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This case study is part of the 2021 REF submission in which 新香港六合彩开奖结果Laws was assessed as No.1 for research excellence in the UK.
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Professor Ian Fletcher was a world-renowned expert on the law of international insolvency and specifically cross-jurisdictional resolution of transnational insolvencies. He joined 新香港六合彩开奖结果in 2001, and was Professor of International Commercial Law until he sadly died in July 2018.
Professor Fletcher's work had great impact, not just in the UK but globally. He was a world-renowned insolvency scholar, with his work informing policy-makers and shaping insolvency law for over 40 years.
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Professor Ian Fletcher鈥檚 research has underpinned initiatives to develop globally applicable non-binding 鈥榮oft law鈥� principles on cross-border insolvency, and guidelines on cooperation and communication between courts, which have:
- Informed judicial support for a 鈥榰niversalist鈥� approach to cross-border insolvency proceedings; and
- Spurred further soft-law initiatives for global court-to-court cooperation, leading to the guidelines 听and 听their 听offshoots supporting 听EU 听law 听reform 听and being 听listed 听as 听references 听for courts and practitioners in practice directions and court procedure in countries including the UK, US, Singapore, the Netherlands, Australia, Korea, the Cayman Islands and Bermuda.听
These developments have facilitated more coordinated and expeditious resolution of cross-border insolvencies, benefiting debtors, creditors, judges, practitioners and the stability of global commerce and investment.
- References to the research
Ian Fletcher, 鈥楾he Quest for Global Insolvency Law: A Challenge for our Time鈥�(2002) 55 Current Legal Problems听427鈥�445.
Ian Fletcher, Insolvency in Private International Law: National and International Approaches (OUP, 2nd听ed 2005 and supplement 2007).
Gabriel Moss QC, Ian Fletcher 听QC and Stuart Isaacs QC (eds.), The EC听Regulation on Insolvency Proceedings: 听A Commentary and 听Annotated Guide (OUP, 2nd ed 2009) (chapters 3 and 4, authored by Ian Fletcher).听
Ian Fletcher and Bob Wessels, Transnational Insolvency: Global Principles for Cooperation in International Insolvency Cases. Report to American Law Institute, 2012, .