On Tuesday 30 June, lawyers from leading law firm Slaughter and May joined members of the Faculty for the inaugural Slaughter and May Workshop. Organised as part of the long-standing relationship between the firm and the Faculty, and chaired by newly-appointed Pro-Vice Chancellor, Professor Eilís Ferran, the workshop was the first of a series which will allow the firm and the Faculty to combine academic and practitioner insights on topical legal matters.
The first workshop provided an opportunity to celebrate the firm's recent gift to the Faculty of Law, which will fund a Lectureship in Corporate Law from October 2015. The firm's generosity is a significant contribution to the Faculty's objective of maintaining and building on its standards of excellence in legal teaching and scholarship.
The speakers at the workshop were Professor Simon Deakin, Dr Mark Elliott and Ms Elizabeth Howell.
Simon is a specialist in labour law, private law, company law and EU law and is also a pioneer of law and economics and empirical legal studies. He is also the incoming Faculty Director of Research and Co-Chair of the University Strategic Research Initiatives in Public Policy. Simon addressed the role of law in economic development in China and Russia.
Mark is a public law specialist, and will become Professor of Public Law from October 2015. Mark has been part of a vanguard of scholars who have embraced new media to disseminate research and to contribute directly to public debate. His recent appointment as Legal Adviser to the House of Lords' Constitution Committee confirms his status as one of the most influential scholars in the field. Mark's presentation explored the highly topical issues surrounding Human Rights in the UK today.
Elizabeth will be joining the Faculty in October to fill the newly created Slaughter and May Lectureship in Corporate Law. She joins the Faculty from Oxford where she has recently completed her DPhil on Short-Selling. Her research plans will take her further into EU financial regulation, and she will consolidate the Faculty's ability to offer the popular LLM course in Corporate Finance Law as well as contributing to the teaching in company law and contract at undergraduate level. Elizabeth gave an account of the politicisation of regulation, which explored the regulatory change in Europe following the recent financial crisis.
The presentations are available to access below:
- Professor Simon Deakin: 'The Role of Law in Economic Development in China and Russia';
- Dr Mark Elliott: 'Human Rights in the UK: Where Now?';
- Ms Elizabeth Howell: 'The Politicisation of Regulation: A 'Short' Story'.
A gallery of photographs from the event is available on Flickr:
