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dcn24@cam.ac.uk

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Education CV

  • PhD Student at University of Cambridge
    • Recipient of the Squire Studentship
    • Recipient of a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council ("SSHRC") Doctoral Graduate Research Scholarship
    • Recipient of the Modern Law Review Studentship
  • LLM: York University, Osgoode Hall Law School
    • Recipient of the Hon. Willard Z. Estey Teaching Fellowship
  • JD: University of Western Ontario
  • Hon. BA: University of Toronto, Trinity College

 

Fields of research

  • Securities Regulation
  • Financial Regulation
  • Corporate Governance
  • Fintech
  • Cryptoassets
  • Decentralized Finance

 

Dissertation Title: A Day Late and a Dollar Short? Securities Regulation of Decentralized Finance

Supervisors

Professor Eilís Ferran and Dr Ann Sofie Cloots

Representative Publications

  • Review of Kevin Werbach, Eva Micheler and Bianca Kremer (eds), Foundations of Decentralized Organizations: Blockchain and the Future of Corporate Law, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2026, 352 pp, Modern Law Review, forthcoming.
  • "An Exercise in Utility (Tokens): Global Securities Regulation of Cryptoassets", The Cambridge Law Journal (2026) 85:1, doi:10.1017/S0008197326101275.
  • "The Morals of the Women on Boards Story: Global Board Gender Diversity Efforts Still Need Fairness-Based Arguments to Move Regulation to the Next Chapter", The International Lawyer (2020) 53:2, 235.
  • "Crashing the Boards: A Comparative Analysis of the Boxing Out of Women On Boards in the United States and Canada", 12 Pepperdine Journal of Business, Entrepreneurship and the Law (2019) 285.
  • “No Representation Without Valuation: Bidder and Target Directors’ Duties under Canada’s New Take-over Bid Regime: Re Hecla Mining Company” (2017) 59:3 Canadian Business Law Journal 359.
  • "Sprott Bid Structure Ruled Golden: Targets Lose War over Proxy Battle: Central Gold Trust v. Sprott Asset Management" (2016) 32 Banking and Finance Law Review 191.