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Professor Eilis Ferran

St Catharine's College
M.A., Ph.D. (Cantab.); Solicitor;
Professor of Company and Securities Law; Harvard Link Co-ordinator

Interests
Corporate finance law. General company law. Financial regulation. Insolvency.

Lecturing & Supervising
Tripos
Lectures and supervises Company Law.
Supervises Law of Contract.

Publications
Books
Principles of Corporate Finance Law (OUP)

Building an EU Securities Market (Cambridge University Press)

Regulating Financial Services and Markets in the 21st Century (Ed) (Hart Publishing)

Book Chapters
"Capital Market Openness After Financial Turmoil" in P Koutrakos and M Evans (Ed), Beyond the Established Orders (Hart Publishing)

"Three Recent Developments in Auditors’ Liability" in Festschrift fьr Klaus J Hopt zum 70 Geburtstag (Verlag Walter de Gruyter)

"Share Capital" in G Morse (Ed), Palmer’s Company Law (looseleaf) (Sweet & Maxwell)

"Financial Assistance" in G Morse (Ed), Palmer's Company Law (looseleaf) (Sweet & Maxwell)

"Principles-based, risk-based regulation and effective enforcement" in M Tison, H De Wulf, C Van der Elst and R Steennot (Ed), Perspectives in Financial Regulation (Cambridge University Press), pp. 427-448

"Enforcement of Insider Dealing Laws" in J Armour and J Payne (Ed), Rationality in Company Law: Essays in Honour of DD Prentice (Hart Publishing), pp. 57 - 70

Articles
"Corporate Attribution and the Directing Mind and Will" (2011) 127 LQR (forthcoming)

"The Regulation of Hedge Funds and Private Equity: A Case Study in The Development of the EU’s Regulatory Response to the Financial Crisis" Working Paper

"˜Can Soft Law Bodies Be Effective? The Special Case of the European Systemic Risk Board"" [2010] ELR 751 - 776

"Understanding the New Institutional Architecture of EU Financial Market Supervision" Working Paper

"The Break-up of the Financial Services Authority" (2011) Oxford Journal of Legal Studies (forthcoming)

"Are US-Style Investor Suits Coming to the UK?" [2009] Journal of Corporate Law Studies 315-348

"Capital Market Openness After Financial Turmoil" Working paper

"What’s Wrong with Rights Issues" (2008) 2 Law and Financial Markets Review 523 – 536

"Capital Market Competitiveness and Enforcement" Working paper

"Non-Enforcement-led Public Oversight of Financial and Corporate Governance Disclosures and of Auditors" [2008] Journal of Corporate Law Studies 191 – 224

"Transatlantic Financial Services Regulatory Dialogue" European Business Organization Law Review (EBOR) (2006), 7 : 647-673

"Cross-border Offers of Securities in the EU: The Standard Life Flotation" [2007] European Company and Financial Law Review 461-490

"The Place for Creditor Protection on the Agenda for Modernisaiton of Company law in the European Union" (2006) 3 European Company and Financial Law Review 178

"Financial Assistance: Changing Policy Perceptions but Static Law" [2004] Cambridge Law Journal 225 - 243

"The Role of the Shareholder in Internal Corporate Governance: Enabling Shareholders to Make Better-informed Decisions" [2003] European Business Organization Law Review 491 - 516

"Examining the UK Experience in Adopting the Single Financial Regulator Model" (2003) 28 Brooklyn Journal of International Law 257-307

"Dispute Resolution Mechanisms in the UK Financial Sector" [2002] Civil Justice Quarterly 135-155 (also published in a report to the Korean Stock Exchange, Self-Regulation in the Korean Securities Market Korean Securities Law Association, 2002)

"Corporate Law Codes and Social Norms - Finding the Right Regulatory Combination and Institutional Structure" [2001] Journal of Corporate Law Studies 381-409

"Company Law Reform in the UK' (2001) 5 Singapore Journal of International and Comparative Law 516-568" (2001) 5 Singapore Journal of International and Comparative Law 516-568

Reports
"Are the Lamfalussy Regulatory Networks Working Successfully?" (European Policy Forum, Jun 2007)

"Regulation of Private Equity-Backed Leveraged Buyout Activity in Europe" (ECGI Law Working Paper, May 2007) 084/2007