Publikationen Prof. Dr. K. Alexander
Books
Edited Books
Peer-Reviewed Academic Articles
Major Commissioned Reports and Parliamentary Evidence
Book Chapters
Some Professional Articles (Practitioner-reviewed)
Editorial
Books
- K. Alexander & R. Dhumale & J. Eatwell (2006) Global Governance of Financial Systems: The International Regulation of Systemic Risk (Oxford University Press).
- K. Alexander (2009) Economic Sanctions: Law and Public Policy (London: Macmillan/Palgrave).
- K. Alexander & L. Linklater & B. Rider (2009) (2nd edition) Market Abuse and Insider Dealing (London: Butterworths).
Edited Books
- K. Alexander & R. Dhumale (2011) Research Handbook on International Financial Regulation (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar) (15 chapters, 358 pages).
- K. Alexander & N. Moloney (2011) Law Reform and Financial Markets (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar).
- K. Alexander & M. Andenas (2008) The World Trade Organisation and Trade in Services (Leiden: Brill/Martinus/Nijhof) (22 chapters, 968 pages).
Peer-Reviewed Academic Articles
- K. Alexander (Oct 2011) 'Rebuilding International Financial Regulation and Basel III' Journal of Banking Law and Banking (JBB) 23 (5) 337-344.
- K. Alexander (May 2011) ‘Reforming European Financial Supervision’ ERA-Forum 12 (2) 229-252.
- K. Alexander & E. Ferran (Dec 2010) ‘Can Soft Law Bodies be Effective? The Special Case of the European Systemic Risk Board’ The European Law Review (6) 751-777.
- K. Alexander (Sep 2010) ‘International Regulatory Reform and Financial Taxes’ Journal of International Economic Law 13 (3) 893-912.
- K. Alexander (2009) 'Global Financial Standard Setting, the G10 Committees, and International Economic Law' Brooklyn Journal of International Law 34 (3) 861.
- K. Alexander (2009) ‘Extra-territorial Jurisdiction and US and EU Income Tax Policy: The Case of the Savings Tax Directive’ Swiss Review of Business and Financial Law (6) 463-482.
- K. Alexander (2008) ‘International Monetary Fund’s Role in Sovereign Liquidity Crises’ Current Issues in Monetary and Financial Law (Washington DC: International Monetary Fund Law Department) 5 131-190.
- K. Alexander (2007) ‘The GATS and Financial Services: the Role of Regulatory Transparency’ Cambridge Review of International Affairs 20 (1) 111-133.
- K. Alexander & E. Ferran & H. Jackson & N. Moloney (2006) 'Transatlantic financial services regulatory dialogue.' European Business Organization Law Review, 7 (3) 647-673.
- K. Alexander (January 2006) ‘Corporate Governance and Banks: the role of regulation in addressing the principal-agent problem’ Journal of Banking Regulation (London: Palgrave) 17-40.
- K. Alexander (2004) ‘UK Corporate Governance and Banking Regulation: The Regulator’s Role As Stakeholder’ American Society of Comparative Law and Stetson University College of Law 33 (3) 991-1034 (published in the 2003 Proceedings of the American Society of Comparative Law in its Symposium on Comparative Corporate Governance).
- K. Alexander (2003) ‘International Developments in Terrorist Finance’ in The Funding of Terror: The Legal Implications of the Financial War on Terror’ in R. Cranston (ed.) Symposium Issue of the Journal of Money Laundering Control 6 (3) 201, 212-213 (cited by the International Monetary Fund in its official report entitled 'Suppressing the Financing of Terrorism' (2003) IMF Legald Department p. 22, fn. 60).
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/nft/2003/SFTH/index.htm - K. Alexander (2002-03) ‘The Development of a Uniform Choice of Law Rule for the Taking of Collateral Interests in Securities’ Part(s) 1 & 2 Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law 17 (11) 436-442 and 18 (2) 56-64.
- K. Alexander (2002) ‘United States Financial Sanctions and International Terrorism’ Journal of International Banking and Financial Law 17 (5) 80-88 (part 1) and 213-222 (part 2) (London: Butterworths) (cited in Mann's The Legal Aspect of Money Chap 15 6th ed. OUP).
