The Finance and Financial Law Research Group was formed in 2011 as a HASS Faculty Research Group and draws together researchers and PhD students working in disciplines across the Faculty who share a common scholarly interest in Money and Finance. The aim of the group is to stimulate interdisciplinary research and publication that has policy relevance in practice.
Its Law School Staff members include:
Karim Aldohni, TT Arvind, Jane Ball, Kevin Brown, Francesco De Cecco, Alison Dunn, Jonathan Galloway, Joanna Gray, Patrick O’Callaghan
Associate Members
Dr David Bholat
Forthcoming Activities for 2012/2013
A series of seminars throughout 2012/2013 will centre around two main themes : Retail Finance and Product Mis-selling and Resilience and the Financial System.
These will be announced on the Law School and Faculty website throughout the academic year.
Previous Activities
The Group held its highly successful Inaugural Symposium in July 2011 at which Professor Charles Goodhart (LSE economist, leading scholar in the field and former member of the Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee) was the keynote speaker.
The July 2012 Symposium was organised around the theme of at which Professor Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann of the European University Institute gave a keynote address entitled “Democratizing a Currency? : Multilevel Constitutionalism And The Euro Crisis: Methodological Pluralism In International Economic Law Research And Its Critics” to which Dr Patrick O’Callaghan responded. This was followed by an interdisciplinary panel discussion of various legal, political and economic issues raised by the crisis in governance and sovereign financing within the Eurozone in which many of our PhD students also participated along with academic staff.
The F&FLRG's Work in Progress Seminars held over the academic year 2011/2012 included:
The Missing Link in Vickers : Legal and Policy Issues arising from the Independent Banking Commission Report Professor Joanna Gray and Dr Jonathan Galloway
Audit in the Spotlight: an analysis of the House of Lords Inquiry into the Big Four. Professor Chris Carter , Newcastle University Business School,
Modelling the market impact of analysts conflicts in noisy markets: Implications for regulation Professor William Forbes (Loughborough University, School of Business and Economics) Crisis,
Capital and Confidence: Interrogating 'Bank Bailouts Professor Paul Langley (University of Durham)
Mortgage Protection Insurance : Economic Issues for Regulation Professor Robert Hudson
Regulating Islamic Banking Operations within a conventional market frameworkDr Karim Aldohni
Additionally the Group supported a one day conference in April 2012 entitled :
‘The BIS Consultation on a Competition Regime for Growth: One Year On’