The Global Financial Crisis and the Regulatory Response

Series: Cultural Diversity and Law
This volume provides a valuable reference for scholars in the field of European integration studies and European legal and political theory. The contributors revisit one of the first academic projects to conceptualise and study European legal integration - the early 'Integration through Law' School. On this basis, they consider continuities and discontinuities in the underlying social and political landscape which the law is to integrate (the 'object' of integration), the forms and capacities of the law itself (the 'agent' of integration), and the way these two dimensions reflect on each other.

Dr Clare Chambers-Jones (2001 LLB Glamorgan University) PhD in Financial Exclusion and Banking Regulation (2004 Bournemouth University) FPC (2004 Chartered Institute of Insurers) PGCert in Academic Practice (2007 Bournemouth University) PGCert in Research Supervision (2008 Bournemouth University). Clare has worked in the City of London with Grant Thornton and subsequently Morgan Stanley, where she worked as an investment banking legal and compliance officer for Europe. Her research interests are banking law, financial education, financial exclusion, alternative financial delivery mechanisms, and mobile finance. She is a senior law lecturer at University of West of England, Bristol law school and teaches Banking Law, Commercial Law and Banking and Finance LLM. She has been awarded an early career research grant to complete her research into virtual economics. Clare writes prolifically and is an international expert on the subject of banking and finance. Dr. Nicholas Ryder is an internationally recognised expert on money laundering, terrorist financing and banking regulation. He successfully completed his law degree in 1995, his Legal Practice Course in 1999 and obtained his Ph.D in 2004. His research interests include money laundering, terrorist financing, fraud, banking regulation and aspects of consumer credit laws. He has an outstanding record of research which includes over thirty refereed articles, four invited book chapters, twenty two professional articles and twenty invited lectures and refereed conference papers. Nicholas has recently published three monographs (see below) and is currently writing several books in the area of commercial law. His research has been disseminated, by request to a broad range of organisations and institutions including HM Treasury, the Welsh Assembly Government, the Irish Government, the Wales Co-operative Council, the National Association of Credit Union Workers, the South West Fraud Forum, the Wales Fraud Forum and the Financial Services Authority. Nicholas has also undertaken consultancy work for a wide range of organisations including Orange Telecommunications, France Telecom, the North Wales Confederation of the Law Society and the National Audit Office. He is the co-convenor of the Banking and Finance Stream for the Society of Legal Scholars since 2006, a member of the South West Fraud Forum Steering Committee, the Wales Law Forum, the Credit Union Research Forum and the European Society for Banking and Financial Law. Academically, he is a Reader in Law at the University of the West of England and has previously taught at the University of Glamorgan, Swansea University and the University of Cork College Ireland. He has also acted as an external examiner at Robert Gordon University (Aberdeen), Liverpool John Moores University, University of East London, University of Hertfordshire and the University of Wolverhampton.