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Dr. Felix Mezzanotte

Assistant Professor (Law)
      
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Dr. Felix Mezzanotte

Assistant Professor (Law)

 FELIX.MEZZANOTTE@tcd.ie

 


Félix teaches courses in financial services law, legal aspects of sustainable finance, company law and insolvency law. His research lies at the intersection of law, sustainability and finance with focus on investor protection and information disclosure problems. His work has been published in highly-regarded law journals including the Journal of Corporate Law Studies, Capital Markets Law Journal, European Law Journal, Journal of Antitrust Enforcement and the Review of Banking & Financial Law, among others. Félix completed a five-year tenure as Director of the MSc in Law and Finance Programme jointly managed by our school and Trinity Business School. He also collected vast international experience prior to Trinity. Félix taught law at the Faculty of Business of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University for almost a decade and he was awarded the Faculty of Business Award for Outstanding Teaching. Early in his career, he worked as policy advisor for the World Bank in Washington DC in the areas of pension, access to credit and property rights and as a research associate at the Centre for Competition Policy, University of East Anglia, Norwich (UK). As visiting scholar, Félix completed research projects at Columbia Law School (Columbia Center for Sustainable Investment), Melbourne Law School, Koguan Law School (Shanghai Jiao Tong University) and the Peter Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia. Félix earned his undergraduate law degree in Buenos Aires (UNMDP) and graduate degrees in the United Kingdom at the University of East Anglia, University of London (SOAS) and the University of Warwick. PhD/Doctoral Candidates: Candidates considering or planning undertaking doctoral studies in law are strongly encouraged to contact Félix directly: felix.mezzanotte@tcd.ie. He is particularly keen to supervise students interested in legal problems related to sustainability in companies and financial markets such us greenwashing, corporate sustainability reporting, investor protection, regulatory compliance, enforcement problems in sustainable finance, among other topics. Drafts of the publications cited below are available in the SSRN website and in research gate at: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Felix_Mezzanotte.
  Antitrust Law   Banking Law   Business Law   Business/Corporate Law   Capital Markets Law   Company law   Comparative law   Competition Law   Competiton policy   Consumer behaviour, society   DIGITAL   ECONOMICS   Economics and Law   EU Financial Services Law   EU REGULATIONS   European Union Law   FINANCIAL MARKET INTEGRATION   FINANCIAL-MARKETS   Insolvency/Bankruptcy   LAW   Law and Finance   Law and Society   law and technology   Law Enforcement   Legal Reform   Sociolegal Studies   SUSTAINABILITY   SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT   Sustainable Finance
Project Title
 Sustainable Finance in Ireland: Integrating Social Objectives in Investment Decisions
From
01 April 2021
To
19 July 2023
Summary
This project investigated the legal constraints influencing the development of sustainable investment markets and products by Asset Management Firms (AMFs) in Ireland. To this end, the project aimed to explain the role of those AMFs in sustainable finance in Ireland and to identify and examine compliance problems and other legal constraints.
Funding Agency
Arts and Social Sciences Benefactions Fund, FAHSS, Trinity College Dublin
Project Type
Research
Project Title
 Comparing the Traditional Lecture With the Flipped Class in AF3507 Company Law
From
To
Summary
Funding Agency
Faculty of Business/ Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Programme
Learning and Teaching Enhancement Grants
Project Type
Educational
Project Title
 The Statutory Derivative Action in Hong Kong: Has It Increased Shareholder Protection? An Empirical Study
From
To
Summary
Funding Agency
Rearch Grants Council - Hong Kong
Programme
Early Career Scheme
Project Type
Law Research
Project Title
 Understanding the Effects of Presumptions of Market Dominance on the Enforcement of Article 17 of China's Antimonopoly Law: A Three-Dimensional Approach
From
To
Summary
Funding Agency
Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Programme
GRF
Project Type
Law Research
Project Title
 Teaching Company Law to Students of Accounting and Finance: Enhancing the Students' Learning Experience and Outcomes
From
To
Summary
Funding Agency
University Grants Committee - Hong Kong
Programme
Learning & Teaching Development Fund
Project Type
Educational

