John Armour

Professor of Law and Finance
Dean, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford

John Armour is Professor of Law and Finance at Oxford University and a Fellow of the British Academy and the European Corporate Governance Institute. He studied law (MA, BCL) at the University of Oxford and then at Yale Law School (LLM). His main research interest lies in the integration of legal and economic analysis, with particular emphasis on the impact on the real economy of changes in company law, corporate insolvency law and financial regulation. John serves as an Executive Editor of the Journal of Corporate Law Studies and the Journal of Law, Finance and Accounting, and has been involved in policy-related projects commissioned by the UK’s Department of Trade and Industry (now BEIS), Financial Services Authority (now FCA) and Insolvency Service, the Commonwealth Secretariat and the World Bank. He was previously a member of the Faculty of Law and the interdisciplinary Centre for Business Research at the University of Cambridge. John has held visiting posts at various institutions including the University of Auckland, the University of Chicago, Columbia Law School, the University of Frankfurt, the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Private Law in Hamburg, the University of Pennsylvania Law School and the University of Sydney. He is a member of the American Law Institute and an Academic Member of the Chancery Bar Association. John has published widely in the fields of company law, financial regulation and corporate insolvency. He served as a member of the European Commission’s Informal Company Law Expert Group from 2014–19.

Assaf Hamdani

Professor of Corporate Law
Faculty of Law, University of Oxford

Assaf Hamdani is the Professor of Corporate Law at Oxford University and a Fellow of Jesus College. His research areas are corporate law and governance and financial regulation. His work examines issues such as the tension between entrepreneurial vision and investor protection, corporate governance and innovation, institutional investors, shareholder activism, corporate governance of controlled firms, and regulatory competition. Assaf has published in leading journals such as the California Law Review, Columbia Law Review, Journal of Law and Economics, Stanford Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Review and Yale Law Journal. He is a research member at the European Corporate Governance Institute and has held visiting professorships at Columbia Law School, Harvard Law School, the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Pennsylvania. Assaf was previously a Professor of Law at Tel Aviv University, where he also served as Associate Dean for Research and Development, and the Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz Professor of Corporate Law at the Hebrew University. He holds an SJD from Harvard Law School and an LLB from the Hebrew University.