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George Walker BA, LLB (Hons), DIPLP (Glasgow), DAES (Bruges), LLM (London), PhD (London), DPhil (Oxford)
George Walker is Professor in International Financial Law at Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary, University of London. He is a Solicitor in Scotland, England and Wales and a Member of the New York Bar. George is currently an examiner for the Hong Kong University and the Securities Institute and a legal consultant with Farrer & Co. and the International Monetary Fund. He is also a Senior Fellow in Banking Law at the London Institute of International Banking, Finance and Development Law and a Professorial Fellow at the Asian Institute of International Financial Law, University of Hong Kong and the Institute for International Banking and Finance Law in Dallas, Texas. Amongst his former roles, George was an Affiliate Lecturer in Law at Cambridge University, visiting researcher at Harvard University and acted as a consultant on a number of law reform projects with the World Bank, the EBRD, the Asia Development Bank and with various national governments, and served as Executive Editor of the Financial Times 'Financial Regulator Report' and now Informa 'Financial Regulation International'. [Additional Information]
Research Interests
George's current research is focused on a number of key trends in banking and financial law at the UK, European and international law levels. Current major research proposals are in the areas of UK Financial Regulatory Reform and International Capital Standards.
Publications Since 2001
Financial Markets and Exchanges Law (Co-Editor with M. Blair), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006, 552, ISBN: 0199285802 [URL]
Financial Markets and Exchanges, in M. Blair and G. Walker (Editors), Financial Markets and Exchanges Law, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006, ISBN: 0199285802 [URL]
International Exchange Standards, in M. Blair and G. Walker (Editors), Financial Markets and Exchanges Law, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006, ISBN: 0199285802 [URL]
Financial Services Law (Co-Editor with M. Blair), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006, 1040, ISBN: 0199285799 [URL]
Financial Services Authority, in M. Blair and G. Walker (Editors), Financial Services Law, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006, ISBN: 0199285799 [URL]
Banks and Banking, in M. Blair and G. Walker (Editors), Financial Services Law, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006, ISBN: 0199285799 [URL]
European Financial Programme: Content, Structure and Completion [2004] 15(3) European Business Law Review 305-664, ISSN: 0959-6941 [URL]
Banking and Financial Services Regulation, 3ed, (Co-author with W. Blair, A. Allison, G. Morton, K. Palmer and P. Richards-Carpenter), London: Butterworths, 2002, ISBN: 0406949875 [URL]
Financial Regulation Service (Assistant Editor), London: Butterworths, 2002-2006, ISBN: 0406941319 [URL]
International Banking Regulation: Law, Policy and Practice, The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 2001, 622, ISBN: 904119794X [URL]
Blackstone's Guide to the Financial Services and Markets Act, 2000 (Co-author with M. Blair, L. Minghella, M. Taylor and M. Threipland), Oxford: Blackstone Press, 2001, ISBN: 1841741167 [URL]
Encyclopaedia of Banking Law (Assistant Editor), London: Butterworths, 1996-2006, ISBN: 0406998108 [URL]
