Manchester
Studying in Manchester
Coordinator:
Dr. Dennis Khong
Tel.: +44 161 275 0202
Fax.: +44 161 275 4724
Email.: Dennis.Khong[AT]manchester.ac.uk
Office:
Ms Nuria Hortiguelaloeches
Tel.: +44-161-275.35.63
Fax.: +44-161-275.35.79
Email.: nuria.hortiguela[AT]manchester.ac.uk
Postal Address:
University of Manchester
School of Law
Oxford Road
GB-Manchester M13 9PL
Teaching Staff:
Dr. Emilios Avgouleas
Dr. Dennis Khong
Prof. Frank Stephen
Dr. Lindsay Stirton
Thesis Areas:
Contract Law
Tort Law
Property Law
Intellectual Property Law
Regulation
Corporate Governance
Financial Regulation
Coordinator
Together with Giovanni Ramello (Piemonte Orientale) and Shubha Ghosh (SMU), Dr. Khong organises an Annual Workshop on the Law and Economics of Intellectual Property and Information Technology.
He is also affiliated with the Institute for Law, Economy and Global Governance at the University of Manchester, and acts as the Postgraduate Research (Law) Programme Director at the Law School.
Teaching Staff
Dr. Emilios Avgouleas is an acknowledged expert on International regulatory reform and the global financial crisis. His main expertise is in the wider field of International and European banking and finance law and economics.
He is the author of the acclaimed The Mechanics and Regulation of Market Abuse, A Legal and Economic Analysis (Oxford University Press, 2005). He has published extensively in the fields of Behavioural Finance and Financial Regulation, Law and Economics of Capital Markets, EC Financial Services Law, and Global Financial Governance and Development. He has also held academic posts at the LSE and the University of Piraeus.
Emilios has extensive practising experience in the wider field of international financial law and regulation and structured finance. He has worked as an Associate at the Derivatives and Financial Institutions Group of Clifford Chance LLP and as a Managing Associate at the Financial Markets Group of Linklaters. From 2003 to 2007 he was the senior equity partner at the Corporate Finance group of a big Athens based International Law Firm.
Emilios spent the Spring Semester of AY 2008-2009 as the Global Capital Markets Center Fellow at Duke University's Law School. In the Autumn of 2009 he was a visiting professor of Capital Markets Law at the China-Europe School of Law, China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing. In February 2007 he was Dennis J. Block Center for the Study of International Business Law Scholar (in residence), at Brooklyn Law School, sponsored by Skadden Arps, LLP.
Prof. Frank Stephen joined the School of Law on 1 st September 2005 having been a Professor in the Economics Department of the University of Strathclyde since 1990. He is Joint Editor of the European Journal of Law and Economics. He became Head of School on 1st August 2007.
Frank has held visiting appointments at Cornell University, Toronto Law School, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona), Group EM Toulouse and University College Cork. He is an external member of the Business Efficiency and Competitiveness research group of the Department of Business Economics at the Universidade Autonoma de Barcelona. In 2004 Frank was elected to the Executive Board of the International Society for the New Institutional Economics (ISNIE) and in 2007 was elected as a Vice-President. He will become President of ISNIE in 2010.
From 1996-2001 Frank was Chairman, Economists' Forum, Lord Chancellor's Department. In 2000/01 he was Adviser to the Justice 1 Committee of the Scottish Parliament for its Inquiry into Legal Aid and Access to Justice. Frank was a member of the Research Working Group established by the Scottish Executive Justice Department to examine 'Competition and Regulation in Scottish Legal Services Markets', 2004/5. He was appointed special adviser to Joint Committee of House of Commons and House of Lords considering Draft Legal Services Bill in June of 2006.
Dr. Lindsay Stirton is a public lawyer and political scientist, whose interests span a number of areas of executive government, public policy and regulation. He obtained a PhD in Government from the London School of Economics and Political Science. His doctoral work examined the legal and administrative framework for regulation of health services within the UK's National Health Service (NHS), and how this framework contributed to credible and effective regulation of the Service. He has previously worked at the University of East Anglia, the London School of Economics and Political Science and the University of the West Indies, Mona.
