Public law lecture focus on financial crisis

A series of public events is to be held at the University of Leicester dealing with issues relating to the financial crisis.
It is spearheaded by the School of Law where a think-tank, established in October 2008, has engaged in high-profile meetings - including at governmental level - to assess the crisis.

Now the Centre for European Law and Integration (CELI) in the School of Law has unveiled a programme of events for 2010. The Financial Regulation and Commercial Law (FRCL) CELI research cluster is launching a series of public lectures on 'Financial Crisis Management and Regulatory Reform'. This starts in May 2010 with two public lectures.

In the first lecture on 21 May 2010 Professor John Armour (Lovells Professor of Law and Finance, Faculty of Law University of Oxford) will deliver a paper entitled 'The Bearle Means Corporation in the 21st Century' (21/5/10).

This will be followed with a second lecture on 25 May 2010 by Professor Rosa Lastra (Professor of International Financial and Monetary Law, Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London) who will speak on 'The Pursuit of Stability: Lessons from the Financial Crisis 2007-2009'.

Dr Andromachi Georgosouli from the Centre for European Law and Integration said: “Both lectures are to be given by eminent speakers who will provide insights into a crisis which has affected every household in Britain. The lectures are of interest to all since they concern the regulation of financial markets in the wake of the banking crisis.”

The lectures follow a series of successful lunchtime and evening seminars on the financial crisis and a high profile one day seminar financed by the Modern Law Review on 'FSA: The First Ten Years and the Road Ahead'.

Further details are available from Mrs Holly Morton: hp8@le.ac.uk