Morton, Fordham University Law School, New York, New York

Recognition of Cross-Border Insolvency Proceedings: An Evaluation of Solvent Schemes of Arrangements and Part VII Transfers Under Chapter 15.

Maurice Horwitz, Gould School of Law, University of Southern California

The Maximization of an Enterprise’s Value – In the Public Interest: Mexico’s New ‘Law of Business Organization’ and its Interpretation of International Law.

Gold Medal Winners

Jennifer Stam (Canada)
Annika Wolf (Germany)

Bronze Medal Winner

Lakshmi Ravindram (India)

Gold Medal Winner

Irit Ronen-Mevorach (London, England)

The Road to Suitable and Comprehensive Global Approach to Insolvencies within Multinational Corporate Groups

Bronze Medal Winners

John A.E. Pottow (Ann Arbor, USA)

Greed and Pride in International Bankruptcy: The Problem and Proposed Solutions to "Local Interests"

Christopher Eng Chee Yang (Singapore)

Cross-Border Insolvency Issues in Singapore: Should Singapore Adopt the UNCITRAL Model Law on Cross-Border Insolvency?