David Zaring and Eilís Ferran will teach a module on international financial regulation as part of the Masters in Corporate Law programme in 2016-17. The module, available exclusively to MCL students, will introduce students to international efforts to regulate financial institutions.
The International Financial Regulation module will include a review of the purpose of financial regulation across borders and a study of its history. There will be analysis of the way that regulators try to ensure that banks across the world are generally safe and sound and the special procedures that are used to deal with banks and other systemically important institutions in financial distress. The module will also consider European bank regulation and the human rights obligations of financial institutions as well as address the problems posed by international coordination in financial regulation and by sovereign wealth funds.
David Zaring is Associate Professor in the Legal Studies and Business Ethics Department at the Wharton School. He writes at the intersection of financial regulation, international law, and domestic administration. He has consulted for the World Bank, for financial regulators on three continents, and has written an occasional column on financial regulation for the New York Times/DealBook.
Eilís Ferran is Professor of Company & Securities Law at the University of Cambridge, a University JM Keynes Fellow in Financial Economics, and a Fellow of The British Academy. She is the University Pro-Vice Chancellor for Institutional and International Relations. Her recent publications include The Oxford Handbook of Financial Regulation, co-edited with Niamh Moloney and Jennifer Payne.
