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Dr. Felix Mezzanotte

Assistant Professor (Law)
HOUSE 39, COLLEGE
      
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Dr. Felix Mezzanotte

Assistant Professor (Law)
HOUSE 39, COLLEGE

 FELIX.MEZZANOTTE@tcd.ie

 3531896 4901


Félix teaches courses in financial services law, legal aspects of sustainable finance and insolvency law. He acts as Director of the MSc in Law and Finance Programme jointly managed by our school and Trinity Business School. His most recent research has addressed problems in the field of law, sustainability and finance including issues of investor protection, sustainability/related information disclosure and compliance. His work has been published in highly-regarded law journals including the Capital Markets Law Journal, European Law Journal, Journal of Corporate Law Studies, Review of Banking & Financial Law, and the Journal of Antitrust Enforcement, among others. 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". In the past, Félix 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, he completed research projects at Columbia Law School (Columbia Center for Sustainable Investment), Melbourne Law School, and Koguan Law School (Center for Competition Law and Policy), Shanghai Jiao Tong University. 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 Felix 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, non-financial information disclosure, duties of investment advisers and managers in a sustainable finance context, investor protection, regulatory compliance, enforcement issues 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, Persuasion and Deterrence: Enforcing Sustainable Finance Rules, Law and Financial Markets Review, 2025, 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
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
Félix E Mezzanotte, Examining the Reasons for Impact Materiality in EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting, European Business Law Review, 35, (7), 2024, p925 - 946, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  URL
Felix E Mezzanotte, EU Sustainable Finance: Complex Rules and Compliance Problems, Review of Banking & Financial Law, 42, (2), 2023, p845 - 896, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  URL
Alexandros Seretakis and Félix E Mezzanotte, Blockchain and Corporate Sustainability Reporting, European Company Law, 20, (5), 2023, p97 - 102, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Blanaid Clarke and Felix E Mezzanotte, Sustainable Finance in Ireland, Sustainable Finance in European Jurisdictions, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Ferenc Madl Institute of Comparative Law, Budapest, 2022, Conference Paper, PRESENTED
Felix E Mezzanotte, Recent Law Reforms in EU Sustainable Finance: Regulating Sustainability Risk and Sustainable Investments, American University Business Law Review, 11, (2), 2022, p216 - 276, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  URL
Felix E Mezzanotte, Accountability in EU Sustainable Finance: Linking the Client's Sustainability Preferences and the MiFID II Suitability Obligation, Capital Markets Law Journal, (4), 2021, p1-21 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  URL
  

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Felix E Mezzanotte, Corporate Sustainability Reporting: Double Materiality as Innovation, Rethinking Company Law, Newcastle University, United Kingdom, March 2024, 2024, Conference Paper, PRESENTED
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, American University Business Law Review, 11, (2), 2022, 216 - 276, Miscellaneous, PUBLISHED

  


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I investigate the role of law in promoting sustainable financial markets and companies. With the European Green Deal and EU sustainable finance providing the policy context, my research enquires into the design, workings and compliance with recently created legal rules aimed at integrating sustainability preferences and performance in the decision-making process of investors and companies. Focussing on key problems of investor protection, information disclosure and regulatory enforcement strategies, my research is driven by the premise that a sound integration of sustainability factors in decision making renders the conduct of financial actors and companies more accountable towards the environment and society. More broadly, my research record includes publications in the field of competition law, company law and governance, financial law, and legal education.