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
- 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
- Villiers, C & Mahonen, J, 2015, ‘Article 11: Integrated reporting or non-financial reporting?’. in: Beate Sjafjell, Anja Wiesbrock (eds) The Greening of European Business under EU Law: Taking Article 11 TFEU Seriously. Routledge, pp. 118-143
- Villiers, C, 2013, ‘Narrative reporting and Enlightened Shareholder Value under the Companies Act 2006’. in: Andrew Keay, Joan Loughrey (eds) Directors’ Duties and Shareholder Litigation in the Wake of the Financial Crisis. Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 97-132
- J, B, J, BA, B, C, I, M, G, M & Villiers, C, 2011, ‘Boyle and Birds Company Law’. Jordans
- Villiers, C, 2011, ‘Directors' Duties and the company's internal structures under the UK Companies Act 2006: Obstacles for Sustainable Development’. International and Comparative Corporate Law Journal, vol 8., pp. 47 - 75
- Villiers, C, 2011, ‘Women on Boards: Report from the UK’. European Company Law, vol 8., pp. 94 - 99
- Villiers, C, 2010, ‘Has the Financial Crisis Revealed the Concept of the ‘Responsible Owner' to be a Myth?’. in: Iain MacNeil, Justin O’Brien (eds) The Future of Financial Regulation. Hart Publishing, pp. 287 - 306