Major Commissioned Reports and Parliamentary Evidence
- European Parliament’s
Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee (ECON)
Commissioned Report. 'Derivatives, central counterparties, and trade repositories' (Feb 2011).
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/activities/committees/studies/download.do?language=de&file=3405 - European Parliament’s
Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee (ECON)
Commissioned Report. 'Market Impact of an Orderly Sovereign Debt Restructuring' (Aug 2010). IP/A/ECON/FWC/2009-043/LOT1/C2/SC1. Arguing for the use of collective action clauses in all EU sovereign bond contracts.
http://www-cfap.jbs.cam.ac.uk/publications/downloads/2010_alexander_market.pdf - European Parliament’s
Special Committee on the Financial, Economic and Social Crisis (CRIS)
Commissioned Report. ‘Crisis Management, Burden Sharing and Solidarity Mechanisms in the EU’ (May 2010) (with Eatwell, Persaud & Reoch). IP/A/CRIS/ST/2010-02.
http://www-cfap.jbs.cam.ac.uk/publications/downloads/2010_alexander__eatwell_persaud_reoch_crisis.pdf - European Parliament’s
Special Committee on the Financial, Economic and Social Crisis (CRIS)
Commissioned Report. ‘Which Future Model for Europe?’ (Feb 2010). IP/A/CRIS/NT/2010-08.
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/document/activities/cont/201103/20110324ATT16356/20110324ATT16356EN.pdf - House of Commons Treasury Committee
Invited written and oral evidence on EU Commission’s proposed Regulations creating a European Systemic Risk Board and European Financial Supervisory Authorities (Nov 2009). See ‘The Committee’s Opinion on proposals for European financial supervision’, Sixteenth Report of Session 2008-09. See Alexander’s written evidence in Report, pp. 29-34, 46-50. - European Parliament’s
Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee (ECON)
Commissioned Report. ‘Clearing and Settlement in the EU’ (August 2009) (IP/A/ECON/IC/2009-001).
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/activities/committees/studies/download.do?language=en&file=27095 - House of Commons Treasury Select Committee
Invited oral and written evidence. ‘Banking Crisis and Banking Regulation’ (23 June 2009) oral and written evidence cited throughout the report. - House of Lords Select Committee on Economic Affairs
Invited written evidence. ‘UK Banking Regulation and Supervision’ (10 February 2009).
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200809/ldselect/ldeconaf/101/10110.htm - European Parliament’s
Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee (ECON)
Commissioned Report. ‘Financial Supervision and Crisis Management in the EU’ Alexander, K., J. Eatwell, A. Persaud & R. Reoch, Parliament’s Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee (IP/A/ECON/IC/2007-069). Oral evidence on 5 May 2008.
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/activities/committees/studies/download.do?language=en&file=26588 - UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Special Adviser on economic sanctions. Invited oral and written advice to UK FCO & Sir John Sawers, then-UK Ambassador to the United Nations (9 July 2007). European Commission special consultant (2007-2009) on Technical Assistant project for Basel II implementation in China, bank corporate governance, and related capital market regulation. - House of Lords Select Committee on Economic Affairs
Invited written and oral evidence (June/July 2006) on The Impact of Economic Sanctions at a special meeting of the full Committee on 4 July 2006. See Alexander’s written evidence and paper (15 June 2006) for the Committee at
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200506/ldselect/ldeconaf/ldeconaf.htm
and oral evidence before the full Committee (4 July 2006) at
http://www.parliament.uk/documents/upload/Alexander,%20Kern%2020060629.doc
Oral and written evidence cited favourably in Select Committee Final Report ‘The Impact of Economic Sanctions’ (May 9, 2007). For specific text citations, see pages 12, 18 and 19 and at footnotes 4-8, 14. See
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200607/ldselect/ldeconaf/96/96i.pdf - European Parliament's Select Committee of Inquiry into the crisis of the Equitable Life Assurance Society.