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Félix E Mezzanotte, Double Materiality, Principles-Based Rules, and the Quest for Quality Sustainability Reports, Journal of Corporate Law Studies, 26, (1), 2026, p285 - 319, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  URL
Félix E. Mezzanotte, Double Materiality, Discretion and the Quality of Reports: A Need to Monitor Materiality Determinations?, Sustainability Duties for Directors: The Way Forward?, Trinity College Dublin, 8 December, 2025, Conference Paper, PRESENTED
Félix E. Mezzanotte, The EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive: Double Materiality, Discretion and Greenwashing Risk, Company Law and Sustainability, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies - London, 24-25 October, 2025, Conference Paper, PRESENTED
Félix E Mezzanotte, Reflections on Corporate Sustainability Reporting under European Union Law, Canadian Academy of Legal Studies in Business Annual Conference, Québec City - Canada, 2-3 May, 2025, Conference Paper, PRESENTED
Félix E. Mezzanotte, Greenwashing Risk and Materiality-Based Reporting under the CSRD and ESRS, Symposium: Climate Change from an EU Perspective, Trinity College Dublin, 16 October, 2025, Conference Paper, PRESENTED
Félix E Mezzanotte, Persuasion and Deterrence: Enforcing Sustainable Finance Rules, Law and Financial Markets Review, 2025, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  URL
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
Felix E Mezzanotte, Corporate Sustainability Reporting: Double Materiality as Innovation, Rethinking Company Law, Newcastle University, United Kingdom, March 2024, 2024, Conference Paper, PRESENTED
Félix E. Mezzanotte, Breach of Sustainable Finance Rules: A Discussion on Non-Compliance and Regulatory Enforcement Strategies, Society of Legal Scholars' Annual Conference, University of Bristol - UK, 3-5 September, 2024, Conference Paper, PRESENTED
Félix E Mezzanotte, Corporate Sustainability Reporting: Double Materiality, Impacts and Legal Risk, Journal of Corporate Law Studies, DOI: 10.1080/14735970.2024.2319058, 2024, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  URL
  

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Trinity School of Law, Sustainability Duties for Directors: A Way Forward?, 8 December 2025, 2025, Trinity Business School Maharry Theatre B125 (Co-organiser), Meetings /Conferences Organised, PUBLISHED
Felix E Mezzanotte, Persuasion and Deterrence: Enforcing Sustainable Finance Rules, TCD Law School Seminar Series, Trinity College Dublin, 6 November, 2024, TCD School of Law, Invited Talk, PRESENTED
Felix E Mezzanotte (with Alexandros Seretakis), Corporate Sustainability Reporting and Blockchain / Research Note / Duke University - The FinReg Blog, 2024, -, Miscellaneous, PUBLISHED
Felix E Mezzanotte, Double Materiality in Corporate Sustainability Reporting, Comparative Takeovers and Securities Law, McCann Fitzgerald LLP, 2023, Conference Paper, PRESENTED
Felix E Mezzanotte, Examining the Reasons for Impact Materiality in EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting, Trinity Law School Seminar Series, 2023, Invited Talk, PRESENTED
Felix E Mezzanotte, Corporate Sustainability Reporting and Blockchain, Trinity Law School Seminar Series, Dublin, 2023, Invited Talk, PRESENTED
Felix E Mezzanotte, EU Sustainable Finance: Complex Rules and Compliance Problems / Research Note / Oxford Business Blog, 2023, -, Miscellaneous, PUBLISHED
Felix E Mezzanotte, Rule Complexity and NonCompliance: A Discussion on Sustainable Finance Rules and their Compliance Burdens, Trinity Law School Seminar Series, Dublin, 2022, Invited Talk, PRESENTED
Trinity Law School (Technologies, Law and Society Research Group), International Symposium 'Governing Artificial Intelligence: Designing Legal and Regulatory Responses', June 3rd, 2022, Trinity College Dublin (Panel Chair), Meetings /Conferences Organised, PRESENTED
Felix E Mezzanotte, Regulating Sustainability Risk and Sustainable Investments in Europe / Research Note / The FinReg Blog, Global Financial Markets Center, Duke University School of Law, 2022, -, Miscellaneous, PUBLISHED

  


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