Virág Blazsek completed a two-semester Excellence in Teaching in Higher Education Certificate Program at the Central European University during her doctoral training, download the certificate here
Teaching Activities at the University of Leeds School of Law (2021 – Present)
AY 2022-23: Contract Law I-II (L1, LLB); Commercial Law (L3, LLB); International Banking Law (MS); Insolvency Law (MS)
AY 2021-22: Contract Law I-II (L1, LLB); Commercial Law (L3, LLB); International Banking Law (MS)
Serving as the School of Law Study Abroad Coordinator (read a news item about the Incoming Study Abroad Programme at Leeds), and Academic Personal Tutor for undergraduate students and supervising undergraduate theses and postgraduate dissertations, including one PhD dissertation.
Other Teaching Activities (2014-Present)
Visiting Lecturer (2×45-minute lectures on the EU’s Financial Market, Banking Union and Financial Crisis Management Framework; course: Fiscal and Financial Federalism in the EU), LLM in International and European Taxation program (in English), Eötvös Loránd University Faculty of Law, Budapest, Hungary (March 3, 2023; yearly recurring visiting lectureship)
Lecturer (50-minute lecture and 25-minute Q/A) on recent developments in banking law and regulation for visiting students participating in the International Lawyers For Africa (ILFA) One-Day Lecture Series Programme hosted by the Centre for Business Law and Practice at the University of Leeds, UK (Sept. 14, 2022)
Visiting Lecturer (3×45-minute lectures on the EU’s Financial Market, Banking Union and Financial Crisis Management Framework; course: Fiscal and Financial Federalism in the EU), LLM in International and European Taxation program (online; in English), Eötvös Loránd University Faculty of Law, Budapest, Hungary [via MS Teams] (Feb. 11, 2022; yearly recurring visiting lectureship)
Visiting Lecturer & Final Project Jury member (Examiner with marking/grading responsibility), held various online visiting lectures on financial regulation and took part as an examiner (jury member on a panel with Maciej Kisilowski) in the final group exam-project presentations of Executive MBA students (I took part in drafting the exam task, which was a simulation of a lobbying statement for the financial industry in response to a draft far-reaching EU legislation), Regulatory and Policy Environments (International Financial Regulation) course, Executive MBA Program, Central European University, Vienna, Austria (Feb-June 2021)
Guest Lecturer, Book Talk – Banking Bailout Law: A Comparative Study of the United States, United Kingdom and the European Union, Hungarian National Bank Institute, Corvinus University, Budapest [via video call; Modern Trends in Economics (in Hungarian: “Modern irányzatok a közgazdaságtanban”) master’s course, download teaching evaluations here] (designed and held a lecture and took part in the marking/grading) (Feb. 17, 2021)
Guest Lecturer, Corporate Finance course: Bankruptcy, Bank Resolution, Bank Bailout, and the Bail-in, What Business Leaders Need to Know, Hult Business School, Cambridge, MA (via video call for 3 classes of Masters’ Students from 140 countries, designed and held lecture, also took part in the marking/grading of exams) (Nov. 20, 2020), download class outline here, teaching evaluations here, and poster here, or see below: 
Visiting Assistant Professor (Teaching Fellow), Budapest Business School, Budapest: taught two (Banking Law and Competition Law) courses for master’s students (download one of the syllabi here, and download here and here the Course Evaluations by Students) [MS; class size: 20] (Feb-May 2018)
Visiting Professor, Work-in-Progress and Reading Seminars for Faculty and SJD Students: planned, organised, moderated and held about a dozen Doctoral and Faculty Seminars, Central European University, Budapest (2014-2018)
Instructor (as part of a teaching team of two), designed and taught a full one-semester course on Computer-based Legal Research for master’s students in the International Business Law Program (also took part in the marking process with end responsibility, download here the Course Evaluation by Students and download here the Course Information Sheet), Central European University, Budapest (Spring 2015)
Instructor, Designed the Syllabus and taught one section of a WTO-GATT Law course for master’s students in the International Business Law Program, Central European University, Budapest (Spring 2015)
Academic Talks/Webinars/Event Moderations
Speaker, (“The Leeds Financial and FinTech Hub Project”), Singapore Management University Centre for AI and Data Governance (CAIDG), Singapore [online webinar] (2023, TBD)
Speaker, (“Secondary Financial and FinTech Centres and the Financial Sector’s Transformation: A Comparative Analysis of the US, the UK, and Singapore“), Banking and Finance Services Law – FinTech section, 114th Society of Legal Scholars Annual Conference, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK, 27-30 June 2023 (27 June 2023)
