Members conduct research within the fields of financial law and financial regulation (broadly defined). Recent projects have included members hosting the 2023 Financial Law and Regulation conference (jointly with external colleagues from the Universities of Durham and Birmingham), and hosting the EU Commissioner for Financial Services (Mairead McGuinness) in conversation with Dean David Kershaw and Professor Niamh Moloney. Professor Julia Black writes extensively on regulatory issues. Professor Black has a range of external activities including serving as an external member of the Bank of England’s Prudential Regulation Committee and of the Bank’s Financial Markets Infrastructure Board. Professor Jo Braithwaite’s current and ongoing research concerns the use of private law in the international markets. Her 2020 book, The Financial Courts (Cambridge University Press, 2020), won the Main Book prize awarded by the Inner Temple (jointly with Professor Neil Duxbury’s book, The Intricacies of Dicta and Dissent). Professor Eva Micheler is an expert on FinTech and the application of DLT technologies in financial markets.Professor Niamh Moloney specialises in EU financial markets regulation, her recent work includes EU Securities and Financial Markets Regulation (4th ed, OUP, 2023) and she 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 Securities and Markets Authority. Dr Philipp Paech specialises in the regulation and law of financial services, with a particular focus on the regulation of digital finance. He served as the chair of the European Commission’s expert group on FinTech and the group’s recommendations became a foundational document for the EU’s Digital Finance Strategy. Dr Elizabeth Howell has written widely on UK and EU financial markets regulation and her current monograph (OUP) project examines post-Brexit financial market regulation and the evolving UK/EU relationship. Dr Alperen Gözlügöl is working on projects regarding how law and finance can contribute to the sustainability goals of the international community.