About me

Elizabeth is an Assistant Professor of Law. Before joining the LSE, Elizabeth was a Lecturer at the University of Cambridge. She has a DPhil from the University of Oxford, a LLM from the University of Utrecht, and a LLB from the University of Edinburgh. Before undertaking her PhD, she previously qualified as a solicitor and practised in a City Law Firm.

Elizabeth has been a visiting fellow at the University of Hong Kong (HKU), a visiting researcher at the Max Planck Institute in Hamburg and Munich, and a visiting scholar at Columbia Law School.

Administrative support: Law.Reception@lse.ac.uk

Elizabeth was a member of the Consultative Working Group of the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA)'s Corporate Finance Standing Committee between 2018-2020.

EU financial market regulation and the UK, Capital markets regulation, Corporate law, Corporate finance law.

Law of Business Associations: LL203

UK Corporate Law: LL4CF

Law of Corporate Finance: LL4G8

'The Post-Brexit Accountability of the Financial Conduct Authority: Developing Parliament’s Institutional Capability' Law Quarterly Review (forthcoming)
‘Brexit, Covid-19, and Possible Frameworks for Future UK/EU Financial Governance Cooperation’ (2021) 84 Modern Law Review 1227
‘Post-‘Brexit’ Financial Governance: Which Dispute Settlement Framework Should be Utilised?’ (2020) 83 Modern Law Review 128-162
'Post-‘Brexit’ UK Fund Regulation: Equivalence, Divergence or Convergence?' (2020) 21 European Business Organisation Law Review 611-639
‘Financial Sanctions for Breach of Shareholders’ Duties’ in H Birkmose and K Sergakis (eds), Enforcement of Shareholders’ Duties (Edward Elgar, 2019) (with Jennifer Payne)
‘EU Agencification and the Rise of ESMA: Are its Governance Arrangements Fit for Purpose?’ (2019) 78 Cambridge Law Journal 324
‘The Regulation of Short Sales: A Politicised Topic’ (2018) 12 Law and Financial Markets Review 203
‘An Analysis of the Prospectus Regime: The EU Reforms and the ‘Brexit’ Factor’ (2018) 15 European Company and Financial Law Review 69
‘The Evolution of ESMA and Direct Supervision: Are there Implications for EU Supervisory Governance’ (2017) 54 Common Market Law Review 1027
‘The Creation of a European Capital Market’ in Jukka Snell and Panos Koutrakos (eds), The Research Handbook on the Law of the EU’s Internal Market (Edward Elgar, 2017) (with Jennifer Payne)
‘Short Selling Restrictions in the EU and the US: A Comparative Analysis’ (2016) 16 Journal of Corporate Law Studies 333
‘Regulatory Intervention in the European Sovereign Credit Default Swap Market’ (2016) 17 European Business Organisation Law Review 319
‘Short Selling Reporting Rules in the EU and the US: A Greenfield Area’ (2015) 12 European Company Law Journal 79
‘The European Court of Justice: Selling Us Short?’ (2014) 11 European Company and Financial Law Review 454

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Dr Elizabeth Howell

Assistant Professor of Law

LSE Law School

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