Law and Finance Seminar Series
About the Group
The Law and Finance Seminar Series brings to Oxford leading scholars from around the world working at the forefront of the intersection of the law and finance fields to present work in progress.
Recent seminar speakers have included Randall Thomas (Vanderbilt University), Jeffrey Gordon (Columbia Law School), Brian Cheffins (Cambridge University); Luca Enriques (University of Bologna and Consob); Julian Franks (London Business School); Henry Hansmann (Yale Law School); Gerard Hertig (ETH Zurich); Enrico Perotti (Amsterdam Business School); Katharina Pistor (Columbia Law School); and Alan Schwartz (Yale Law School)
Faculty and students are welcome to attend the seminars. The typical format is for 40 minutes' presentation by the speaker followed by 40-50 minutes' discussion of the issues raised.
Convenor: Anne Currie
Senior member: John Armour
Recent papers and other downloads
Bratton, Wachter: A Theory of Preferred Stock
Forthcoming Group Events
June 2013
Monday 10 June 2013 Week 8
- Cost Benefit Analysis in Consumer Finance
- Speaker: Howell Jackson, James S. Reid Jr. Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Oxford Law Faculty The Cube at 17:30
Tuesday 11 June Week 8
- Risk-Sharing within Firms: Worldwide Evidence
- Speaker: Marco Pagano, Professor of Economics, University of Naples Federico II
Said Business School The Boardroom at 12:15
Previous Group Events
May 2013
Wednesday 22 May 2013
- Executive Retirement Pay and Incentives
- Speaker: Robert Jackson, Associate Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
Oxford Law Faculty The Cube at 17:30
Thursday 2 May
- The Pension System and the Rise of Shareholder Primacy
- Speaker: Martin Gelter, Associate Professor of Law, Fordham University School of Law
Oxford Law Faculty Seminar Room F at 17:30
March 2013
Wednesday 6 March
- A Theory of Preferred Stock
- Speaker: William W. Bratton, Deputy Dean and Nicholas F. Gallicchio Professor of Law; Co-Director, Institute for Law and Economics, University of Pennsylvania Law School
Oxford Law Faculty The Cube at 17:30
February 2013
Thursday 14 February
- Contracting about Private Benefits of Control
- Speaker: Alan Schwartz, Sterling Professor, Yale Law School
Oxford Law Faculty The Cube at 17:30
November 2012
Thursday 22 November 2012
- Institutional discontinuity: the twisted emergence of legal personality in the Dutch East India Company
- Change of venue
Speaker: Enrico Perotti, Professor of International Finance, Amsterdam Business School
Oxford Law Faculty Law Board Room at 17:30
Thursday 1 November
- Who Should Pay for Credit Ratings and How?
- Change of venue
Speaker: Anil Kashyap, Edward Eagle Brown Professor of Economics and Finance, University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Said Business School Class Room 1, West Wing, SBS: if you are attending from outside of the School please enter via reception in the West Wing, for which the entrance is in front of the train station. at 12:15
October 2012
Monday 8 October
- Contract and Innovation: The Limited Role of Generalist Courts in the Evolution of Novel Contractual Forms
- Speaker: Ronald J. Gilson, Marc and Eva Stern Professor of Law and Business, Columbia University; Charles J. Meyers Professor of Law and Business, Stanford University
Oxford Law Faculty The Cube at 17:30
June 2012
Thursday 7 June
- Are US CEOs Paid More? New international Evidence
- Speaker: Pedros Matos, Associate Professor of Business Administration, Darden School of Business, University of Virginia
Oxford Law Faculty The Cube at 17:30
May 2012
Thursday 24 May
- Allocating Risk Through Contract: evidence from M&A
- Speaker: John C. Coates, John F. Cogan, Jr. Professor of Law and Economics, Harvard Law School
Oxford Law Faculty The Cube at 17:30
Thursday 17 May
- The Political Economy of Dodd-Frank: Why Financial Reform Tends to be Frustrated and Systemic Risk Perpetuated
- Speaker: John C. Coffee Jr. , Adolf A. Berle Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
Oxford Law Faculty The Cube at 17:30
March 2012
Thursday 1 March
- The Spanish Business Bankruptcy Puzzle
- Speaker: Fernandez Gomez, Professor of Law and Economics, Universidad Pompeu Fabra School of Law, Barecelona
Oxford Law Faculty The Cube at 17:30
February 2012
Thursday 16 February
- Why Bank Governance is Different
- Speaker: Marco Becht, Professor of Finance and Economics, Universite Libre de Bruxelles
Oxford Law Faculty The Cube at 17:30
November 2011
Thursday 24 November 2011
- Bank CEO Turnover
- Speaker: Thomas Kirchmaier, Lecturer in Business Economics and Strategy, Manchester Business School
Oxford Law Faculty The Cube at 17:30
Thursday 3 November
- Regulating Global Financial Institutions: The Unresolved Challenge
- Speaker: Emilios Avgouleas, Professor of International Financial Markets & Financial Law, Director of the LLM Programme, University of Manchester
Oxford Law Faculty The Cube at 17:30
June 2011
Thursday 9 June
- Market Efficiency after the Financial Crisis
- Speaker: Ronald J. Gilson, Marc and Eva Stern Professor of Law and Business, Columbia Law School
Said Business School Founders Room at 17:30
Friday 3 June
- Securities Holding Through Intermediaries U.S. Law under U.C.C. Article 8
- Speaker: Professor Jim Rogers, Boston College
Jesus College Habbakuk Room at 17:30
May 2011
Thursday 12 May
- Fraud-on-the-Market Class Actions Against Foreign Issuers
- Speaker: Merritt Fox, Michael E. Patterson Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
Oxford Law Faculty SCR at 17:30
Thursday 5 May
- Inefficient Provision of Inside Money by Banks
- Speaker: Oliver Hart, Andrew E. Furer Professor of Economics, Harvard University
Said Business School Edmond Safra Lecture Theatre at 17:30
March 2011
Thursday 10 March
- Financial Crisis as a Driver of Law reform: the EU's Response as a Case Study
- Speaker: Eilis Ferran, Professor of Companies and Securities Law, University of Cambridge
Said Business School Edmond Safra Lecture Theatre at 17:30
January 2011
Thursday 27 January
- Where Do Firms Issue Debt? An Empirical Analysis of Issuer Location and Regulatory Competition in the European Corporate Debt Market
- Speaker: Professor Horst Eidenmueller and Lars Hornuf, Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich
Said Business School Edmond Safra Lecture Theatre at 17:30
November 2010
Thursday 25 November 2010
- The EU and the Financial Crisis: More Europe - More Risks?
- Speaker: Niamh Moloney, Professor of Financial Markets Law, London School of Economics and Political Science
Said Business School Edmund Safra Lecture Theatre at 17:30
Thursday 4 November
- Comparative Legal Cultures from an Economic Perspective
- Speaker: Anthony Ogus, Professor Emeritus, University of Manchester
Said Business School Edmund Safra Lecture Theatre at 17:30
May 2010
Thursday 27 May
- Comparing CEO Employment Contract Provisions: Differences between Australian and U.S.
- Speaker: Professor Randall Thomas, Vanderbilt University
Said Business School Edmond Safra Lecture Theatre at 17:00
Thursday 6 May
- Avoiding Eight-Alarm Fires in the Political Economy of Systemic Risk Management
- Speaker: Professor Jeffrey Gordon, Columbia Law School
Manor Road Social Sciences Building Room A at 17:00
