Professor George Walker, BA, LLB (Hons), DIPLP (Glasgow), DAES (Bruges), LLM (London), PhD (London), DPhil (Oxford)

Walker

Professor in International Financial Law

Location: Lincoln's Inn Fields
email: g.a.walker@qmul.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0)20 7882 8087
Fax: +44 (0)20 7882 8101

George Walker is a member of the Centre for Commercial Law Studies (CCLS). He is now a Barrister and Member of the Honourable Society of Inner Temple in London. He is also a Member of the New York Bar and was previously a Solicitor in Scotland and England and Wales. George is currently an examiner for the Hong Kong University and the Securities Institute and a legal consultant with the International Monetary Fund. He is an editing consultant with Farrer & Co and a Senior Fellow in Banking Law at the London Institute of International Banking, Finance and Development Law and a Professorial Fellow at the Asian Institute of International Financial Law, University of Hong Kong and the Institute for International Banking and Finance Law in Dallas, Texas. Among his former roles, George was an Affiliate Lecturer in Law at Cambridge University and a Visiting Researcher at Harvard University and Visiting Academic at Georgetown University in the US. He has acted as consultant on a number of law reform projects with the World Bank, the EBRD, the Asia Development Bank and with various national governments and has worked on around 30 major country projects in total. He has served as Executive Editor of the Financial Times 'Financial Regulator Report' and now Informa 'Financial Regulation International'. He is an editor and regular contributor to other major book and journal series.

Publications:

Professor George Walker's CV [PDF 151kb]

Publications Since 2001

  • Financial Services Law (Co-Editor with M. Blair), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006, 1040, ISBN: 0199285799
  • Financial Markets and Exchanges Law (Co-Editor with M. Blair), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006, 552, ISBN: 0199285802
  • Financial Markets and Exchanges, in M. Blair and G. Walker (Editors), Financial Markets and Exchanges Law, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006, ISBN: 0199285802
  • International Exchange Standards, in M. Blair and G. Walker (Editors), Financial Markets and Exchanges Law, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006, ISBN: 0199285802
  • Financial Services Authority, in M. Blair and G. Walker (Editors), Financial Services Law, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006, ISBN: 0199285799
  • Banks and Banking, in M. Blair and G. Walker (Editors), Financial Services Law, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006, ISBN: 0199285799
  • European Financial Programme: Content, Structure and Completion [2004] 15(3) European Business Law Review 305-664, ISSN: 0959-6941
  • Banking and Financial Services Regulation, 3ed, (Co-author with W. Blair, A. Allison, G. Morton, K. Palmer and P. Richards-Carpenter), London: Butterworths, 2002, ISBN: 0406949875
  • Financial Regulation Service (Assistant Editor), London: Butterworths, 2002-2006, ISBN: 0406941319
  • International Banking Regulation: Law, Policy and Practice, The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 2001, 622, ISBN: 904119794X
  • Blackstone's Guide to the Financial Services and Markets Act, 2000 (Co-author with M. Blair, L. Minghella, M. Taylor and M. Threipland), Oxford: Blackstone Press, 2001, ISBN: 1841741167
  • Encyclopaedia of Banking Law (Assistant Editor), London: Butterworths, 1996-2006, ISBN: 0406998108
  • Financial Services Regulation (Assistant Editor), London: 6 volumes loose leaf, Butterworths, 1996-2006, ISBN: 040699866
  • European Financial Programme: Content, Structure and Completion [2004] 15
  • European Business Law Review 305-664, ISSN: 0959-6941

Research interests:

George's current research is focused on a number of key trends in banking and financial law at the UK, European and international law levels. Current major research proposals are in the areas of UK Financial Regulatory Reform and International Capital Standards.