Law and Finance Workshop
About the Group
The Law and Finance Workshop provides a forum for research students and Faculty to meet and discuss common interests, and, in particular, for the presentation and discussion of early stage work in progress. The goal is to provide a supportive and constructive environment for feedback and networking.
The Workshops are run in association with the UCL Faculty of Laws, the Department of Law at the LSE and the Department of Law at Queen Mary University of London, each of which host a workshop each term, providing further opportunity to discuss research with peers. Two workshops per term are usually held in Oxford.
Sessions will consist of informal work-in-progress presentations from Faculty members and research students working in fields related to law and finance.
Convenor: Anne Currie
Senior member: John Armour
Papers and other downloads
Serrano Velarde - Bankruptcy Law and the Cost of Finance
Awrey - Supply Side Theory of Financial Innovation
Frey(2) - Patent Information and Corporate Credit Ratings
The Life Cycle of Family Ownership
Financial Regulation: A Game Theory Approach
Financial Regulation: A Game Theory Approach - presentation
Prabhakar: Basel Capital Rules and Hedge Fund Regulation
John Armour: Bank Resolution Regimes: Designing the Right Model
BIS Consultation Paper: Short Termism and Corporate Governance
Compensating Market Value Losses
Disciplining the Corporation through Tort Liability and Disability
Costs and Benefits of Regulating Sovereign Wealth Funds: abstract
Forthcoming Group Events
May 2012
Wednesday 30 May 2012 Week 6
- "Private equity backed IPOs" and "Recent Developments in the Law of Set Off"
- Speaker: Howard Jones and Ruediger Stucke, Senior Research Fellow in Finance and Research Fellow in Finance and Economics, Saïd Business School and Louise Gullifer, Professor of Commerical Law, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford
Oxford Law Faculty The Cube at 12:00
Previous Group Events
May 2012
Wednesday 9 May 2012
- "Meta-Contracts, Corporate Governance and Regulation" and "The Regulation of Listed Firms in Latin America
- Speaker: Alan Morrison and Jose Miguel Mendoza, Professor of Finance, Said Business School and Faculty of Law, University of Oxford
Oxford Law Faculty Seminar Room F at 12:00
March 2012
Thursday 8 March
- Holding bank directors accountable: the role of boards, institutional shareholders and micro-prudential regulators; Tug of War between an open market for corporate control and a long-term vision for UK firms: Revisiting the advisory role of target directors during a UK bid post the takeover of Cadbury's plc; What’s (un)problematic about corporate power?
- Speaker: Andreas Kokkinis, UCL Faculty of Laws, Georgina Tsagas, QMUL School of Law and Marc Moore, UCL Faculty of Laws
London Seminar Room 6, Graduate Wing, UCL, Bentham House, Endsleigh Gardens, London WC1H 0EG at 15:30
Tuesday 6 March
- "Private equity backed IPOs" and "Private Equity Control over Portfolio Companies"
- Speaker: Howard Jones and Ruediger Stucke, Senior Research Fellow in Finance and Research Fellow in Finance and Economics, Saïd Business School and Jeremias Prassl, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford
Oxford Law Faculty The Cube at 13:00
February 2012
Tuesday 14 February
- "Contracting Co-Determination: An Analysis of Bargaining over Co-Determination Rules for a Societas Europaea" and "International Corporate Group Rescue and Insolvency: Principles, Models, Reform"
- Speaker: Horst Eidenmuller, Professor of Private Law, German, European and International Company Law, Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich and Felix Steffek, Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
Oxford Law Faculty The Cube at 13:00
November 2011
Tuesday 15 November 2011
- "Corporate Law and Externalities" and "The Causal Effect of Bankruptcy Law on the Cost of Finance"
- Speaker: John Armour, Hogan Lovells Professor of Law and Finance, University of Oxford and Nicolas Serrano-Velarde, Research Fellow, Centre for Business Taxation, University of Oxford
Oxford Law Faculty The Cube at 12:00
October 2011
Tuesday 18 October
- "Toward a Supply-side Theory of Financial Innovation" and "Patent Information and Corporate Credit Ratings: An Empirical Study of Patent Valuation by Credit Rating Agencies"
- Speaker: Dan Awrey, University Lecturer in Law and Finance, University of Oxford and Carl Frey, Visiting Doctoral Student, Oxford Intellectual Property Research
Oxford Law Faculty Seminar Room D at 12:00
June 2011
Tuesday 7 June
- "Risk-Decoupled Shareholders in Corporate Governance" and "A Rejected Transplant: explaining the failure of company liquidation law in India"
- Speaker: Wolf-Georg Ringe, DAAD Lecturer in Law, University of Oxford and Kristin van Zwieten, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford
Oxford Law Faculty History of the Book Room, at 12:00
May 2011
Tuesday 24 May
- "Taxing Banks: the role of taxation in post-crisis bank regulation" and "EMU and its Impact on Corporate Governance"
- Speaker: John Vella, Senior Research Fellow, Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation and Michael Galanis, RCUK Academic Fellow in Corporate Governance, University of Leeds
Oxford Law Faculty Room 19 at 12:00
Tuesday 17 May
- Speaker: David Kershaw and Matteo Solinas, Professor of Law, London School of Economics and Lecturer in Corporate and Finance Law, University of Glasgow
London School of Economics Moot Court Room, 7th Floor, New Academic Building at 14:00
March 2011
Tuesday 1 March
- Employment Policies in Family Managed Firms
The Life Cycle of Family Ownership: International Evidence
- Speaker:
Nicolas Serrano-Velarde, Centre for Business Taxation, University of Oxford
Colin Mayer, Peter Moores Dean, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
Oxford Law Faculty Room 19 at 12:00
February 2011
Tuesday 1 February
- Law and Finance Workshop
- Oxford Law Faculty Room 19 at 12:00
November 2010
Tuesday 30 November 2010
Bank Resolution Regimes: Designing the Right Model?
