School of Law

Legal challenges for credible sustainability commitments in the financial and insurance sectors

Fri, 23 Aug 2024 14:42:00 BST

Legal challenges for credible sustainability commitments in the financial and insurance sectors

Panel discussion on Board decision-making, stakeholders, soft law and hard law

Thu, 26 Aug 2021 13:21:00 BST

Prof. Esser and Prof. MacNeil were recently part of an online panel discussion organised by the University of Stellenbosch, Faculty of Law as part of their Centenary celebrations.

Webinar "Dissent in Insurance law" - recordings

Tue, 13 Jul 2021 14:42:00 BST

Recordings of our webinar on "Dissent in insurance law" are available.

BIICL - Hausfeld webinar on climate litigation (6/7 July)

Thu, 17 Jun 2021 21:37:00 BST

SAVE THE DATE (6/7 July 2021) for the two-day virtual summit on Climate litigation organised by BIICL in partnership with the law firm Hausfeld.

CFL Webinar - Dissent in Insurance Law (6th July)

Fri, 14 May 2021 16:53:00 BST

We are pleased to host "Dissent in Insurance Law", a webinar to be held on Tuesday, 6th July 2020, at 9 -16.30 BST, with a keynote address by the Honourable Justice Sarah Derrington, Judge of the Federal Court of Australia, and ten prominent women scholars in Insurance Law.

Webinar "CENTRAL CLEARING PARTIES, ROBINHOOD AND ARCHEGOS" (Prof. Tanega, Mr. Savi) - RECORDINGS

Mon, 10 May 2021 14:28:00 BST

Recordings of our last webinar on “Central Clearing Parties Regulations, A Theoretical Framework - With Case Examples of Robinhood and Archegos” are available. We had the pleasure to welcome Prof. Joseph Tanega and Mr. Andrea Savi.

New articles on Workforce Engagement, CSR and ESG

Thu, 29 Apr 2021 11:48:00 BST

Two recent articles by Prof. MacNeil, Prof. Esser and Dr. Chalaczkiewicz- Ladna on "From a Financial to an Entity Model of ESG" and on "Workforce Engagement and the UK Corporate Governance Code" are now available on SSRN. Our colleagues will also present these works at upcoming international conferences and seminar series.

Webinar "Central Clearing Parties, Robinhood and Archegos" - Prof. Tanega, Mr. Savi

Tue, 20 Apr 2021 10:25:00 BST

We will welcome Prof. Tanega and Mr. Savi at our next webinar on “Central Clearing Parties Regulations, A Theoretical Framework - With Case Examples of Robinhood and Archegos” on Friday 7th May, 2-3.30 PM BST.

Webinar "sustainable finance and the design of ESG securities" - recordings

Wed, 03 Mar 2021 21:30:40 GMT

Mr. Gustavo Grebler presented on 2nd March on "Sustainable finance and the design of ESG securities". Recordings are now available.

Webinar "Sustainable Finance and the design of ESG strategies" - 2nd March

Mon, 22 Feb 2021 14:30:00 GMT

We are delighted to announce our next webinar on “Sustainable finance and the design of ESG securities”, which will take place on 2nd March. We will be joined by Mr. Gustavo Grebler, practitioner and researcher.

Consultations on Sustainable Corporate Governance

Wed, 16 Dec 2020 09:11:00 GMT

Some members of our research group have recently contributed to two public consultations on corporate governance and sustainability.

Webinar: AI & the future of law - recordings

Fri, 04 Dec 2020 15:43:00 GMT

The CFL Research Group had the pleasure to organise a webinar on "AI and the future of law", which discussed the impact of artificial intelligence on corporate governance and insurance law.

Webinar: AI & the future of Law

Tue, 03 Nov 2020 17:32:00 GMT

We are pleased to announce that we are organising a webinar on "Artificial Intelligence and the future of law" on 2nd December 2020.

Call for applicants - FSJ Project

Wed, 07 Oct 2020 16:21:00 BST

The School of Law has just opened the call for applications to participate in the 2021 Finance and Social Justice Project for LLM students. The deadline is 14 October.

