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Biography
Marc Moore joined the School of Law in January 2025 as Chair in International Business and Commercial Law and Director of the LLM in International Business and Commercial Law. Previously, Marc was Chair in Corporate/Financial Law at University College London (2019-2024), where he also served as Vice Dean of the UCL Faculty of Laws. Marc has been a Reader in Corporate Law and Director of the Masters in Corporate Law (MCL) degree at the University of Cambridge (2014-2019). In addition, he has held teaching positions at the University of Bristol, the University of Auckland and Seattle University.
Marc is a Global Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame and has taught at both its UK and US campuses. In 2012, he was the recipient of a Philip Leverhulme Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Achievement. He is an advisor to the Astana International Financial Centre (AIFC) in Kazakhstan and has worked as an expert witness and consultant to international law firms. Marc is a regular media commentator on current issues concerning global corporate governance, regulation and compliance, including in the Wall Street Journal, the Times and BBC news programmes. He is a graduate of the University of Glasgow (LLB, 2001) and the University of Bristol (PhD, 2006).
Expertise Summary
Marc is an expert on UK and US/Delaware corporate law, corporate finance, private equity and M&A. He has written extensively on all these topics, and also on subjects including industrial relations, contract law, and law & economics. Marc is the author of 'Corporate Governance in the Shadow of the State' (2013, Hart), which was shortlisted for the 2013 SLS Peter Birks Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship. He is the co-author of 'Corporate Governance: Law, Regulation and Theory' (now in its second edition), the co-editor of 'A Research Agenda for Corporate Law' (2023, Edward Elgar), and the co-editor of Hart Publishing's prestigious Contemporary Studies in Corporate Law academic monograph series.