Spooner, Joseph

Mr Joseph Spooner  

Department

Position held

Assistant Professor

 

Experience keywords:

Personal insolvency law; consumer credit regulation; consumer law; household over-indebtedness

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Joseph’s primary field of research is the law relating to consumer/household indebtedness, with a particular focus on personal insolvency law. His doctoral research considered the challenges to traditional personal insolvency principles and doctrines presented in recent decades by the evolving socio-economic and political role of consumer credit and the emergence of the phenomenon of household over-indebtedness.

His research evaluates the extent to which personal insolvency law and policy in countries such as England and Wales and Ireland, as well as at a European Union level, have evolved to meet the conditions of unprecedented levels of household debt in recent decades. As well as evaluating the law in this context, Joseph's work also examines the political economy of personal insolvency law reform. Alongside his works on personal insolvency law, Joseph has also written on consumer credit regulation and the law relating to the enforcement of judgment debts.

Sectors and industries to which research relates:

Financial Services; Law; Policy and Regulatory Bodies

Countries and regions to which research relates:

European Union; Ireland; United Kingdom (England and Wales)

Languages:

French [Spoken: Basic, Written: Intermediate]

Contact Points

LSE phone number:

020 7106 1174

Alt email:

josephspooner@yahoo.com

Publications

2013

Spooner, Joseph (2013) Fresh start or stalemate? European insolvency law reform and the politics of household debt European Review of Private Law, 21 (3). 747-794. ISSN 0928-9801

2012

Spooner, Joseph (2012) Sympathy for the debtor? The modernisation of Irish personal insolvency law Insolvency Intelligence, 25 (7). 97. ISSN 0950-2645

Spooner, Joseph and de Muynck, Michael (2012) Bringing harmonisation home: EU regulatory regimes for unsecured consumer credit and mortgage credit. In: Society of Legal Scholars Annual Conference 2012, 11 Sep 2012, Bristol, UK

Spooner, Joseph (2012) Political economy as an alternative to social and cultural explanations of differences in national personal insolvency laws. In: Law & Society Association Annual Meeting 2012, 5-8 Jun 2012, Honolulu, Hawai‘i, USA

Spooner, Joseph (2012) The challenge to traditional personal insolvency law of the consumer credit society. In: 4th Biennial Conference of the European Consortium on Political Research (ECPR) Standing Group on Regulatory Governance, 27-29 Jun 2012, Exeter, UK

Spooner, Joseph (2012) Long overdue: what the belated reform of Irish personal insolvency law tells us about comparative consumer bankruptcy American Bankruptcy Law Journal, 86 (2). 243-304. ISSN 0027-9048

2011

Spooner, Joseph (2011) A comparative examination of the contrasting characterisations of debtors underpinning national personal insolvency laws. In: Law & Society Association Annual Meeting 2011, 2-5 Jun 2011, San Francisco, USA

Spooner, Joseph (2011) Little Dorrit or the Artful Dodger? Reconstructing the consumer debtor in Ireland’s 'Dickensian' personal debt laws. In: 3rd Irish Society of Comparative Law Annual Conference, 29-30 Apr 2011, Dublin, ROI

Spooner, Joseph (2010) Comparative personal insolvency law and 'bankruptcy tourism' within the European judicial area. In: 2nd Irish Society of Comparative Law Annual Conference, 5-6 Mar 2010, Belfast, UK

Spooner, Joseph (2010) When life hands you a lemon...shifting paradigms in consumer credit regulation and the accelerated rise of the principle of responsible lending after the financial crisis. In: 3rd Biennial Conference of the European Consortium on Political Research (ECPR) Standing Group on Regulatory Governance, 17-19 Jun 2010, Dublin, ROI

2009

Spooner, Joseph (2009) Enforcement of Court Orders (Amendment) Act 2009 In: Clark, Robert, (ed.) Irish Current Law Statutes Annotated. Round Hall, Dublin. ISBN 9781858001333

Spooner, Joseph (2009) The legal options available to Irish defaulters. In: Mutual Learning on Financial Inclusion (MuLFI) workshop no. 10: Debt settlements - inclusion or exclusion?, 28 Sep 2009, Oslo, Norway

Spooner, Joseph (2009) An ounce of prevention, a pound of cure: responsible lending and a preventative legal approach to over-indebtedness. In: International Graduate Legal Research Conference (IGLRC) 2009, 2-3 Jul 2009, London, UK

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Awards

National University of Ireland Travelling Studentship 2010 UCL Faculty of Laws Research Studentship 2010 UCL Global Excellence Scholarship 2010

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