Are Legal Systems Converging or Diverging?: Lessons from Contemporary Crises (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783031381799)

Dr. Emilie Ghio is a lecturer in corporate and insolvency law at the University of Edinburgh. She studied law at the University of Strasbourg in France and at University College Cork in Ireland before moving to England and, eventually, Scotland. She is an established and active corporate insolvency and rescue law scholar with an expansive domestic and international research portfolio, which includes numerous and varied publications (monographs, textbooks, peer-reviewed journal articles, conference proceedings, expert technical magazine articles). Emilie is currently working on several internally and externally funded research projects and is engaged with a wide network of UK, European, and international academics, industry representatives and policymakers in insolvency law. She currently sits on the board of the Younger Academic Network of Insolvency Law and is the co-editor of the INSOL Europe Conference Proceedings and Yearbook.

Dr. Ricardo Perlingeiro has over three decades of experience as a Federal Court Judge in Brazil and as a professor of International Law and Public Law. He is currently a professor at Fluminense Federal University (Brazil), as well as a visiting professor at Birmingham City University (United Kingdom) and a visiting researcher at the University of Porto (Portugal). Professor Perlingeiro has published countless books and articles on the topics of international law and public law in Portuguese and other languages, such as Chinese, English, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish. He was the Secretary-General of the Committee that developed the Model Code of International Judicial Cooperation for Ibero-America. He is a member of the International Academy of Comparative Law, International Association of Constitutional Law, International Association of Procedural Law, among other academic institutions.