Summary
Company Law; Employment Law; Spanish Law
Biography
Professor Charlotte Villiers studied law at the University of Hull and the London School of Economics and Political Science, and is a qualified solicitor. She has taught at the Universities of Sheffield and Glasgow, and was a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Oviedo in Spain. She was appointed Professor of Company Law in 2005. Her publications include European Company Law - Towards Democracy (Ashgate, 1998), and most recently, Corporate Reporting and Company Law (Cambridge University Press, 2006). She has also written extensively on UK industrial relations. Her current research sponsored by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) concerns female participation in company boards.
Activities / Findings
Corporate social responsibility and the potential use of and enforcement of codes of conduct
Disclosure as a regulatory mechanism for corporate governance (with Marc Moore)
The partnership policy and trade unions (with Tonia Novitz)
Corporate governance in the context of public service provision and the housing sector (with Morag McDermont)
Recent publications
- Villiers, C, 2018, ‘Collective Responsibility and the Limits of Disclosure in Regulating Global Supply Chains’. Deakin Law Review.
- Villiers, C, 2018, ‘Global supply chains and sustainability: the role of disclosure and due diligence laws’. in: Cambridge Handbook of Corporate Law, Corporate Governance and Sustainability. Cambridge University Press
- Villiers, C, 2018, ‘Boardroom Culture: An Argument for Compassionate Leadership’. European Business Law Review.
- Boeger, N & Villiers, C, 2018, ‘Shaping the Corporate Landscape: Towards corporate reform and enterprise diversity’. Hart Publishing, Oxford
- Villiers, C, 2017, ‘Corporate Transparency Does not Work for Global Supply Chains’. in: Jean Du Plessis (eds) Global Supply Chains.
- Villiers, C, 2017, ‘Corporate Governance, Responsibility and Compassion: Why we Should Care’. in: Nina Boeger, Charlotte Villiers (eds) Shaping the Corporate Landscape: Towards Corporate Reform and Enterprise Diversity. Hart Publishing, UK
- Russell, R & Villiers, C, 2017, ‘Gender Justice in Financial Markets’. in: Lisa Herzog (eds) Just Financial Markets?: Finance in a Just Society. Oxford University Press, Oxford
- Villiers, C, 2016, ‘Legal Ambiguity in Corporate Governance’. in: Stefan Wrbka (eds) The Shifting Meaning of Legal Certainty. Hart Publishing
- Villiers, C, 2016, ‘Executive Pay: A socially-oriented distributive justice framework’. Company Lawyer, vol 37., pp. 139-154
- Villiers, C & Mahonen, J, 2015, ‘Accounting, auditing and reporting: supporting or obstructing the sustainable companies objective?’. in: Beate Sjafjell, Benjamin J Richardson (eds) Company Law and Sustainability: Legal Barriers and Opportunities. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 175-225
