Table of Contents

Introduction: The Future of Financial Regulation Iain MacNeil and Justin O'Brien
1. Adam Smith's Dinner Charles Sampford
2. US Mortgage Markets: A Tale of Self-correcting Markets, Parallel Lives and Other People's Money Robin Paul Malloy
3. The Current Financial Crisis and the Economic Impact of Future Regulatory Reform Ray Barrell, Ian Hurst and Simon Kirby
4. Financial Engineering or Legal Engineering? Legal Work, Legal Integrity and the Banking Crisis Doreen McBarnet
5. The Future of Financial Regulation: The Role of the Courts Jeffrey B Golden
6. The Financial Crisis: Regulatory Failure or Systems Failure? Paddy Ireland
7. Beyond 'Light Touch'Regulation of British Banks after the Financial Crisis Roman Tomasic
8. What Next for Risk-based Financial Regulation? Joanna Gray
9. Risk Control Strategies: An Assessment in the Context of the Credit Crisis Iain MacNeil
10. Revisiting the Lender of Last Resort—The Role of the Bank of England Andrew Campbell and Rosa Lastra
11. The Global Credit Crisis and Regulatory Reform George A Walker
12. What Future for Disclosure as a Regulatory Technique? Lessons from Behavioural Decision Theory and the Global Financial Crisis Emilios Avgouleas
13. Credit Crisis Solutions: Risk Symmetric Criteria for the Reconstruction of Socially Fair Asset-backed Securities Joseph Tanega
14. 'Corporate Governance' an Oxymoron? The Role of Corporate Governance in the Current Banking Crisis Blanaid Clarke
15. Board Composition and Female Non-executive Directors Sally Wheeler
16. Has the Financial Crisis Revealed the Concept of the 'Responsible Owner' to be a Myth? Charlotte Villiers
17. The Institutional Investor's Role in 'Responsible Ownership' Frank Curtis, Ida Levine and James Browning
18. Trust and Transparency: The Need for Early Warning Howard Adelman
19. Regulation, Ethics and Collective Investments Pamela F Hanrahan
20. Critical Voices:Widening the Regulatory Conversation Werner J Jeanrond
21. Dealing Fairly with the Costs to the Poor of the Global Financial Crisis Christian Barry and Matt Peterson
22. Professions, Integrity and the Regulatory Relationship: Defending and Reconceptualising Principles-based Regulation and Associational Democracy Ken McPhail
23. Financial Services Providers, Reputation and the Virtuous Triangle Seumas Miller
24. Toward A 'Responsible' Future: Reframing and Reforming the Governance of Financial Markets Melvin J Dubnick
25. Re-regulatuing Wall Street: Substantive Change or the Politics of Symbolism Revisited? Justin O'Brien
26. Banking Crisis: Regulation and Supervision Kern Alexander
27. Macro-prudential Regulation Avinash Persaud
28. The Regulatory Cycle: From Boom to Bust Jeremy Cooper

About the Author

Iain G MacNeil is the Alexander Stone Professor of Commercial Law at the University of Glasgow.
Justin O'Brien is a Professor of Law at the University of New South Wales, Sydney.

Reviews

...for anyone interested in regulation of financial institutions, both in micro and macro sense, this book is well worth having.
*Banking and Finance Law Review, Volume 26.3*