Riz Mokal
Riz Mokal is a barrister at South Square in London and a legal scholar specialising in insolvency and restructuring, bank resolution, and company, commercial, and trust law.[1] He is an Honorary Professor at University College London and an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Aberdeen School of Law.[2]
Mokal was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 1997. He joined South Square as an Academic Member in 2005 and entered full-time practice in 2016.[3] He held the Chair of Law and Legal Theory at University College London from 2008 to 2016. From 2009 to 2013, he was Senior Counsel at the World Bank and headed its Global Initiative on Insolvency and Creditor/Debtor Regimes. He led the World Bank delegation to the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law from 2009 to 2013 and subsequently participated as an independent expert on the United Kingdom delegation until 2017.[4]
His publications include the 2001 articles “The Authentic Consent Model” in Legal Studies and “Priority as Pathology: The Pari Passu Myth” in the Cambridge Law Journal, and the book Corporate Insolvency Law: Theory and Application, published by Oxford University Press in 2005.[5] He is also a co-author of Financial Institutions in Distress: Recovery, Resolution, and Recognition (Oxford University Press, 2023).[6] His academic work has been cited in decisions of the House of Lords, the High Court of Australia, and appellate courts in England and Wales, New Zealand, Ontario, and Victoria.[7]
References
- ↑ "Riz Mokal". American College of Bankruptcy. Retrieved 22 August 2026.
- ↑ "Dr Riz Mokal". International Insolvency Institute. Retrieved 22 August 2026.
- ↑ "Riz Mokal". The Legal 500. Retrieved 22 August 2026.
- ↑ "Dr Riz Mokal". International Insolvency Institute. Retrieved 22 August 2026.
- ↑ https://academic.oup.com/book/10014
- ↑ "Financial Institutions in Distress: Recovery, Resolution, and Recognition". Oxford Academic. 2023. Retrieved 22 August 2026.
- ↑ "Riz Mokal". American College of Bankruptcy. Retrieved 22 August 2026.
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