Dr Alperen Gözlügöl

Alperen A. Gözlügöl is an Assistant Professor of Law at the LSE Law School. His expertise and interests include corporate law and governance, capital markets law and financial regulation. His research and teaching outlook is comparative and interdisciplinary. His articles have been published in the leading European journals and US law reviews.

Before joining the LSE in September 2023, Alperen was a postdoctoral researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE and a junior fellow and an affiliated researcher at the Center for Advanced Studies on the Foundations of Law and Finance, Goethe University Frankfurt. He obtained his PhD (summa cum laude) from the University of Hamburg with a cumulative thesis on the law and economics of related party transactions and his LL.M. from the University of Cambridge (first-class honours with a prize-winning thesis). Previously, he read law at Bilkent University, Ankara.

Research Interests

Alperen’s research focuses on corporate law and governance, law and finance, financial regulation, and capital markets regulation. He aims to produce theoretically rigorous and empirically grounded work with international relevance and impact. His research is driven by an interest in developing new theories or empirical insights, re-examining established concepts in novel contexts, analysing emerging phenomena, and identifying gaps and tensions in regulatory, scholarly, and societal responses to pressing issues. More broadly, he is motivated by questions about how law develops, how it ought to develop, and how effectively it achieves its intended goals. Currently, he is working on projects exploring whether and how law and finance can support global sustainability objectives and help address risks arising from profound changes in the planetary ecosystem. His work also examines recent developments in the capital markets of leading jurisdictions and the regulatory and non-regulatory challenges they generate, as well as ongoing transformations in corporate governance.

Publications

Teaching

The below list is subject to change from year to year.

LL4G8 Law of Corporate Finance

LL4FA Corporate Finance: Law

LL4GJ Legal Aspects of Sustainable Finance

LL4FF Legal Aspects of Sustainable Finance

LL4AH Corporate Governance

Engagement and Impact

INSOL Talks podcast: 'Climate change inducated bankruptcies and corporate rescues'(27 March 2024)

Engagement with Net-Zero Tracker (an NGO on climate action) on the research findings on private companies and climate change