University of Edinburgh Law School
The University of Edinburgh Law School is one of the oldest and largest law schools in the United Kingdom, founded in 1707 as part of the University of Edinburgh. It offers undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in Scottish, UK, European and international law, and is recognised for its research output and its role in training lawyers, judges and academics. The school is based in Edinburgh and operates as a faculty within the wider university.
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Proposal would shift frozen Russian assets from Euroclear and Clearstream to a new EU custodian
A proposal presented in Brussels by political commentator Hugo Dixon and co-authors would transfer frozen Russian Central Bank accounts from national depositaries — including Euroclear in Belgium and Clearstream in Luxembourg — onto the balance sheet of a special EU instrument acting as custodian. The mechanism, modelled on the post-Saddam transfer of Iraqi Central Bank accounts, is designed to shield depositaries and Belgium from Russian lawsuits while creating legal and financial groundwork for eventually using the assets in Ukraine's interests. Ukrainian Finance Minister Serhiy Marchenko has publicly backed revisiting the use of frozen Russian assets, citing an acute wartime budget deficit.