Publications

You can also access Virág Blazsek’s papers at the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) and at the Hungarian Scientific Bibliography [in Hungarian: A Magyar Tudományos Művek Tára (MTMT)] or download her MTMT Publication List (as of April 21, 2021) here

Monographs

BANKING BAILOUT LAW: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE UNITED STATES, UNITED KINGDOM AND THE EUROPEAN UNION (Routledge Taylor & Francis, UK, 2021)

A COMPARATIVE CASE STUDY OF MULTILATERAL INTERCHANGE FEE: THE 2009 INTERCHANGE FEE DECISION OF THE HUNGARIAN COMPETITION AUTHORITY, (LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, Germany, 2011), see also on SSRN

Journal Articles (peer-reviewed)

The Fallacy of Bail-In as a Bank Resolution Strategy (with A. Wilmarth) Banking and Finance Law Review (forthcoming 2025)

A systematisation of legal-regulatory risks related to Central Bank Digital Currencies: A comparative analysis of the US, the UK and China (with Victoria Belikoff), Law and Financial Markets Review, see also on SSRN (2025)

Bank Resolution in Hungary, in No. 104 – Resolution Authorities and their institutional settings in EU Member States (eds. Raffaele D’Ambrosio and Diane Fromage), Legal Research Paper Series, Bank of Italy, see also on SSRN (2025)

A Hungarian-American Architect Who Lived the American Dream, Historical Memory, Family, Community & Public History eJournal (2025)

Financial Stability Over the Prompt Repayment of Unlawfully Collected Ex-Ante Contributions: The CJEU’s 10 April 2024 Judgment in Dexia v. SRB (Case T 411/22), Corporate & Financial Law: Interdisciplinary Approaches eJournal (2024)

Conservatorship, quantitative easing, and mortgage spreads: a new multi-equation score-driven model of policy actions (with Szabolcs Blazsek and Adam Kobor), Journal of Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics & Econometrics (2023)

Financial Consumer Protection in the U.S. and the E.U.: A Preventive Building Block of Banking Bailout Law, Proceedings, Union University Law Journal, Serbia (2021), see also on SSRN

The European Aspects of Global Financial Developments, 11 J. Bus. Entrepreneurship & L. 233, US (2018), see also on SSRN

Competition Law and State Aid for Failing Banks in the European Union and its Specific Implications for Central and Eastern European Member States, Yearbook of Antitrust and Regulatory Studies, Poland (2016), see also on SSRN

A Comparative Analysis of the Bad Asset Management Companies of Spain and Hungary: the Devil is in the Details, Queen Mary Law Journal, UK (2016), see also on SSRN

The European Aspects of Global Financial Developments, Létunk Social Science Journal, Serbia (in Hungarian, 2016)

Sovereign Debt-ceiling Rules in the Spanish and Hungarian Constitutions and their Interplay with the Relevant EU Laws, International Conference on Trade, Business, Economics and Law Proceedings, St. Anne’s College, Oxford University, UK (2015) (Click here to download conference proceedings), see also on SSRN

Book Chapters

Research Report on Remedies in Contract Law in Hungary, in REMEDIES IN CONTRACT LAW IN EUROPE (Giliker, Gsell & Ruefner (eds.), Cambridge University Press, UK, forthcoming 2025)
  • Common Core of European Private Law Award for Young Professionals, Turin, Italy (2011)

Research Report on European Cross-border Insolvency Proceedings in Hungary (see acknowledgements of research assistantship on pages 6 and 120), in SECURITIES RIGHTS AND THE EUROPEAN INSOLVENCY REGULATION (Chapter 8: Central and Eastern European Systems – Hungary, Poland and Lithuania, (McCormack & Bork (eds.), Intersentia, Cambridge, UK, 2017)

Research Report (see acknowledgement of research assistantship in note 1 on page 79), in A HAGYATÉKI VAGYONTERVEZÉS — ESTATE PLANNING (Közjegyzői Akadémia Kiadó, Hungary, 2015)

Reports & Impact Publications

Written Feedback by Dr Virág Blazsek in Response to ‘Public Consultation on Guide for Using Generative Artificial Intelligence in the Legal Sector’, Ministry of Law, Singapore, see also on SSRN (2025)

Conference Report: Inaugural Conference on Recent Developments in Insolvency Law Reflections on the Pandemic and Brexit [Dr Virág Blazsek, Dr Oriana Casasola, and Dr Karina Patricio Ferreira Lima (eds.)], Centre for Business Law and Practice, University of Leeds, UK, see also on SSRN (2022)

Research Report, USA Legal Mapping – Study on the Adequacy of the Information to be Disclosed under Article 89(1) of the Capital Requirements Directive IV in the EU for the European Commission via CEPS and Milieu [consultancy] (2021)

Opinion Piece

Regulators’ rhetoric about bank failures doesn’t match their actions, American Banker (May 3, 2024)

Online Articles and Podcasts

Podcast episode on ‘The two forces driving legal tech growth: people and power’, Research and Innovation Podcast series, Leeds University Business School, Listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts or download the podcast transcript. (July 15, 2025)

Chapter on Bank Resolution in Hungary, University of Leeds School of Law (June 30, 2025)

The energy policy dimensions of LegalTech, Research and Innovation Blog, Leeds University Business School, UK (June 19, 2025)

Conference: Recent Developments in Insolvency Law – Reflections on the Pandemic and Brexit (Society of Legal Scholars) (May 13, 2022)

Conference: University of Leeds Inaugural Conference on Recent Developments in Insolvency Law (Oxford Business Law Blog) (with Oriana Casasola and Karina Patricio Ferreira Lima), Singapore Management University Yong Pung How School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series; Bankruptcy, Reorganization & Creditors eJournal (Oct 19, 2022)

CBLP Conference – Developments in Insolvency Law with Dr Virág Blazsek and Professor Tibor Tajti (Central European University, Department of Legal Studies) (May 2, 2022)

Transcript of Commentary on Professor Emeritus Arthur Wilmarth’s Book Talk held at the University of Leeds School of Law’s Centre for Business Law and Practice on Nov. 17, 2021 (transcript published on Dec. 14, 2021)

Event Report: Interdisciplinary Panel Discussion on Banking Bailout Law (with Richard Squire) (Oxford Business Law Blog, Nov. 18, 2021)

Spring 2021 Newsletter of the International Law Association’s American Branch (see page 16, “Publications from Branch Members” section) (2021)

A Comparative Comment on the Banking Bailout Literature, The FinReg Blog, Global Financial Markets Center, Duke University School of Law (2021), see also on SSRN

Banking Bailout Law, Blue Sky Blog, Columbia Law School (2020), see also on SSRN

Banking Bailout Law, Fall 2020 ABILA Newsletter, 13 (2020)

PhD Dissertation

The building blocks of bank bailout law a comparative analysis of bank bailouts in the United States and the European Union with special regard to the United Kingdom, Spain and Hungary, PhD Dissertation (499 pages) (2018)

Master’s Thesis

The 2009 interchange fee decision of the Hungarian competition authority: a comparative case study, Master’s Thesis, Central European University (84 pages) (download Master’s Thesis here, 2010)

Master’s Thesis

Functions of the Hungarian Development Regions in the EU (in Hungarian) (2004)

Academic Papers

The Constitutional System of Spain with Special Regard to Catalonia (in Hungarian) (2002)

Hungary’s Accession to the EU (in Spanish, co-authored with Ruth Sanchez-Garrido) (2002)

The Governmental System of Canada with Special Regard to Quebec (in Hungarian) (2000)