Professor Joan Loughrey

Professor Joan Loughrey’s research interests are in corporate law and corporate governance-particularly the regulation of directors and enforcement of directors' duties, shareholder litigation, and the regulation of the legal profession. She has published widely in these areas in peer reviewed journals including the Modern Law Review, the Law Quarterly Review, Legal Studies and the Journal of Law and Society. Her monograph, Corporate Lawyers and Corporate Governance was published by Cambridge University Press in 2011.
She has been the Principal Investigator on a £281,517 interdisciplinary AHRC funded project 'Business Judgment and the Courts' working with colleagues in the School of Law, Leeds, and the Management School, Liverpool University, and a Co-Investigator on an £325k ESRC/Newton Fund award for a project entitled 'Developing financial systems to support sustainable growth in China' led by Professor Gerard McCormick (Leeds). She was previously the editor of the Corporate Governance chapter in Gore-Browne in EU Company Law.

After obtaining her degree in Jurisprudence from Somerville College, Oxford University, she qualified as a solicitor in England and Wales and then in Hong Kong before entering academic. Prior to her present position she was at the University of Leeds for 18 years and a Director of its Centre for Business Law and Practice.