In two volumes, this book covers in a comprehensive, internally balanced, systematic and detailed way the field of European Union (EU) banking law and regulation. In three parts, Volume 1 offers a brief introduction to the role of banks in the contemporary financial system and the theory of banking regulation, a thorough analysis of international financial standards which are contained in the sources of public international banking law (and of public international financial law, in general), a detailed presentation of the gradual evolution and the sources of EU banking law, as well as a precise analysis of the law-making process and the key institutional aspects of this branch of EU economic law. The standards and rules adopted and the institutions created in the aftermath of the (2007-2009) global financial crisis and the subsequent euro area fiscal crisis, as well as during the current pandemic crisis are discussed, as appropriate. A detailed analysis of the substantive aspects ofEU banking law will follow in Volume 2.
Christos V. Gortsos is Professor of Public Economic Law at the Law School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. He is also, inter alia, Vice-President of the Board of Appeal of the European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs); Member of the European Parliament´s expert group on banking resolution; President of the Academic Board of the European Banking Institute; Research Partner in the University Research Priority Program Financial Regulation of the University of Zürich; as well as Member and Academic Coordinator of the Committee on International Monetary Law of the International Law Association (MOCOMILA). With his interests revolving around international and EU monetary and financial law, financial market regulation, central banking law and institutional economics, Christos was granted the Fernand Braudel Senior Fellowship (2017-18) at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. During the current Academic Year (2022-23) he is Visiting Scholar at the Faculty of Law of the University of Zürich and Senior Fellow at the Collegium Helveticum in Zürich.
