RAD REISBERG
LL.B (Cum Laude), LL.M, D.Phil (Oxon); Advocate.
Lecturer in Law, Assistant Director of Research Studies
Director, Centre for Commercial Law
contact details:
Tel: +44 (0)20 7679 1450 | internal: x21450
Email: a.reisberg@ucl.ac.uk
Secretary: Sylvia Lough
+44 (0)20 7679 1405 | internal: x21405
Profile
Arad Reisberg is currently the Director of the Centre for Commercial Law and Assistant Director of Research Studies at the Faculty. He has been teaching at the Faculty since September 2003, and joined it full-time in September 2006. He was formerly a Senior Arts Scholar (2001-2003) and a Tutor at Pembroke College Oxford, where he taught law at 6 colleges at Oxford University between 2001-2005. He has also been a Visiting Lecturer at Oxford University (2005) and most recently a Lecturer at Warwick Law School (2005-2006). Arad completed his D.Phil with AVI Research Fellowship for Doctoral Studies at Oxford University during the summer of 2005. He is the recipient of numerous academic scholarships and awards and has written widely on shareholder remedies and directors’ duties. He is an Academic Member of ECGI (European Corporate Governance Institute), a co-editor of Pettet’s Company Law, sits on the Editorial Boards of the Journal International Corporate Rescue and the Journal of Corporate Ownership and Control, and is a contributing author to Annotated Companies Acts (Oxford University Press, looseleaf).
Research
Arad’s research interests are in the field of corporate law, financial law, corporate finance and regulation of financial markets. In particular, Arad is researching issues surrounding corporate governance in a global environment, the interrelationship between the remedies available to aggrieved shareholders in a company, directors’ duties (and the interaction between these duties and environmental law), the regulation of financial markets (both nationally and internationally, and in particular within the EU) and how modern technology may offer new and more efficient means to achieve corporate laws’ concepts and goals.
Publications
The abstracts and 'working paper' versions of several of the following can be found on the Social Science Research Network:
Books
- Derivative Actions and Corporate Governance: Theory and Operation
( Oxford University Press, December 2007) Click here to view details on the OUP wesbite - Pettet’s Company law (with John Lowry) (Harlow, Longman)
- Corporate Law: Principles and Commentary (with John Lowry) (Forthcoming, Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2008)
Book Chapters
- ‘Derivative Claims, the UK Companies Act 2006 And Corporate Governance: A Roadmap to Nowhere? In JJ Choi and S Dow (editors) International Finance Review, Volume 9, Institutional Approach to Global Corporate Governance (forthcoming, Emerald Group Publishing, 2008)
- Contributing author to Annotated Companies Acts ( Oxford University Press, looseleaf)
(Chapters on: (1) Minimum share capital requirements; (2) Unregistered companies and companies not formed under the Companies Acts; and (3) Directors' duties and liabilities [together with John Lowry]) - ‘Derivative Claims under the Companies Act 2006: Much Ado About Nothing?’ in J Armour and J Payne (editors) Rationality in Company Law: Essays in Honour of DD Prentice (forthcoming, Hart Publishing, October 2008)
Recent articles:
- 'Corporate Governance and Statutory Derivative Claims Under The UK Companies Act 2006' (2008) 5 Corporate Ownership and Control (June 2008)
- 'Derivative Actions and the Funding Problem: The Way Forward' (2006) Journal of Business Law 445
- ‘Theoretical Reflections on Derivative Actions: The Representative Problem’ (2006) 3 European Company and Financial Law Review 69
- ‘Shareholders’ Remedies: In Search of Consistency of Principle in English Law’ (2005) 5 European Business Law Review 1063 - Special Issue: Corporate Governance in Europe
- 'The Choices of Objectives and the Social Meaning of Derivative Actions’ (2005) 6 European Business Organization Law Review 227
- ‘Judicial Control of Derivative Actions’ (2005) 8 International Company and Commercial Law Review 335
‘Funding Derivative Actions: A Re-examination of Costs and Fees as Incentives to Commence Litigation’ (2004) 4 Journal of Corporate Law Studies 345 - ‘Indemnity Costs Orders Under Section 459 Petition?’ (2004) 25 Company Lawyer 118
- ‘Promoting the Use of Derivative Actions’(2003) 24 Company Lawyer 250
Articles in progress/forthcoming
- ‘Directors’ duties under Companies Act 2006 and the impact of the company's operations on the environment’ (with Ian Havercroft)
Current Teaching
Undergraduate
Company Law (convenor)
Graduate
Corporate Finance (convenor)
Regulation of Financial Markets
