Rosa Maria Lastra LLB, MA (Valladolid), LLM (Harvard), PhD (Madrid)

Rosa Maria Lastra is a Professor in International Financial and Monetary Law at CCLS. Prior to joining CCLS, she was Assistant Professor and Director of the International Finance and Business Program at Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs in New York. She has served as a consultant to the International Monetary Fund, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank and the UK Treasury Select Committee. She is a member of the European Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee, an Associate Member of the Financial Markets Group of the London School of Economics and an Affiliated Scholar of the Center for the Study of Central Banking at New York University Law School. She has published extensively in the field of financial law and is a general editor of the Journal of Banking Regulation.

Research Interests

Central banking, financial law and regulation, international banking, international monetary law, law reform in emerging economies and EU financial law

Publications Since 2001

Legal Foundations of International Monetary Stability, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006, 600, ISBN: 0199269343 [URL]

Risk-based Capital Requirements and their Impact upon the Banking Industry: Basel II and CAD III [2004] 12(3) Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance 225-239, ISSN: 1358-1988 [URL]

The Governance Structure for Financial Supervision and Regulation in Europe [2003] 10(1) Columbia Journal of European Law 49-68, ISSN: 1076-6715 [URL]

Cross-Border Bank Insolvency: Legal Implications in the Case of Banks Operating in Different Jurisdictions in Latin America [2003] 6(1) Journal of International Economic Law 79-110, ISSN: 1369-3034 [URL]

Regulating European Securities Markets: Beyond the Lamfalussy Report, in M. Andenas and Y. Avreginos (Editors), Financial Markets in Europe: Towards a Single Regulator?, London: Kluwer Law International, 2003, 211-222, ISBN: 9041121595 [URL]

Comparative Aspects of Depositor Protection Schemes: Comparative (Co-author with D. Arner) in D. Arner and J. Lin (Editors), Financial Regulation: A Guide to Structural Reform, Hong Kong: Thomson Sweet & Maxwell Asia, 2003, 463-478, ISBN: 9626611979 [URL]

Cross-Border Trade in Banking Services, in G. Alpa and F. Capriglione (Editors), Diritto Bancario Comunitario: Le Leggi Commentate, Turin: UTET, 2002, 433-455, ISBN: 8802059209 [URL]

IMF Conditionality [2002] 4(2) Journal of International Banking Regulation 167-182, ISSN: 1465-4830 [URL]

How Much Accountability for Central Banks and Supervisors? [2001] 12(2) Central Banking 69-75, ISSN: 0960-6319 [URL]

Cross-Border Trade in Financial Services, in I. Fletcher, M. Cremona and L. Mistelis (Editors), Foundations and Perspectives of International Trade Law, London: Sweet & Maxwell, 2001, 428-436, ISBN: 0421741007 [URL]

Public Accountability in the Financial Sector (Co-author with H. Shams), in E. Ferran and C. Goodhart (Editors), Regulating Financial Services and Markets in the 21st Century, Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2001, 165-188, ISBN: 1841132799 [URL]

Central Bank Independence in Ordinary and Extraordinary Times (Co-author with G. Miller), in Jan Kleineman (Editor), Central Bank Independence: The Economic Foundations, the Constitutional Implications and Democratic Accountability, Stockholm: Norstedts Juridik, 2001, 31-50, ISBN: 9139006867 [URL]

The Reform of the International Financial Architecture (Editor), London and Boston: Kluwer Law International, 2001, 370, ISBN: 9041198024 [URL]

The Bretton Woods Institutions in the XXIst Century, in R. Lastra (Editor), The Reform of the International Financial Architecture, London: Kluwer Law International, 2001, 67-90, ISBN: 9041198024 [URL]

The Governance Structure for Financial Regulation in Europe, London: LSE Financial Markets Group, 2001 [URL]

Other Selected Publications

Bank Failures and Bank Insolvency Law in Economies in Transition (Co-editor with H.N. Schiffman), London: Kluwer Law International, 1999, 333, ISBN: 9041197141 [URL]

Central Banking and Banking Regulation, London: Financial Markets Group, London School of Economics, 1996, 329, ISBN: 0753007258 [URL]

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