Professor Luca Enriques, a highly distinguished Italian corporate law academic, will teach a module on comparative corporate governance as part of the Masters in Corporate Law programme in 2014-15.
Professor Enriques is Professor of Business Law at LUISS University, Department of Law, in Rome. Professor Enriques began his academic career at the Faculty of Law at the University of Bologna. From 2007 to 2012 he was a Commissioner at Consob, the Italian Securities and Exchange Commission. During the 2012-13 academic year Professor Enriques was Nomura Visiting Professor of International Financial Systems at Harvard Law School. He has served as an adviser to the Italian Ministry of the Economy and Finance on matters relating to corporate, banking and securities law and has frequently taken part as a panelist to European Union hearings and conferences on corporate governance and securities law. Professor Enriques is the editor of the European Corporate Governance Institute Working Paper Series in Law and his current research focuses on European banking law, takeover law and corporate governance in concentrated ownership systems.
Professor Enriques’ module will address comparative corporate governance mainly from a policy perspective. Topics that will be covered will include ownership structure in publicly traded companies, the one-share/one-vote principle and deviations from it, institutional investor activism, “tunnelling” (related party transactions designed to extract private benefits of control), corporate governance reforms in emerging markets and corporate law enforcement mechanisms.
Comparative corporate governance has been part of the MCL curriculum since the programme was launched. Professor Brian Cheffins, who taught a module on comparative corporate governance in 2012-13 and 2013-14, is on academic leave in 2014-15.
