UCL CLP: Corporate Law in the UK after Recent Reforms (Reisberg)

CURRENT LEGAL PROBLEMS LECTURE SERIES 2009-10:

Corporate Law in the UK after Recent Reforms:
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

by
Dr Arad Reisberg
UCL Centre for Commercial Law, Faculty of Laws

on 4 March 2010, from 6-7pm

Venue:
UCL Law Faculty
Bentham House, Endsleigh Gardens
London WC1H 0EG

Accredited with 1 CPD hour by the
Solicitors Regulation Authority and the Bar Standards Board

About the speaker:
Arad Reisberg is currently a Reader in Corporate and Financial Law and Vice Dean for Research at the Faculty. He is also the Director of the Centre for Commercial Law and Co-Director of the Centre for Law and Economics . He has been teaching at the Faculty since September 2003, and joined it full-time in September 2006. He was formerly a Senior Arts Scholar (2001-2003) and a Tutor at Pembroke College Oxford, where he taught law at 6 colleges at Oxford University between 2001-2005. He has also been a Visiting Lecturer at Oxford University (2005) and most recently a Lecturer at Warwick Law School (2005-2006). He is the recipient of numerous academic scholarships and awards and has written widely on shareholder remedies and directors' duties. He is an Academic Member of ECGI (European Corporate Governance Institute), a co-editor of Pettet's Company Law, sits on the Editorial Boards of the Journal International Corporate Rescue and the Journal of Corporate Ownership and Control, and is a contributing author to Annotated Companies Acts (Oxford University Press, looseleaf).

Arad ’s research interests are in the field of corporate law, financial law, corporate finance and regulation of financial markets. In particular, Arad is researching issues surrounding corporate governance in a global environment, the interrelationship between the remedies available to aggrieved shareholders in a company, directors’ duties (and the interaction between these duties and environmental law), the regulation of financial markets and how modern technology may offer new and more efficient means to achieve corporate laws’ concepts and goals.