Reinhard Bork was Professor of Law at the Universities of Bonn (1989) and Hamburg (1990-2022), where he held a chair for Civil and General Procedural Law. He has held visiting positions at the University of Oxford and Radboud University Nijmegen, and has also served as a judge at the Upper State Court (Court of Appeal) in Hamburg. He has broad experience as an arbitrator in national and international cases since 1994. Professor Bork has published widely in both German and English on civil law, corporate law, and insolvency Law.

Renato Mangano is a Full Professor of Commercial Law at Palermo University. An External Expert of the European Commission in Insolvency Law, he has been a visitor of various Universities or Research organizations, including the University of Cambridge, Hamburg University, the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law (Hamburg), the University of Oxford, and University of International Business and Economics (Beijing). His academic interests include insolvency law, company law, and the legal aspects of digital assets.

• 1: Renato Mangano: What is Insolvency Law?


• 2: Shuguang Li: Distress, Insolvency, and the Likelihood of Insolvency


• 3: Jennifer Payne: Debt Restructuring Outside Formal Insolvency Proceedings


• 4: Johannes Richter: Formal Insolvency Proceedings


• 5: Edward J. Janger: Security Rights and Creditors' Priority and Ranking: Realisable Priority in Rescue


• 6: Reinhard Bork: Transactions Avoidance Rules


• 7: Renato Mangano: Directors' Duties in the Vicinity of Insolvency. Disqualification. Piercing the Veil


• 8: Edward J. Janger: Corporate Groups in Rescue


• 9: Reinhard Bork: Cross-Border Insolvency Law


• 10: Günter Kahlert: Aspects of Tax Law


• 11: Laura Carballo Piñeiro: Aspects of Labour Law