Dr Pierre Schammo
Visiting Senior Fellow
European Institute
Email: pierre.schammo@durham.ac.uk
Biography
Pierre Schammo is a Reader in Law at Durham Law School. Before joining Durham University, he was a lecturer at the University of Manchester, School of Law (2007-2012) and a research fellow in European financial and corporate law at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law in London (2006-2007). He trained as a lawyer in Luxembourg. Pierre completed his D.Phil degree at the University of Oxford (Magdalen College) after graduating from the universities of Leiden, the Netherlands (LL.M., cum laude) and Strasbourg, France (maîtrise en droit privé, mention bien).
Pierre is associated with the Jean Monnet Centre for EU Studies at Keio University (Tokyo). He is a visiting lecturer at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (London) and guest lectured at universities in Japan (Keio University, Tokyo)) and China (Chinese University of Political Science and Law, Beijing). He is a member of the editorial board of The Company Lawyer. He is also a member of the Fonds National de la Recherche of Luxembourg, a funding body which allocates research funding in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (reviewer and chair of the AFR expert panel).
Research Interests
Pierre's research is mainly at the intersection of financial/banking law, EU law and 'law in context'. His most recent work is on financial and banking regulation/supervision in the wake of the financial crisis and the sovereign debt crisis. His research includes work on the European System of Financial Supervision, the Banking Union and the proposed Capital Markets Union.
Publications
Authored book
Schammo, P. (2011). EU Prospectus Law - New Perspectives on Regulatory Competition in Securities Markets. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Book review
Schammo, P. (2013). L Hornuf, Regulatory Competition in European Corporate and Capital Market Law: An Empirical Analysis (Cambridge, Intersentia, 2012). European Law Review 38(5): 723-725.
Schammo, P. (2010). Review of Niamh Moloney's EC Securities Regulation (OUP 2008). European Business Organization Law Review 11(2): 309-315.
Chapter in book
Schammo, P. (2016). Differentiated Integration and the Single Supervisory Mechanism: which way forward for the European Banking Authority?. In Britain Alone! The Implications and Consequences of United Kingdom Exit from the EU. Birkinshaw, P. & Biondi, A. Alphen aan den Rijn: Kluwer Law International.
Georgosouli, A. & Schammo, P. (2016). National Report – United Kingdom (erroneously attributed to Tridimas, T. in the initial print run). In European Banking Union. XXVII. FIDE Congress Proceedings. Bándi, Gy, Darák, P., Halustyik, A. & Láncos, P. Wolters Kluwer. 1.
Schammo, P. (2015). Capital Markets Union and Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs): a Preliminary Assessment. In The new financial architecture in the Eurozone. Allen, F., Carletti, E. & Gray, J. Florence: FIC Press. 137-176.
Schammo, P. (2014). Marchés financiers - émetteurs. In Lexis Nexis, JurisClasseur: Europe Traité. 1-22.
Schammo, P. (2011). Comments on abuse of rights in EU law. In Prohibition of abuse of law a new general principle of EU law?. de la Feria, R. & Vogenauer, S. Oxford: Hart. 193-199.
Schammo, P. (2011). Corporate Finance Law in the UK and the EU. In Equivalence-based Regulation and EU Prospectus Law - the Shadow Regime. Prentice, D. & Reisberg, A. OUP. 493-518.
Journal Article
Schammo, P. (Forthcoming). The European Central Bank’s duty of care for the unity and integrity of the internal market. European Law Review
Schammo, P. (2016). Protecting the City of London? UK challenges before the Court of Justice of the EU. The Company Lawyer 37(1): 1-2.
Schammo, P. (2016). The UK’s five “noes” on EU economic governance. The Company Lawyer 37(7): 201-202.
Schammo, P. (2015). Protecting the City of London? UK challenges before the Court of Justice of the European Union. The Company Lawyer 36(3): 65-66.
Schammo, P. (2014). Protecting the City of London? UK challenge to EU agency law. The Company Lawyer 35(2): 33-34.
Schammo, P. (2014). Protecting the City of London? UK challenges before the Court of Justice of the European Union. The Company Lawyer 35(7): 193-194.
Schammo, P. (2013). Home country control with consent: a new paradigm for ensuring trust and cooperation in the internal market?. Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies 15: 467-501.
Schammo, P. (2012). EU Day-to-Day Supervision or Intervention-Based Supervision: Which Way Forward for the European System of Financial Supervision?. Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 32(4): 771-797.
Schammo, P. (2011). The European Securities and Markets Authority: Lifting the Veil on the Allocation of Powers. Common Market Law Review 48(6): 1879-1913.
Schammo, P. (2008). Arbitrage and abuse of rights in the EC legal system. European Law Journal 14(3): 351-376.
Schammo, P. (2008). Regulating transatlantic stock exchanges. International and Comparative Law Quarterly 57(4): 827-862.
Schammo, P. (2006). The prospectus approval system. European Business Organization Law Review 7(2): 501-523.