Speaker, (“Private Bailouts and Unorthodox Resolutions: A Comparative Analysis of the 2023 Bank Failures“), Ibero-American Institute for Law and Finance 6th Annual Conference, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), Mexico City, Mexico (1-2 June 2023)
Speaker (“Secondary Financial and FinTech Centres: A comparative focus on the Leeds Financial and FinTech Hub (US-UK-Singapore)”), Leeds Financial and Fintech Law Conference 2023, Transforming FinTech in Leeds: Lessons from the U.S. and Singaporean Models, University of Leeds School of Law, Leeds, UK (11 May 2023), see my conference project video below:
Panelist (“AI in the Legal Department – Advantages and Risks”), Breakout Session (‘AI in Law Firms – opportunities and challenges’), LegalTech in Leeds Conference, Leeds University Business School, Leeds, UK (April 26, 2023)
Panelist, “Why does banking regulation repeatedly fail and the financial system remains existentially fragile?” – Workshop on recent banking crises involving Silicon Valley Bank and Credit Suisse, organised by Alliance Manchester Business School and University of Manchester Centre for Law and Business (April 20, 2023)
Speaker, (“The Leeds Financial and FinTech Hub Project”), Centre for Business Law and Practice research talk series, University of Leeds School of Law, Leeds, UK (March 23, 2023)
Invited Speaker, (“Secondary Financial and FinTech Centres and the Financial Sector’s Transformation: A Comparative Analysis of the US, the UK, and Singapore”) (in Hungarian) Legal Science Students Association (“TDK”), Eötvös Loránd University Faculty of Law, Department of Fiscal and Financial Law, Budapest (March 2, 2023)
Invited Speaker, (“A Comparative Systematization of the U.S. and U.K. Bank Bailouts”) Sean Griffith’s advanced business law seminar – Corporate Law Center speaker series, Fordham University School of Law, New York, NY (February 13, 2023)
Invited Speaker, (Book Talk — Banking Bailout Law: A Comparative Study of the United States, United Kingdom and the European Union), Business Law Seminar series, hybrid (in person and online) event, University of Essex School of Law, Colchester, UK (January 25, 2023)
Invited Contributor (Day 1 roundtable discussion and Day 2 paper presentation) (presented paper: “The Fallacy of Bail-In as a Bank Resolution Strategy” (co-authored with Arthur Wilmarth of the George Washington University Law School), Banking & Finance section, SLS/UCL Conference on Financial Law and Regulation, Society of Legal Scholars & University College London Faculty of Laws, London, UK (June 30 – July 1, 2022)
Introduction of Keynote Speaker & Panel Moderator (Banking Insolvency), University of Leeds Inaugural Conference on Recent Developments in Insolvency Law, University of Leeds School of Law, Centre for Business Law and Practice, Leeds, UK [online event] (May 13, 2022):
- Video recording (via the University of Leeds School of Law CBLP website)
- Society of Legal Scholars website post
- Oxford Business Law Blog post
- News post on Central European University’s website
Invited Speaker (Book Talk — Banking Bailout Law: A Comparative Study of the United States, United Kingdom and the European Union), Berger International Speaker Series, Cornell University School of Law, Ithaca, NY [via recorded Webinar](March 1, 2022), see panel details below:
Discussant, Guest Speaker event with Professor Emeritus Arthur Wilmarth, moderated by Dr Steven Montagu-Cairns, University of Leeds School of Law, Centre for Business Law and Practice, Leeds, UK [via Webinar, read the transcript of the discussant-commentary here] (Nov. 17, 2021)
Panel discussion – Banking Bailout Law: A Comparative Study of the United States, United Kingdom and the European Union, Mile End Institute, Queen Mary University of London, London, U.K. (Oct. 6, 2021), see panel details and recording below:
Guest Speaker Lecture – New Financial Regulators Meet the Post-Crisis Reality, Regulatory and Policy Environments (International Financial Regulation) course, Executive MBA Program, Central European University, Vienna, Austria [via video call] (May 11, 2021)
Guest Speaker Lecture – Book Talk, Visiting Professor Seminar for SJD Students and Faculty, Department of Legal Studies, Central European University, Vienna, Austria [via video call, download evaluations here] (March 24, 2021)
Guest Speaker Lecture – Book Talk, Legal Science Students Association (“TDK”), Eötvös Loránd University Faculty of Law, Department of Fiscal and Financial Law, Budapest [via video call, download poster here] (March 4, 2021)
Guest Speaker at the LLM in International Legal Studies Program, Book Talk – Banking Bailout Law: A Comparative Study of the United States, United Kingdom and the European Union, University of Deusto, Bilbao, Spain (Jan. 28, 2021):
Speaker at Financial Regulation Faculty Webinar, Book Talk – Banking Bailout Law: A Comparative Study of the United States, United Kingdom and the European Union, bi-weekly Webinar for Banking Law Faculty from various U.S. Law Schools, invited by Professor David Zaring of The Wharton School, Philadelphia, PA [via video call] (Jan. 26, 2021)
