RESEARCH PROFILE

Since joining Warwick in October 2008, Lorraine has continued to develop her research in contextual and critical approaches to company law, corporate governance and business organisations. She has just completed a book on progressive corporate governance, assessing governance which can be said to either compel or resist social progress, and is currently writing a second edition of Critical Company Law. She is general editor of Warwick Law School's ssrn working papers, web editor for the Law School website and director of the multi-cultural scholars' programme. Lorraine convenes the company law stream for the Society of Legal Scholars.

BACKGROUND

BA (Hons) Law

LLM (by research)

PhD (bursary funded)

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• Talbot, L. E. (2012) Progressive Corporate Governance for the 21st Century , Routledge
• Dr Lorraine E Talbot (2011) ''Polanyi's Embeddedness' and Shareholder Stewardship: A contextual analysis of current Anglo-American corporate governance.'' Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly Winter (Volume 62 Number 4),
• Talbot, L. E. (2010) 'Enumerating old themes? Berle's concept of ownership and the historical development of English company law in context ' Seattle University Law Review 33 (4), 1201 - 1225
• Talbot, L. E. (2009) 'Critical corporate governance and the demise of the ultra vires doctrine' Common Law World Review 38 (2), 170 - 195
• Talbot, L. (2009) 'Keeping bad company: building societies - a case study' Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly 60 (4 ), 443 - 470

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RESEARCH DEGREES SUPERVISED

• THE ROLE OF CORPORATE GOVERNANCE THEORIES IN DEFINING THE REGULATORY FRAME WORK FOR THE ISLAMIC FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS., Date of Completion: 2013
• Co-operative Societies in Ethiopia, Date of Completion: 2013
• The Corporate Governance of Government Owned Enterprises in Qatar, Date of Completion: 2012