Introduction

Virág Blazsek is an Associate Professor of Law and Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Law and Practice (CBLP) at the University of Leeds School of Law. She teaches corporate, commercial, and banking law subjects. She writes on banking law, financial regulation, and the digital transformation of financial services. She is a listed arbitrator at the OHADA Common Court of Justice and Arbitration (CCJA), an invited member of the ILA Insolvency Scholars Forum and the UNIDROIT’s Working Group on Insolvency of Insurance Enterprises. Virág has been the Co-Convenor of the Banking and Financial Services Law Section of the Society of Legal Scholars and External Examiner at King’s College London. She has been on the International Monetary Fund’s roster of short-term legal experts since 2023.

Before transitioning to academia, Virág practised banking and business law as Senior In-House Counsel (Team Manager) and member of the board of directors of a wholly owned subsidiary at OTP Bank, Budapest, as well as legal positions with Winston & Strawn LLP, Paris, and the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund, New York.

She defended her doctoral dissertation summa cum laude in 2018. She is the author of Banking Bailout Law: A Comparative Study of the United States, United Kingdom and the European Union (Routledge, UK & US, October 2020); her work is held by over 1,100 libraries worldwide (WorldCat; as of July 2026).

Virág held visiting positions at Emory, the European University Institute, Central European University, Fordham University School of Law, Columbia Law School, and the George Washington University Law School, where she was also a Thomas Buergenthal Scholar and recipient of the Pro Bono Service Award for completing a project at the D.C. Superior Court’s Landlord-Tenant Legal Resource Center.

Virág regularly serves as an ad hoc reviewer for law journals and publishers. She serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence, Risk Regulation, Law, and Policy (Brill). She has successfully completed collaborative international research projects in the United States, the United Kingdom, the European Union, Spain, Italy, and Hungary. She has been a Michael Beverly Innovation Fellow. Check out her project video:

She is fluent in English, Spanish, German, and Hungarian.

QUALIFICATION

• • Juris Doctor and PhD in Law (recognition of S.J.D.), Eötvös Loránd University Faculty of Law
  • LLM and SJD in International Business Law, Central European University
  • LLM in Business and Finance Law, George Washington University Law School
  • LLM in US and Global Business Law, Suffolk University School of Law