Legal Accountability in EU Markets for Financial Instruments: The Dual Role of Investment Firms - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 019284928X ISBN 13: 9780192849281

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2022

Synopsis

The proper functioning of the EU financial market is protected by public actors - both national and supranational - responsible for rulemaking and supervision of investment firms and other private actors. At the same time the effectiveness of the EU legal system requires vigilance from private actors such as investment firms but also their clients, invoking their rights before national authorities and courts. This means that investment firms have a dual role within the system, turning them into subjects of control and enforcement but also agents in the maintenance of the rule of law.

Legal Accountability in EU Markets for Financial Instruments brings together a group of scholars with expertise from different legal disciplines but a shared interest for the EU internal market and the way it develops. It integrates a modern study of the form and function of EU rulemaking in the internal market after the financial crisis. The book includes an evaluation of core aspects of rulemaking in the financial market and that way provides a cross-cutting treatment of EU law. The focus of the book is set on the regulatory framework in MiFIDII and MiFIR and thematic questions around legal mechanisms for accountability and the role of investment firms in the operation of those mechanisms. It further discusses the implications for EU law and the EU legal system and gives readers a thorough understanding of the concept of accountability through its own findings.

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About the Author

Carl Fredrik Bergström is Professor of European Law at Uppsala University. He has a background as researcher at the European University Institute in Florence, lecturer at Stockholm University and Head of Legal Research, later Director, at SIEPS, the Swedish Institute for European Policy Studies. His primary areas of expertise are EU constitutional law and rulemaking systems, comparative constitutional law and legal methods.

Magnus Strand is Associate Professor of European Law at Uppsala University and Director of research in the law and business unit at the Department of Business Studies. He also acts as project leader for two research projects on the use of artificial intelligence in the financial markets (FinTech and RegTech, respectively). These projects are funded by The Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program - Humanities and Society (WASP-HS). His general research background in commercial EU law and civil law. Doctoral thesis and other previous output have mainly concerned issues that may arise in the interface of EU law and national law.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 019284928X
• ISBN 13: 9780192849281
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 368
• Editor: Bergström Carl Fredrik, Strand Magnus