Dr Virág Blazsek

Dr. Virág Blazsek is a Lecturer in Commercial, Corporate and Banking Law at the University of Leeds School of Law. She received a Juris Doctor degree from the Eötvös Loránd University, a PhD degree from Central European University and LLM degrees in U.S. and Global Business Law from Suffolk University School of Law and in Business and Finance Law from the George Washington Law School in Washington, D.C. where she also served as a Thomas Buergenthal Scholar. Dr. Blazsek’s writes on international business, banking and financial law-related legal, regulatory and policy issues from a comparative perspective. She is the author of the book, “Banking Bailout Law: A Comparative Study of the United States, United Kingdom and the European Union” (Routledge U.S. & U.K., 2020). In her book, she reconstructs a regulatory framework that might better serve countries during future financial crises. Dr. Blazsek has previously been a visiting researcher, visiting scholar, and visiting lecturer at Fordham University School of Law, Columbia Law School, Hult Business School, Eötvös Loránd University, and the Budapest Business School. Earlier, Dr. Blazsek practised law for a decade as an attorney at law firms and in the financial sector; at OTP Bank Plc’s Legal Directorate in Budapest, Hungary and at the Office of Investment Management of the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund in New York City. Dr. Blazsek regularly serves as ad hoc reviewer for law and economics journals and publishers. She has been involved in numerous research projects in the U.S., the U.K., the EU, Belgium, Spain, Italy, and Hungary.