Biography
Virág Blazsek is a Lecturer at the University of Leeds School of Law, UK, where she teaches Corporate, Commercial, and Banking Law and writes on banking and financial regulation. She previously held academic and research roles at institutions including Central European University (2014–2018), Fordham University School of Law (2016), Columbia Law School (2017), Budapest Business School (2018), and The George Washington University Law School (2018–2019).
Currently, she serves as Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Law and Practice (CBLP) at the University of Leeds School of Law. She is also Co-Convenor of the Banking and Financial Services Law Section at The Society of Legal Scholars of the UK and Ireland. She has also been serving as an External Examiner at King’s College London.
Before transitioning to academia, Virág spent a decade practicing banking and business law. Her experience includes roles as in-house counsel and manager at OTP Bank Plc in Budapest, Hungary, and positions with Winston & Strawn LLP in Paris, France, and the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund in New York City.
Virág earned a JD and PhD in Law from Eötvös Loránd University (Hungary), as well as LLM and SJD degrees from Central European University (then Hungary, now Austria). She also holds an LLM in Business and Finance Law from The George Washington University and an LLM in US and Global Business Law from Suffolk University, Boston. She is the author of 'Banking Bailout Law: A Comparative Study of the United States, United Kingdom, and the European Union' (Routledge, 2021), a work held in nearly 600 libraries worldwide (WorldCat.org).