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Professor Blanaid Clarke

McCann FitzGerald Chair in Corporate Law (Law)
HOUSE 39, COLLEGE
      
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Professor Blanaid Clarke

McCann FitzGerald Chair in Corporate Law (Law)
HOUSE 39, COLLEGE

 Blanaid.Clarke@tcd.ie

 3531896 1632


Blanaid holds the McCann FitzGerald Chair in Corporate Law at Trinity College Dublin where she lectures in: Corporate Governance in the EU; Contract Law; Company Law; and Responsible Business, Ethics and ESG. She is Convenor of the School"s Corporate Law, Governance and Capital Markets Research Group and Director of the LLM Programmes in the Law School. Her research interests include: governance (corporate governance, fund governance and central bank governance); ethics; financial services law; securities law; and takeover law and she has published extensively in these areas. Blanaid is the Irish representative on the OECD Corporate Governance Committee and a member of the European Securities and Markets Authority's Shareholder Transactions Working Group (previously the Takeover Bids Network). She is Deputy Chairman of the Irish Banking Culture Board and works with the Irish Takeover Panel. She is also a member of the Institute of Banker's Certified Investment Fund Director Institute Advisory Committee. Blanaid is a Vice President of the Academic Board of the European Banking Institute and Deputy Chair of the Royal Irish Academy's Ethics, Politics, Law and Philosophy Committee. She is a member of: the European Model Company Act Group and the University of Oslo's Sustainability Law Research Group. Previously, she was also a member of: the IMF's Safeguards Assessments - 2022 External Expert Panel (2021-2022), the Irish Central Bank Commission (2010-2018); the European Securities and Markets Authority's Securities and Markets Stakeholder Group (2018-2020); the European Commission's Informal Expert Group on Company Law (2014-2018); and the Reflection Group on the Future of EU Company Law (2010-2011). She was on the editorial board of the Journal of Business Law and was one of the editors of Palmer's Company Law and (2009-2021) and Legal Studies (2011-2016).
  Banking Law   Business/Corporate Law   Capital Markets Law   Company Law   Contracts   Corporate Governance   Financial Services Regulation   Takeover Regulation
The Genesis of the Takeover Directive in, editor(s)M.Winner, S.Emmenegger, A.Recalde and R.Skog , Unfinished Business? Two Decades with the EU Takeover Directive, Cambridge University Press, 2026, pp7 - 31, [B Clarke (with R Skog)], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
The new Irish individual accountability regime and its role in driving cultural change in, editor(s)Andreas Kokkinis and Anat Keller , Corporate Governance and Culture in Financial Firms, Edward Elgar, 2025, [B Clarke], Book Chapter, IN_PRESS
B Clarke, Suitability Assessments: Assessing Bank Directors" Knowledge, Skills and Experience, European Business Law Review, 36, 2025, p231 - 258, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Country Report Ireland in, editor(s)Jens Ekkenga and Martin Winner , Sustainable Finance in the EU, Tubingen, Germany, Mohr Siebeck, 2024, pp106 - 129, [Blanaid Clarke and Félix E Mezzanotte], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
B Clarke, The Role of the Financial Services Board in the Third Decade of the 21st Century: Board Skills and Decision Making, Transformation in the Third Decade of the 21st Century - Challenges and Pressing Issues in the Realms of Company Law and Financial Markets Law, 8th Annual Conference of the Female Scholars' Network in Company and Financial Markets Law, Berlin, 10 May 2024, 2024, Conference Paper, IN_PRESS
B Clarke, The Quest for Strong Non-Executive Directors: What are we looking for?, Joint IMF-Sarb Regional Central Bank Governance Forum, Johannesburg and online, 3 October 2024, 2024, Invited Talk, PUBLISHED
B Clarke, The Genesis of the Takeover Directive, 20 Years EU Takeover Directive, Vienna, 7 November 2024, 2024, Invited Talk, PUBLISHED
B Clarke (and R Skog), The Genesis of the Takeover Directive, 2024, Working Paper, PUBLISHED
B.Clarke & A.Egli, Governance Challenges for the Boards of Investment Funds and Fund Managers: Evidence from Ireland, School of Law, Legal Studies Research Paper Series Paper N0. 13/2023, 2023, Working Paper, PUBLISHED
Company Law Legal Systems - Ireland in, editor(s)D.Busch, C.Gortos and G.Mc Meel , Liability of Financial Supervisors and Resolution Authorities, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2022, pp321 - 348, [Blanaid Clarke], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
  

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B Clarke, Board and Senior Management Stewardship for the Future, Strategic Foresight Symposium: Putting Strategic Foresight into Practice, Central Bank of Ireland, 11 February 2025, 2025, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED
B Clarke, Common Conduct Standards under the Central Bank's Individual Accountability Regime: A Case Study Approach,, McCann FitzGerald, Dublin, 16 January 2025, 2025, Invited Talk, PUBLISHED
B Clarke, Administrative measures and sanctions in the Banking Union and the Capital Markets Union: status quo and the way forward " Insights from Ireland, Capital Markets and Banking Unions, Law and the Courts: Challenges and Perspective, International Colloquium in memoriam of Luís Silva Morais, University of Bologna, 13 February 2025, 2025, Invited Talk, PUBLISHED
B Clarke, Board Diversity as a Driver of Value, Governance 360 Dublin: Future-Proofing Boards: Resilience and Leadership, Euronext Dublin, 9 April 2025, 2025, Invited Talk, PUBLISHED
B Clarke, Research & Public Policy Led Teaching, Research-led teaching and the Limits of Pedagogy, University of Birmingham, 4 April 2025, 2025, Invited Talk, PUBLISHED
B Clarke, Board Profiles, Skills and Qualifications, International Monetary Fund Central Bank High-Level Governance Forum, Yerevan, Armenia, Online, 28 February 2024, 2024, Invited Talk, PUBLISHED
B Clarke, Ethical Decision Making for Sustainability and Governance, McCann FitzGerald, Dublin, 14 March 2024, 2024, Invited Talk, PUBLISHED
B Clarke, EMCA & the Digitalisation Directive II, EMCA Network Annual Event, Vienna & Online, 25 September 2024, 2024, Invited Talk, PUBLISHED
B Clarke, Sustainability and ESG, Dublin International Disputes Week 2024 Conference, Dublin Castle, 2 October 2024, 2024, Invited Talk, PUBLISHED
B Clarke, The IBCB Case Studies and Beyond, Irish Banking Culture Board Annual Conference Dublin, Dublin, 17 October 2024, 2024, Invited Talk, PUBLISHED

  


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Blanaid's research interests include company law, corporate governance, fund governance, ethics & responsible business, accountability, capital markets law and takeover law.