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Research Assistants
Post-graduate students and others who might be interested in working as a Research Assistant attached to the Project (usually on a part-time basis) should contact Roger McCormick. Please note, however, that such positions only become available from time to time, depending on Project-related activities.
Applications for Academic Courses and Research
Applications for the LLM course and the MPhil PhD Degree in respect of topics within the scope of the Project should be sent in the first place to the Graduate Admissions Office.
PhD admissions enquiries, please contact Rachel Yarham or refer to the PhD Prospective Students page.
Publications
LFMP and Herbert Smith hosted a seminar in December 2010 with HM Treasury on the future of UK financial regulation. The accompanying discussion paper, by Julia Black and Martyn Hopper, discusses the objectives, remit, powers and accountability of the new regulators and sets out key principles to guide the reform.
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Information about the department's arrangements for Visiting Fellowships can be found here.
Herbert Smith, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Gómez-Acebo & Pombo Abogados are the project's Foundation Sponsors. For details of the benefits of Foundation Sponsorship and other sponsorship opportunities, please contact the Project Director, Professor Michael Bridge.
Financial Markets Law and Regulation for Transition Economies
4-6 July 2012
A three day series of seminars in London jointly hosted by the London School of Economics and Political Science and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
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Save The Children Cricket : Anyone who (a) is interested in cricket and (b) would like to volunteer to help the Save The Children charity should please contact Roger McCormick at rsmccormick@btinternet.com
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At the end of the Summer Term 2011, Roger McCormick will step down as Project Director, having founded the Law and Financial Markets Project and served five years in the role. He will be succeeded by Professor Michael G. Bridge. Roger will continue as director of the Sustainable Finance Project.
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Paul Watchman, Visiting Senior Fellow has contributed a chapter on 'social responsibility and fiduciary duties of trustees' in to Paul Thornton and Donald Fleming (ed.) Good Governance for Pensions Schemes (CUP, Cambridge 2011). The work has been described by Lord Hutton of Furness in the FT as "an excellent compendium of advice and best practice" and a "scholarly contribution which [overall] merits a place on the desk of everyone working in the field of pensions government today.
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Paul Watchman has been appointed with Paul Wooley of the LSE [Centre for the Study of Dysfunctional Capital Markets] to the Advisory Group of the Nuffield funded study Protecting Our Best Interests on fiduciary duties and pensions management. The study is a follow-up by Fair Pensions to their 2011 report, Protecting Our Best Interests: Rediscovering Fiduciary Obligation, March 2011. Paul Watchman was also a member of the Nuffield Advisory Group on that study.
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Roger McCormick and Paul Watchman have advised the UNEP FI on fiduciary duties and sustainable finance for their conference, 'Tipping the Balance', to be held in Washington in October 2011.
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Robert Monks made many positive references at the UCGN Conference in Paris in September 2011 to the work carried out by Paul Watchman on fiduciary duties and integrating ESG into investment decision-making contained in two UNEP FI thought leading reports, The Freshfields UNEP FI Report ( 2005) and Fiduciary Duties (2009). The former report holds the record as the most downloaded UN Report in UN history. Both reports may be accessed by the UNEP FI website.
Professor Roger McCormick, director of the
