“Cally’s range of knowledge and accomplishment in corporate and securities law is remarkable, and will be a tremendous resource for the Institute’s work in these areas,” remarked Robson.
February 1, 2016 – William Robson, President and CEO of the C.D. Howe Institute, announces the appointment of Cally Jordan, Estey Chair in Business Law, University of Saskatchewan, as a Research Fellow.
“Cally’s range of knowledge and accomplishment in corporate and securities law is remarkable, and will be a tremendous resource for the Institute’s work in these areas,” remarked Robson. “We’re excited to welcome her to our research team.”
Ms. Jordan is the Estey Visiting Chair in Business Law at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada and is a full-time faculty member at Melbourne Law School. She has also taught at numerous law faculties around the world, including McGill, Osgoode Hall, Duke, Georgetown, Tulane, the Centre for Transnational Legal Studies (London) and the International University College (Torino). More recently, she has visited at the Max Planck Institute (Hamburg), the London School of Economics, the British Institute for International and Comparative Law and Georgetown Law Centre. In 2013, she was the inaugural P.R.I.M.E. Finance (Lord Woolf) Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
A member of both the American and European Law Institutes, she also serves on the Local Capital Markets Advisory Council of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, London.
She has both civil and common law degrees from McGill University and a DEA from the Université de Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne). She also holds an MA from the University of Toronto.
Admitted to practice in Ontario, Quebec, New York, California and Hong Kong, she spent several years with Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton in New York City. She has advised governments and international financial institutions around the world on corporate governance, capital markets and commercial law reforms.
Her latest book, International Capital Markets: Law and Institutions, Oxford University Press, appeared in July 2014.
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