Staff profile

Affiliations

• Associate Professor of Financial Law at Durham Law School
• Director for International Development
• Invited Professor at Católica Lisbon School of Law

Clara Martins Pereira is Associate Professor of Financial Law and Director for International Development at Durham Law School, and Invited Professor at Católica Lisbon School of Law. Her research lies at the intersection of financial law and regulation, technological innovation, and sustainable development.

In particular, she is interested in examining how law and legal institutions can be used to address the changes experienced by financial systems in a world of technological disruption and growing inequality. She also maintains a strong interest in company law, tort law, and contract law.

Clara holds a DPhil, an MPhil, and a Magister Juris from the University of Oxford, as well as an MSc in Law and Business and an LLB in Law from Católica Lisbon School of Law. Before moving to Durham, Clara was Lecturer in Financial Law at the Dickson Poon School of Law (King’s College London), Stipendiary Lecturer in Tort Law at St. Catherine’s College (University of Oxford), and Departmental Lecturer and Tutor in Company Law at Oxford Law School. During her DPhil, she was Tutor in Company Law, Tort Law, and Contract Law at various Oxford colleges, as well as Guest Teacher in International Financial Law and Law of Business Associations at the London School of Economics.

Clara was also a Visiting Scholar at Columbia Law School, Sapienza Università di Roma, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg, Facultat de Dret de la Universitat de Barcelona, Tashkent State University of Law, Mackenzie University, São Paulo, and REW University of Graz. Before entering academia, she worked as a Capital Markets lawyer at Portuguese law firm PLMJ. In addition to her academic work, Clara has been working as a consultant for various international organisations including the World Bank and ICF.

Email

clara.martins-pereira@durham.ac.uk

Room number

Palatine Centre, room 128 (provisionally 220)

• Financial Regulation
• Financial Law
• Law and Financial Technology (FinTech)
• Law and Sustainable Finance
• Corporate Finance Law
• Company Law
• Tort Law
• Contract Law

Authored book

• Martins Pereira, C. (2019). A Regulação do Crowdfunding de Capital no Ordenamento Jurídico Português. UCE

Chapter in book

• Martins Pereira, C. The Uncertain Path Towards Open Finance: Mutual Lessons from the United Kingdom and European Union Regulatory Approaches. In A Research Agenda for Financial Law and Regulation. Edward Elgar Publishing
• Keller, A., Martins Pereira, C., & Lucas Pires, M. (2023). The European Union’s Approach to Artificial Intelligence and the Challenge of Systemic Risk. In H. Sousa Antunes, P. M. Freitas, A. L. Oliveira, C. Martins Pereira, E. Vaz Sequeira, & L. Barreto Xavier (Eds.), Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence and the Law (415-439). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-41264-6_22
• Payne, J., & Martins Pereira, C. (2023). The Future of the UK IPO. In I. Chiu, & I. MacNeil (Eds.), Research Handbook on Global Capital Markets Law. Edward Elgar Publishing
• Martins Pereira, C. (2014). Residência e Ausência – Anotação aos Artigos 82.º a 121.º do Código Civil. In C. Fernandes, & B. Proença (Eds.), Comentário ao Código Civil – Parte Geral. UCE

Edited book

• Sousa Antunes, H., Freitas, P. M., Oliveira, A. L., Martins Pereira, C., Vaz Sequeira, E., & Barreto Xavier, L. (Eds.). Artificial Intelligence, Law and Beyond. Springer Verlag. Manuscript submitted for publication

Journal Article

• Martins Pereira, C. (2024). O sistema financeiro como laboratório da Inteligência Artificial. Diurna, 4(XIV),
• Martins Pereira, C. (2023). The Digital Tokenisation of Non-financial Assets: Challenges to English Private Law. Católica Law Review, 7(2), 9-46. https://doi.org/10.34632/catolicalawreview.2023.13176
• Martins Pereira, C. (2020). Unregulated Algorithmic Trading: Testing the Boundaries of the European Union Algorithmic Trading Regime. Journal of Financial Regulation, 6(2), https://doi.org/10.1093/jfr/fjaa008
• Martins Pereira, C. (2016). Reviewing the literature on behavioural economics. Capital Markets Law Journal, 11(3), https://doi.org/10.1093/cmlj/kmw013

Other (Print)

• Martins Pereira, C., & Payne, J. (2022). The Future of the UK IPO. https://blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/business-law-blog/blog/2022/03/future-uk-ipo

Report

• Meneses, A., Muro, S., & Martins Pereira, C. (2021). How Insolvency & Creditor/Debtor Regimes Can Help Address Nonperforming Loans. [No known commissioning body]