OXFORD, England, Dec. 8 /PRNewswire/ — The University of Oxford’s Law Faculty, in conjunction with the Said Business School of the University of Oxford, is launching a pioneering new degree program: “The Oxford Master’s in Law and Finance.” The new degree, which begins in October 2010, will be a full-time nine-month program offering students with a prior background in law the chance to develop an advanced interdisciplinary understanding of financial transactions, and of the swiftly evolving economic and regulatory context.
The program will aim to provide an “MBA” equivalent for lawyers working in finance, as well as those pursuing a career in financial institutions, government or business and will support and lead the integration of law and finance, a new field which holds much significance for the future. “The Oxford Master’s in Law and Finance will act as a launch-pad for a successful career in law, regulation, or academic finance,” explained Professor John Armour of Oxford, currently a visiting professor at Columbia Law School, and Academic Director of the new program.
The Master’s in Law and Finance will bring together legal practitioners, financial experts, economists, and academics, both as students of the program and in delivering the program, which will involve practical case studies that have been developed in partnership with industry participants.
Professor Timothy Endicott, Dean of the Faculty of Law at Oxford, explained the reason for developing this new program: “It is crucial for law schools to make a contribution to understanding the challenges of regulating markets in ways that enable commerce to thrive without allowing unmanaged risks to escalate into disasters.” Professor Endicott believes Oxford Law has “an important role in research and in training lawyers at the graduate level in law and finance.”
Recently, the University of Oxford’s Law Faculty brought together lawyers and financial economists, practitioners and academics, from the US and the UK, at a Law & Finance Forum in New York. At the Forum, speakers and panelists discussed national and international issues such as enforcing securities laws, shareholder activism and litigation, financial and corporate regulation following the financial crisis, and litigation financing and insurance.
Oxford Law’s John Armour and Paul Davies, Allen & Overy Professor of Corporate Law, were joined by legal practitioners and advisors in addressing these issues. The Forum was predominantly composed of Oxford Law alumni.
The Forum demonstrates Oxford Law’s commitment to enhancing its presence in the US and its ties with its US alumni, as well as its more general emphasis on law and finance.
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For more information, a photograph or to set up interviews, please contact the University of Oxford’s Faculty of Law on +44 1865 281050 or email lawfac@law.ox.ac.uk.
The Faculty of Law is the largest unit in the University’s social sciences division. Its members include many of the UK’s and the world’s leading legal scholars, earning the faculty its top (5*) rating in the 1996 and 2001 Research Assessments conducted by HEFCE. The 2008 RAE assessment showed that substantially more top-rated research activity went on in Law at Oxford from 2001-2007, than any other university in the UK.
For more information about the University of Oxford’s Faculty of Law, go to: http://www.law.ox.ac.uk.
SOURCE University of Oxford
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