Members of the Corporate and Financial law hub contribute to the wider discourse through appointments to policy forums, visiting appointments at other academic institutions and as part of policy or global research networks. In so doing, they ensure that the work carried out in the Law School remains at the cutting edge and relevant to the local and global policy debates. The research we carry out is research with impact, generated through connections both to wider academia and beyond in both the public and private sectors.
Starting with academic connections, members of the Corporate and Financial Law Hub are or have been recently visiting fellows or professors at, amongst other places, the European University Institute, the Max Planck Institute in Hamburg and Munich, the University of Hong Kong, Tokyo University, University of Sydney, Columbia Law School, and Fordham University School of Law. Professor Julia Black has been a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. Dr Suren Gomstian is a Research Associate at the Amsterdam Centre for Law and Economics. Eva Micheler was a co-investigator of the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council project ‘Blockchain Technology for Algorithmic Regulation and Compliance’. This project brought together researchers from University College London and the Systemic Risk Centre at LSE. Dr Philipp Paech has been appointed a Distinguished Global Professor of Law at Notre Dame University and a Visiting Professor at the Institute for Law and Finance of Frankfurt University. Edmund Schuster is a Research Associate at the UCL Centre for Blockchain Technologies.
Professor Jo Braithwaite is a member of the editorial committee of the Modern Law Review (‘MLR’). Professor David Kershaw is a member of the editorial board of the Modern Law Review and a former General Editor of the Review. Professor Niamh Moloney is an editorial board member of several journals, including the European Law Review, a co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Financial Regulation, and a Series Editor of the Cambridge University Press Series on International Corporate Law and Financial Market Regulation. Mr Edmund Schuster is a managing editor of the European Company and Financial Law Review.
A number of our group members contribute to the regulatory and policy debates surrounding Corporate and Financial Law. Professor Julia Black is a member of the Prudential Regulation Committee at the Bank of England. Professor Eva Micheler is both a member of the working group on digital assets hosted by the Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien and Erstebank, and a member of the academic working group on intermediated securities and digital assets hosted by the University of Oxford and LSE. Professor Niamh Moloney serves as an independent non-executive director of the board of the Central Bank of Ireland and as a member of the Board of Appeal of the European Supervisory Authorities. Dr Philipp Paech has been appointed member of the joint project of UNIDROIT and the Hague Conference on Private International Law on cross-border holdings and transactions of digital assets and tokens. Dr Paech also served as a chair of the EU Commission’s expert group on regulatory obstacles to financial innovation 2017-2019.
Group members regularly give testimony and submissions to inquiries of the UK Parliament, Law Commissions, the EU Parliament and EU Commission and others. Dr Philipp Paech consults for institutional clients in the EU and the UK. His former clients include the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Banco Santander, BVBA, the European Parliament, the European Commission, and the European Central Bank.