Dr Francesco De Pascalis
Senior Lecturer in Financial Law
Elliott Jaques 068
- Email: francesco.depascalis@brunel.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)1895 266144
Summary
Dr Francesco De Pascalis joined Brunel Law School in 2017. Before that, he worked as a research fellow at the 'Chair for Law and Finance' held by Professor Kern Alexander at the University of Zurich, which he joined in 2013. He has also taught, as external lecturer, at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS), University of London. He qualified as a Solicitor in Italy in 2008. Dr De Pascalis currently holds external examiner positions at the University of Glasgow-Law School. Dr De Pascalis's research interests include banking and finance law, financial regulation, digital finance and technology, and sustainable finance. his monograph Credit Ratings and Market Over-reliance: An International Legal Analysis (Brill-Nijoff 2017) is the first book analysing, from a legal perspective, the phenomenon of ivestors' over-reliance on external credit ratings and providing a critical assessment of the post-crisis regulatory strategies to tackle the phenomenon in question. At present, Dr De Pascalis is working on two book projects: Open Banking: Global Development and Regulation (forthcoming Routledge 2023) in co-authorship with Dr Monomita Nandy (Brunel Business School) and Dr Alan Brener (UCL), which will be part of the Routledge International Studies in Money and Banking series'; and Principles of Law and Finance (forthcoming Edward Elgar 2026). Dr De Pascalis has presented his research and delivered workshops/masterclasses in the UK and abroad (inter alia Norway, The Netherlands, Belgium). He is member of the editorial board of top academic journal such as Law and Financial Markets Review (Taylor and Francis). His research ahs been published in established academic journals such as the International and Comparative Corporate Law Journal, European Business Law Review, Capital Markets Law Journal, European Journal of Law Reforms, Business Law Review, King's Law Journal, and in edited collections. He served three years (2019-2021) as co-convener of the UK Society of Legal Scholars (SLS) Banking and Financial Services Law Section. He is also Fellow of the Society of Advanced Legal Studies, Fellow of the European Law Institute, and Honorary Fellow of the Asian Institute of International Financial Law (AIIFL) University of Hong Kong. Dr De Pascalis is member of the Centre for AI: Social and Digital Innovation (СʪÃÃÊÓƵ), the Research Centre for Law, Economics and Finance (СʪÃÃÊÓƵ) and of the Research Network on Sustainable Finance (University of Zurich). At Brunel Law School he teaches the following courses at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels: Banking Law, Theory of International Financial Regulation (module leader), Practice of International Financial Regulation, Banking and Technology Law).
Qualifications:
Fellow of Higher Education Academy
PHD, IALS University of London
LLM in Banking and Finance Law, Queen Mary university of London
Master's degree in Advanced Studies of EU and Transnational Law, University of Trento (Italy)
LLB, University of Parma (Italy)
Registered lawyer (Verona Bar Association)
Newest selected publications
De Pascalis, F. and Brener, A. (2024) 'Open Banking. Global Development and Regulation'. London: Routledge. ISSN 13: 978-1-032-36317-2
Barnes, V. and De Pascalis, F. (2023) 'De-banking Nigel Farage: Exclusionary Banking and its Regulation'. Journal of International Banking Law and Regulation, 38 (12). pp. 427 - 431. ISSN: 0267-937X
De Pascalis, F., Barnes, V. and Surana, R. (2023) 'Slashing the Boardroom: Regulating the Culture of International Bank Management'.Financial Law and Regulation Conference. London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). [unpublished]
Barnes, V. and De Pascalis, F. (2023) 'R v Natwest (2021): Another turning point in the regulation of big banks?'. The Company Lawyer, 44 (5). pp. 143 - 151. ISSN: 0144-1027
De Pascalis, F. (2022) 'Crowdlending and crowdinvesting in Europe: A comparative analysis between the UK and EU regulatory frameworks', in Eugenia Macchiavello. (ed.) Regulation on European Crowdfunding Service Providers for Business: A Commentary (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2022). pp. 646 - 662.