Masters of the Bench

Eilís Ferran is Professor of Company & Securities Law at the University of Cambridge, a University JM Keynes Fellow in Financial Economics, and a Fellow of The British Academy. She did her undergraduate studies in Law at Cambridge University and also completed her doctorate there on the topic of mortgage securitization. She qualified as a Solicitor with Coward (now Clifford) Chance. Since April 2012 she has been Chair of the Law Faculty at Cambridge. She is a Professorial Fellow of St Catharine’s College, Cambridge. She has written extensively on UK, EU and international financial regulation, company law and corporate finance law.  She has been a visiting scholar at law schools in the United States, New Zealand and Hong Kong, and speaks regularly at conferences in Europe and beyond. She is the founding editor of the Journal of Corporate Law Studies (Hart Publishing).