Establishing an International Registration System for the Assignment of Receivables
- Speaker: John Armour, University of Oxford and Woo-jung Jon, DPhil student, University of Oxford
Oxford Law Faculty Room 19 at 12:00
Tuesday 23 November
Short Termism and Corporate Governance: The Government's Consultation Paper
- Speaker: Professors John Armour, Paul Davies and Colin Mayer, University of Oxford
Oxford Law Faculty Law Board Room at 12:00
Tuesday 16 November
Compensating Market Value Losses: Rethinking the Theory of Damages in a Market Economy
Disciplining the Corporation through Tort Liability and Disability
- Speaker: Professor Steven Schwarcz, Stanley A. Star Professor of Law and Business, Duke University; Leverhulme Visiting Professor of Law, Oxford University (Michaelmas 2010) and Joshua Getzler, University of Oxford
Oxford Law Faculty Room 19 at 12
October 2010
Thursday 28 October
- The Costs and Benefits of Regulating Sovereign Wealth Funds
Private Enforcement of Directors' Duties: Derivative Actions as a Global Phenomenon - Speaker: Georges Kratsas, UCL, and Mathias Siems, University of East Anglia
London
May 2010
Thursday 20 May
- Corporate & Financial Law Reading Group
- Speaker: Andrea Polo & Dan Awrey, Oxford University
Oxford Law Faculty The Senior Common Room at 12:00
Thursday 13 May
- Corporate and Financial Law Reading Group
- Speaker: Edmund Schuster, Vasiliki Stergiou, and Dabrowka Grodz
Lincoln's Inn B1 at 14:00
March 2010
Tuesday 9 March
- Corporate law rules for the allocation of the entitlements to exploit new business opportunities: notes from an economic perspective
- Speaker: Marco Corradi, University of Oxford
Oxford Law Faculty SCR at 12:30
February 2010
Tuesday 9 February
- Control-Enhancing Mechanisms and Concentrated Ownership
- Speaker: Jose Mendoza, University of Oxford
Oxford Law Faculty SCR at 12:30
November 2009
Thursday 5 November 2009
- Fiduciary Investment and Duties of Care: Was Lord Eldon Right?
- Speaker: Dr Joshua Getzler, University of Oxford
Oxford Law Faculty Seminar Room C at 12:30
October 2009
Thursday 29 October
- Meeting to be held at UCL with 3 speakers
- Speaker: Marc Moore, Javier Tapia, and Kate Leivesley, UCL - a light lunch will be served at 2 PM
Oxford Law Faculty http://www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/faculty/index.shtml?laws_map at 2 PM
June 2009
Thursday 4 June
- Regulating OTC Derivatives: In Search of a Way Forward
- Speaker: Dan Awrey, Faculty of Law, Oxford
Oxford Law Faculty SCR at 12:30
May 2009
Thursday 7 May
- Arbitrage and competition in tax, securities and corporate law
- Speaker: John Vella, Faculty of Law, Oxford
Oxford Law Faculty SCR at 12:30
March 2009
Tuesday 17 March
- Comparative law and hybrid paradigms. The case of the transfer of English shares
- Speaker: Matteo Solinas:, London School of Economics
London LSE New Academic Building on Lincoln's Inn Field in Room NAB 208 at 15:00
December 2008
Thursday 4 December 2008
November 2008
Thursday 13 November
- Eu Company Law Or Member States Company Law? Balances and Disequilibria
- Speaker: Viviana Mollica, Faculy of Law, Cambridge
Oxford Senior Common Room at 12:30
October 2008
Thursday 30 October
- Directors’ duties under Companies Act 2006 and the impact of the company's operations on the environment - NB There will be 3 presentations - see noticeboard in Law Faculty for full details
- Speaker: Ian Havercroft and Arad Reisberg , University College London, Law Faculty
Oxford Law Faculty Keeton Room, Bentham House, UCL at 2:00
