Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Why and How Society Seeks to Limit Bank Failures
3. The Emergence of Bank-Specific Insolvency Proceedings
4. Creditor Priority in General Insolvency Proceedings
5. Creditor Priority in the Winding-Up of Banks
6. Creditor Priority in Bank Resolution
7. The Rationales of Bank-Specific Creditor Priority Rules
8. Administrative Law and Creditor Priority: The Case of MREL (Minimum Requirements for Own Funds and Eligible Liabilities)
9. From Meta-Regulation to Technocratic Fine-Tuning: The Phases of Creditor Priority in Bank Insolvency Proceedings
10. What is the Future of Bank-Specific Creditor Priority Rules?

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Following reform in the wake of the global financial crisis, this book provides the first comprehensive treatment of creditor priority in European bank insolvency law.

About the Author

Sjur Swensen Ellingsæter is Associate Professor at the Department of Law and Governance, BI Norwegian Business School, Norway.