Guest Speaker Lecture, “Finance@CEU expert speaker series” – Book Talk – Bankruptcy, Bank Resolution, Bank Bailout, and the Bail-in: What Business Leaders Need to Know, Central European University, Vienna, Austria [via video call , Jan. 21, 2021], see event details below:
Moderator of the Panel discussion, ‘Investor-State Disputes, International Finance, and Economic Crisis’ at the International Law Weekend 2020 (online due to COVID-19); Panel Members: Anna de Luca (Milan, Italy), Professor Michael Waibel (Vienna, Austria) and David L. Attanasio (Dechert LLP, Washington, D.C.); Organizer: International Investment Law Committee of the American Branch of the International Law Association, New York, NY [via video call, Kluwer Arbitration Blog post about the panel here, full conference program here] (Oct. 24, 2020):
Invited Speaker, Consumer protection law and regulation in the financial sector as a preventive building block of banking bailout Law — A comparative overview of the status quo in the U.S. and the E.U. Conference – The Protection of the Collective Interests of Consumers, Union University Law School and the Institute for Comparative Law, Belgrade, Serbia [via video call, see conference program here] (Oct. 24, 2020): 
Guest Speaker Lecture, Banking Bailout Law: A Comparative Study of the United States, United Kingdom and the European Union, Book Talk for the Business and Finance Law Program at the George Washington University School of Law, Washington, DC [via webinar for Faculty and Business and Finance Law Students] (Sept. 3, 2020)
Guest Speaker Lecture, Banking Bailout Law: A Comparative Study of the United States, United Kingdom and the European Union, Book Talk, OTP Bank Plc, Budapest [via video call for the Legal Department and the Chief Economist] (June 11, 2020)
Invited Guest (Seminar Contribution), Columbia Law School, New York, NY, a guest, contributed to Georges Ugeux’s International Banking and Finance: The Challenges Seminar and reflected on the 2019 financial crisis in Italy (March 8, 2019)
Bail-in or Bailout — What’s Next? The Case of Italy, Workshop Talk with Professor Jeremiah Pam at the George Washington University School of Law, Washington, DC [download poster here] (Feb. 22, 2019)
Invited Guest (Lecture Contribution), Eötvös Loránd University Faculty of Law, Budapest, contributed to Virginia Greiman’s International Business Transactions & Agreements and summarized the main research findings of my doctoral dissertation on bank bailouts (Professor Greiman’s course was taught as part of Boston University’s Executive LL.M. program in International Business Law in Budapest) (June 29, 2018)
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, Public Defense of Doctoral Dissertation at Central European University, Budapest (click here for information on public doctoral dissertation defense, download the poster here) (June 28, 2018): 
Legal-Regulatory Challenges of the Post-2008 Bank Resolution Regimes, a Comparison of the US and the EU, SJD Seminar, Central European University, Budapest (Sept. 20, 2017)
The European Aspects of the Global Financial Developments and the Post-2008 Bank Bailouts, Faculty Workshop Seminar at Suffolk Law School, Boston, MA (Apr. 20, 2017):
Comparative Analysis of the Legal Framework of Bank Bailouts in the US and EU, Visiting Scholars Forum at Columbia Law School, New York, NY (Apr. 12, 2017)
Comparative Analysis of the Legal Framework of Bank Bailouts in the US and EU, Visiting Researchers Seminar at Fordham University School of Law, New York, NY (Nov. 30, 2016)
Professional (Non-Academic) Presentations
Overview of US sanctions laws and regulations from an investor’s perspective, recommendations for compliance, Presentation and Q/A for Legal and Compliance Teams, United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund, Office of Investment Management [via MS Teams video call] (June 30 and July 24, 2020)
The EU’s anti-tax avoidance and tax disclosure rules: impact on the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund, Circulation of One-pager and Q/A call for Operations Team, United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund, Office of Investment Management [via MS Teams video call] (July 13, 2020)
Recent Regulatory Developments in Mortgage Enforcement, Consumer Protection and Competition Law Related to the Financial Sector, Annual Workshop for In-house Counsels at OTP Bank Group, Budva, Montenegro (Sept. 13, 2013)
Legal and regulatory changes related to the financial sector on the following areas: EU Law, Banking and Financial Law, Real Estate Law and Mortgages, Secured Transactions, Consumer Protection and Competition Law, approx. 50 workshops and talks at OTP Bank Plc, Budapest (2007-14)
Other Teaching Activities
Taught several classes in Spanish language on the Constitutional System of Spain at Madách Imre High School, Budapest as part of the Volunteer Teaching Program of Central European University (class size: 20, age of students: 15-17) (2018)
Dr Virág Blazsek 