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
- Boeger, N & Villiers, C, 2017, ‘Shaping the Corporate Landscape: Towards corporate reform and enterprise diversity’. Hart Publishing, Oxford
- 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
- Villiers, C, 2017, ‘Corporate Transparency Does not Work for Global Supply Chains’. in: Jean Du Plessis (eds) Global Supply Chains.
- 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, ‘Executive Pay: A socially-oriented distributive justice framework’. Company Lawyer, vol 37., pp. 139-154
- Villiers, C, 2016, ‘Legal Ambiguity in Corporate Governance’. in: Stefan Wrbka (eds) The Shifting Meaning of Legal Certainty. Hart Publishing
- 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 & 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, 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
- Villiers, C, 2011, ‘Women on Boards: Report from the UK’. European Company Law, vol 8., pp. 94 - 99