Invited oral evidence and a written report on 29/30 November 2006. Alexander’s analysis of the inadequacy of UK financial regulation in the 1980s and 1990s is adopted by the Committee in its Final Report on the crisis at page 161 and the benefits of EU legislation for the UK financial sector at page 134. His assessment of the gaps in EU investor and policyholder protection law is cited favourably (pp. 285-86), and his proposal that the EU adopt a version of US-style class action lawsuits to be used by EU investors and policyholders is cited as the basis for further EU legislative reform in this area (pp. 302-303). See Final Report and cited references at:
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/comparl/tempcom/equi/report_en.pdf - The International Monetary Fund, Financial Stability and Law Department
Invited paper and lecture/seminar presentations (23-24 October 2006) to the International Monetary Fund’s Biennial Law Financial Stability Conference. Two papers, one plenary lecture (23 October 2006) and one seminar presentation (24 October 2006) entitled respectively: ‘International Economic Law and Financial Stability: The Role of the Lender of Last Resort’, and The UK Legal Framework of Financial Stability and the Bank of England. See
http://www.imf.org/external/np/seminars/eng/2006/mfl/index.htm
Book Chapters
- K. Alexander (2011) 'Sovereign Debt Restructuring in the EU: Lessons from the Recent Crisis' in Rolf Sethe et. al. Kommunikation - Festschrift für Prof Rolf Weber zum 60. Geburtstag 803-821.
- K. Alexander (2009) ‘International Economic Law and the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision: Alternative Forms of International law-making’ Chapter 14, in K. Wellons & T. Komori, Public Interest Rules of International Law: Towards effective implementation pp. 186-231.
- K. Alexander (Nov 2008) ‘The Fund's Role in Sovereign Liquidity Crises' in: Current Developments in Monetary and Financial Law 5 Chapter 6 (Washington DC: IMF).
- K. Alexander (2008) ‘The GATS and International Financial Regulation’ in K. Alexander & M. Andenas, The World Trade Organisation and Trade in Services (Leiden: Brill/Martinus Nijhof).
- K. Alexander (2007) ‘International Economic Law and the Lender of Last Resort’, in (eds. Sir Basil Markesinis, Professor Silvia Diaz Alabart, Professor Michel Grimaldi, Professor Hans Micklitz, 'Principles and New Developments of Private Law. Liber Amicorum for Guido Alpa', pp. 37-84 (London: British Institute of International and Comparative Law).
- K. Alexander (2007) ‘US Prudential Regulation and Bank Holding Companies’ in Mayes, D.G. and Wood, G.W. (eds.): The Structure of Financial Regulation (Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge) pp.155-171.
- K. Alexander (2003) ‘Private Law approaches to Enhancing Financial Stability: The Hague Convention on Indirectly Held Securities and European Union Collateral Directive’ in M. Andenas & Y. Avgerinos, Financial Markets in Europe: Towards a Single Regulator’ (London: Kluwer Law International).
- K. Alexander (2003) ‘United States Anti-Money Laundering Law: Corporate Compliance and Liability Issues’ in T. Graham, ed., Butterworths International Guide to Money Laundering Law and Practice (2nd edition)(London: Butterworths), pp. 628-664.
- K. Alexander (2001) ‘The Need for Efficient International Financial Regulation and the Role of a Global Supervisor’ in E. Ferran & C.A.E. Goodhart (eds.) The Challenge of Financial Regulation in the Twenty-First Century (Oxford: Hart Publications) Chapter 17, pp. 273-297.
Some Professional Articles (Practitioner-reviewed)
- K. Alexander (April 2009) ‘Bank Resolution Regimes: Balancing Prudential Regulation and Shareholder Rights' Journal of Corporate Law Studies 9 (1) 61-93.
- K. Alexander (2004-present) ‘US Anti-Money Laundering Law and the Financial Sector’ Butterworths Looseleaf Guide on Money Laundering Law and Practice Issue 12, 321-370 (editor and author).
- K. Alexander (2002) ‘Extraterritorial United States Banking Regulation and International Terrorism: The Patriot Act and the International Response’ Journal of International Banking Regulation 3 (4) (London: Henry Stewart) 307-326.
Editorial
- Journal Editorial Boards: the Company Lawyer (London: Sweet & Maxwell);
- Editor of Butterworths Guide on Money Laundering Law and Regulation (London: Butterworths);
- Article Submissions Referee Cambridge Journal of Economics 2000-2004.


