Professor Javier Solana
- Professor of Law and Finance (Law)
telephone:
01413307167
email:
Javier.Solana@glasgow.ac.uk
Room 504, Stair Building, 5-10 The Square, Glasgow, G12 8QQ
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4120-2368Biography
Javier was appointed to the position of Lecturer in Commercial Law in August 2016. He holds a B.A. in Business Administration from Carlos III University of Madrid, and law degrees from Carlos III University of Madrid (LLB, MPhil), Harvard Law School (LLM), and the University of Oxford (DPhil).
In his doctoral dissertation he explored the possible implications of collateral re-use for financial stability. In other academic work, he has explored the regulation of mobile phone technology to make payments, and the limits to the new supervisory powers conferred upon the European Central Bank. His research has been supported by the Global Law in Finance Network, the University of Oxford, the European Central Bank, and Banco Santander, among others.
Javier has been the recipient of many academic awards, including the prestigious “la Caixa” Fellowship (2011) and the GLawFin Fellowship (2013-16). He has also worked as a trainee lawyer at Cuatrecasas Gonçalves Pereira and as a Legal Intern at the World Bank in Washington D.C. Javier is fluent in Spanish, English and French, has an intermediate command of Mandarin Chinese, and a basic knowledge of Farsi and Arabic.
Research interests
Javier is interested in the intersection between Law, Philosophy and Economics. Specific interests include the regulation of finance and, more specifically, the role of Law in supporting climate finance and promoting sustainable development.
Supervision
Javier is interested in supervising research students in financial law and regulation, and, in particular, in the areas of derivatives, financial collateral, macroprudential regulation, financial stability and sustainable finance. He also welcomes applications in the broad area of law and economic development.
Current students
- Sezgin, Huseyin - Reassessment of the ECB's Democratic Accountability
- Alarcon Lopez, Paola
It may be legal, but is it socially desirable? - Jones, Jack
Recovering a Radical Critique of Inequality and the U.K. Constitution: Constitutional Political Economy in the British Tradition of Dissent - Mičik, Lorena
Taking security over crypto-assets - Zhou, Shining
Macroprudential Perspectives on Central Banks' Response to Systemic Risk in the Context of Climate Change
Teaching
Javier teaches regularly in Financial Law and Financial Regulation courses across the Law School and the Business School. In addition, he teaches an LLM course that explores the role of law in market economies (Law and Markets), and leads the Finance and Social Justice Project, an experiential LLM course that gives students the opportunity to develop their own legal interventions to address pressing problems of social justice by levering the power of finance.