Paper: The Pandemic Response in the UK

Thu, 03 Sep 2020 10:55:00 BST

The recent paper entitled "The Pandemic Response in the UK in the Context of Corporate and Financial Law – within and without Law" has been featured in Oxford Business Law Blog.

Response to EC Consultation on Sustainable Finance

Tue, 14 Jul 2020 15:39:35 BST

Members of our research group have submitted their responses to public

Paper: The Pandemic Response in the UK

Fri, 03 Jul 2020 21:44:00 BST

Prof. MacNeil and Prof. Esser have recently written a short paper based on their presentation at our Webinar.

Response to FCA public consultation

Mon, 22 Jun 2020 18:11:00 BST

The Corporate and Financial Law Research Group has submitted a response to the FCA Public Consultation CP20/3 on climate-related disclosures for listed companies.

Webinar recordings

Thu, 02 Jul 2020 14:34:00 BST

Recordings of our webinar ‘Does the global pandemic signal a paradigm shift in law and the economy?’ are available on youtube.

Webinar: Does the global pandemic signal a paradigm shift in law and the economy?

Thu, 18 Jun 2020 09:11:00 BST

On Friday 12 June, the universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow (the Corporate and Financial Law Research group) jointly hosted a full-day webinar entitled ‘Does the global pandemic signal a paradigm shift in law and the economy?’ co-organised by Prof Emilios Avgouleas and Prof Iain MacNeil.

FSJ Project Policy Brief 1/2020 - EU Treaties require Eurozone monetary policy to take environmental objectives into account

Tue, 19 May 2020 14:35:10 BST

As part of the Finance and Social Justice Project, a team of LLM and PhD students has published a policy brief which evaluates the impact of Corporate Sector Purchase Programme (CSPP) on climate change based on their findings and on a request to the German and Spanish central banks.

Workshop "Legal issues and perspectives on Fintech" - 6th February 2020

Sat, 15 Feb 2020 13:44:00 GMT

The Corporate and Financial Law Research Group organised a workshop on "Legal issues and perspectives on Fintech" on 6th February at the School of Law.

CALL FOR PAPERS - Postgraduate Conference 2020!

Tue, 21 Jan 2020 16:26:00 GMT

We are welcoming abstract submissions from PGR Students on "Outlandish legal research" by Tuesday 17th March 2020.

Discussing The Code of Capital - 16-17 December

Wed, 18 Dec 2019 17:06:00 GMT

On Monday 16th December and Tuesday 17th December we had the pleasure to welcome Prof. Katharina Pistor to discuss her recent book “The Code of Capital: How the Law creates Wealth and Inequality” (Princeton UP, 2019).

Professor Pamela Hanrahan, Glasgow Law Fellow - 3 September

Thu, 05 Sep 2019 10:29:00 BST

On 3 September Professor Pamela Hanrahan presented a talk on “At the limits of law: Regulating for non-financial risk in the aftermath of Australia's Banking Royal Commission”

Corporate and Financial Law launch event held on 24 May

Fri, 03 May 2019 15:51:00 BST

The newly formed Corporate and Financial Law Research Group held its launch event on 24 May.

Finance and Social Justice workshop – 21-22 March

Tue, 02 Apr 2019 12:28:00 BST

On 21-22 March, Dr Anna Chadwick and Dr Javier Solana held an inter-disciplinary workshop exploring the intersection between finance and social justice at the School of Law.

PhD Work in Progress Seminar - 19 September

Thu, 05 Sep 2019 10:15:00 BST

On 19 September Fei Deng and Xiayang Chen, two postgraduate students from the School of Law, presented their PHD research in the context of a "Work in Progress Seminar".

Dr Natania Locke Seminar (Swinburne, Australia) - 25 September

Thu, 05 Sep 2019 10:20:00 BST

On 25 September Dr Natania Locke presented a seminar on “Observations about the self-assessments of governance, accountability and culture following the Australian Banking Royal Commission”.