Europe has suffered many financial crises in recent years. This is particularly true of the eurozone, where the approach of the European Central Bank (ECB) has been very different from that of the US Federal Reserve (FED) and other central banks such as the UK. The crisis in the banking and financial services sectors has triggered a number of crises which feed on each other : the corporate financing crisis, the euro and sovereign debt crisis, the political and social crisis in indebted countries and, more generally, the crisis of legitimacy of the institutions of the European Union. Of all these crises, the European sovereign debt crisis remains the least studied, both from a technical point of view and from the broader perspective - - of its implications for the institutions and economic policy of the European Union.
This working meeting provided an opportunity to explore the causes, measure the impact on the realization of economic and social rights, and consider possible remedies in the broader context of international financial regulation. Particular attention will be paid to the implementation of the principle of financial responsibility on an international scale.
This interdisciplinary seminar brought together a dozen lawyers and economists, mainly from Europe and the United States :
- Ignacio Tirado, Lawyer - Universidad Autónoma, Madrid
- Christoph G. Paulus, Lawyer - Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
- Rodrigo Olivares-Caminal, Lawyer - Queen Mary University, London
- Dania Thomas, economist - Glasgow
- Mitu Gulati, Lawyer - Duke
- Anna Gelpern, Lawyer - Georgetown
- Gaël Giraud, economist - CNRS
- Xavier Ragot, economist - OFCE
- Mathias Audit, lawyer - Paris Ouest Nanterre
- Antonios Tzanakopoulos, lawyer - Oxford
- Andreas Rahmatian, lawyer - University of Glasgow
Organizers : Janis Sarra, jurist - University of British Columbia and Alain Supiot, jurist - Collège de France