Dr. Felix Mezzanotte

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

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.