Abstract

The talk addresses the interrelations between financial stability, social stability, and private law. In the 2010s, ensuring financial stability became a fundamental objective in international economic law, prompting a series of reforms in several countries and in the EU. Those developments also had consequences on private law relations, whose regulation now takes into consideration the need to promote macroeconomic objectives. What does this mean for other objectives pursued by private law? The presentation explores law and stabilities, highlighting interrelations, possible trade-offs and the role of private law in mediating between different forms of stability.

Biography

Dr Guido Comparato is a Senior Lecturer in law at Birkbeck, University of London and currently serves as Director of Postgraduate Taught Programmes. He joined Birkbeck as a lecturer in 2017. He holds a Bachelor degree in legal studies with distinction (cum laude) and a M.Sc. in law with distinction (cum laude) in law, both from the University of Ferrara, Italy. He has also studied law at the University of Heidelberg and has been a visiting research student at other universities in Germany.

He received his PhD from the University of Amsterdam, where he was a doctoral researcher within the Centre for the Study of European Contract Law. He has been a visiting researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law of Hamburg. He later joined the European University Institute in Florence as a post-doctoral research associate where he collaborated on a ERC-funded research project on European regulatory private law. He was subsequently a lecturer in commercial law at Brunel University London where he also served as deputy director of postgraduate research. He currently also teaches commercial law at NYU London.

Dr Comparato researches in the fields of comparative, transnational and European private and economic law, considered from an interdisciplinary perspective concerned with the political dimension of law. He has various publications in those areas, including two monographs with Bloomsbury/Hart Publishing. In addition to that, he has advised a number of national and international organisations on issues of consumer, commercial, and international financial law. 

HIGHLIGHTS

• Book: G. Comparato, The Financialisation of the Citizen. Social and Financial Inclusion through European Private Law (Bloomsbury/Hart Publishing, 2018)

• Book: G. Comparato, Nationalism and Private Law in Europe (Bloomsbury/Hart Publishing, 2014)