Nottingham researcher wins insolvency law prize

Benhajj Shaaban Masoud, who is one of four winners and the only one from the UK, wrote on Theoretical Aspects of the Cross-Border Insolvency Landscape: Issues and Perspectives for Sub-Saharan Africa.  He picked up the Bronze Award after his entry was judged by leading international insolvency academics and practitioners.  The other three prize winners came from Singapore, the USA and Germany.

The insolvency competition recognises original research, commentary and analysis on topics of international insolvency and is open to undergraduate, postgraduate and research students as well as new practitioners from the across the globe.

Benhajj said: “Although a substantial body of literature has developed in recent years in the area of cross-border insolvency, it has been dominated by scholars from the United States and Europe, so a perspective from developing countries is lacking. Therefore, my decision to focus on this topic was partly attributed to my desire to make an original contribution towards an existing research gap.

“The insolvency and corporate research group at Nottingham Law School has immense expertise, competence and experience in this field and the support of this excellent supervision team helped me to significantly develop my research and create a strong paper for this competition.

“The recognition that this award gives me is fantastic, as the III has an international reputation in both academic and practitioner circles and my work has now been commended by a very high profile judging panel. It has also increased my confidence in my area of research and has strengthened my aspirations.”