School of Law CCLFR research seminar with Dr Bolanle Adebola (University of Reading)Info Location Contact More Info Event Information
DescriptionEvent time: 11:00am-12:00pm Title: ‘Justice not Efficiency: Rethinking the Foundations of Corporate Insolvency Law’ Abstract What if insolvency law has been asking the wrong question for forty years? Instead of searching for its 'true' function, perhaps we should have been asking what principle gives it legitimacy in the first place? This presentation advances two principal claims: First, that the dominant insolvency theories implicitly embed a theory of social justice, but these assumptions remain largely unexplored. Second, that social justice is not merely one value among others but the foundational and organising value of insolvency law. From this starting point, it develops a Rawlsian account of justice as a principled basis for shaping insolvency doctrine and institutional design. This approach - Justice-Driven Insolvency Law - opens new theoretical ground as the field looks towards the next generation of theories and reforms.
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Contacta.miglionico@reading.ac.uk More InformationBio Dr Bolanle Adebola is Associate Professor of Law, at the University of Reading. Her research examines the design and effectiveness of corporate rescue systems, balancing stakeholder interests with the need to preserve viable yet distressed businesses within the economy. She combines socio-legal, comparative, and empirical approaches, making significant contributions to academic and policy debates, as well as law reform in both developed and emerging economies. Her work has been published in leading journals including the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, the Journal of Corporate Law Studies, and the International Insolvency Review, amongst others. She has secured funding, amongst others, from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF), the British Council and the University of Reading Research Fellowship. Bolanle is actively involved in various practitioner and policy associations. She is the founder and convener of the Applied Commercial Law Research Hub (ACLRH), an editor for the Encyclopaedia of Banking Law (Insolvency Division) and a grant reviewer for the AHRC. Beyond her academic and professional commitments, she is a founding trustee of Emmanuel Scholars, a charity dedicated to supporting underprivileged children in Nigeria during the critical transition from primary to secondary education. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
