Biography
Virág Blazsek is an Associate Professor at the University of Leeds School of Law in England. She received a Juris Doctor and a PhD in Law from Eötvös Loránd University, an SJD from Central European University, and LLM degrees in Business and Finance Law from the George Washington University Law School in Washington, D.C., as well as in U.S. and Global Business Law from Suffolk University Law School. Blazsek writes on international business, banking, and financial law, focusing on legal, regulatory, and policy issues from a comparative perspective. She is the author of Banking Bailout Law: A Comparative Study of the United States, United Kingdom and the European Union (Routledge, 2020). In this book, she reconstructs a regulatory framework that may better serve countries during future financial crises. Blazsek has previously served as a visiting scholar and visiting professor at Fordham University School of Law, Columbia Law School, Hult International Business School, Eötvös Loránd University, and Budapest Business School. Earlier in her career, she practised law for a decade as an attorney in law firms and in the financial sector, including at OTP Bank Plc’s Legal Directorate in Budapest, Hungary, Winston & Strawn's Paris Office, and at the Office of Investment Management of the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund in New York City. Blazsek regularly serves as an ad hoc reviewer for law and economics journals and publishers. She has been involved in numerous research projects in the United States, the United Kingdom, the European Union, Belgium, Spain, Italy, and Hungary. She is a convenor of the Banking and Financial Services subject section at the Society of Legal Scholars (UK & Ireland).