Eilís Ferran

{{short description|Northern Irish solicitor, legal scholar, and academic administrator (born 1962)}} {{EngvarB|date=June 2017}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2017}} {{Infobox academic | honorific_prefix = Professor | name = Eilís Ferran | honorific_suffix = FBA | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = Eilís Veronica Deirdre Ferran | birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1962|3|14}} | birth_place = | death_date =  | death_place = | death_cause = | region = | other_names = | occupation = | period = | known_for = | title = Professor of Company and Securities Law | boards =  | spouse = {{marriage|Roderick Cantrill|1992}} | children = Two | awards =  | website = | education = | alma_mater = St Catharine's College, Cambridge | thesis_title = | thesis_url = | thesis_year = | school_tradition = | doctoral_advisor = | influences =  | era = | discipline = Law | sub_discipline = {{hlist|Financial regulation|company law|corporate finance law}} | workplaces = {{plainlist| * St Catharine's College, Cambridge * Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge }} | doctoral_students = | notable_students =  | main_interests = | notable_works = | notable_ideas = | influenced =  | signature = | signature_alt = | signature_size = | footnotes = }} '''Eilís Veronica Ferran''', FBA (born 14 March 1962) is a Northern Irish solicitor, legal scholar, and academic administrator. As an academic, she specialises in company law, financial regulation, and corporate finance. She has been Professor of Company and Securities Law at the University of Cambridge since 2005, and its Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Institutional and International Relations since 2015.

==Early life and education== Ferran was born on 14 March 1962 in Belfast, Northern Ireland.<ref name="Who's Who 2017">{{cite web|title=FERRAN, Prof. Eilís Veronica, (Mrs Roderick Cantrill)|url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U258639|website=Who's Who 2017|publisher=Oxford University Press|accessdate=3 May 2017|date=November 2016}}</ref> She was educated at St Dominic's High School, an all-girls Catholic School in Belfast.<ref name="Who's Who 2017" /> In 1980, she matriculated into St Catharine's College, Cambridge to study law.<ref name="Faculty bio">{{cite web|title=Professor Eilis Ferran|url=https://www.law.cam.ac.uk/people/academic/ev-ferran/28|website=Faculty of Law|publisher=University of Cambridge|accessdate=3 May 2017}}</ref><ref name="college bio">{{cite web|title=Professor Eilis Ferran|url=http://www.caths.cam.ac.uk/directory/professor-eilis-ferran|website=St Catharine's College|publisher=University of Cambridge|accessdate=3 May 2017}}</ref> She was the first member of her family to attend the University of Cambridge. She graduated with a first class Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1983;<ref name="Who's Who 2017" /><ref name="CV" /> as is the privilege of Cambridge graduates, she was able to apply for her BA to be promoted to a Master of Arts (MA Cantab) degree in 1986.<ref name="Who's Who 2017" /> In 1992, she was awarded a Doctorate of Philosophy (PhD) by the University of Cambridge by Special Regulations,<ref name="CV" /> that is to say through published works rather than a doctoral thesis.<ref>{{cite web|title=PhD by Special Regulations|url=http://www.cambridgestudents.cam.ac.uk/your-course/examinations/graduate-exam-information/higher-degrees/phd-special-regulations|website=Cambridge students|publisher=University of Cambridge|accessdate=3 May 2017}}</ref>

==Career==

===Legal career=== From 1984 to 1986, Ferran was an articled clerk at Coward Chance (now known as Clifford Chance).<ref name="Who's Who 2017" /><ref name="Bencher" /> She qualified as a solicitor in 1986.<ref name="Who's Who 2017" /> From September to December 2012, she was a specialist advisor to the House of Lords European Union Committee during its inquiry into banking union.<ref name="Faculty bio" />

===Academic career=== In 1986, Ferran returned to St Catharine's College, Cambridge (her ''alma mater'') as a lecturer in law.<ref name="Who's Who 2017" /> She was elected a Fellow of St Catharine's College in 1987.<ref name="college bio" /> She was also an assistant lecturer from 1988 to 1991 and a lecturer from 1991 to 2000 at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge.<ref name="Who's Who 2017" /> She was Director of the Centre for Corporate and Commercial Law from April 1999 to September 2003, and its Co-Director from January 2006 to 2010.<ref name="CV">{{cite web|title=CURRICULUM VITAE OF EILÍS FERRAN|url=https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/view/13807064/curriculum-vitae-of-eilis-ferran-faculty-of-law-|website=Yumpu|accessdate=3 May 2017}}</ref> In 2000, the university promoted her to Reader in Corporate Law and Financial Regulation.<ref name="Who's Who 2017" /><ref name="ecgi">{{cite web|title=Professor Eilis Ferran|url=http://www.ecgi.org/members_directory/member.php?member_id=462|publisher=European Corporate Governance Institute|accessdate=3 May 2017}}</ref> In 2005, she was appointed Professor of Company and Securities Law;<ref name="Who's Who 2017" /> this made her the first woman to hold a professorship in Cambridge's Faculty of Law.<ref name="Hinchingbrooke">{{cite web|title=Professor Eilis Ferran|url=http://www.hinchingbrookeschool.net/news/?pid=8&nid=2&storyid=427|website=Hinchingbrooke School|accessdate=3 May 2017}}</ref> From April 2012 to 2015, she served as the Chair of the Faculty of Law.<ref name="Who's Who 2017" /><ref name="Faculty bio" /><ref name="V-C bio">{{cite web|title=Professor Eilís Ferran FBA|url=http://www.v-c.admin.cam.ac.uk/professor-eilis-ferran-fba|website=Vice-Chancellor's Office|publisher=University of Cambridge|accessdate=3 May 2017}}</ref> Since 1 October 2015, she has been the Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Institutional and International Relations.<ref name="Network">{{cite web|title=University of Cambridge appoints new Pro-Vice-Chancellors|url=https://www.cambridgenetwork.co.uk/news/university-appoints-new-pro-vice-chancellors/|website=Cambridge Network|accessdate=3 May 2017|date=9 January 2015}}</ref>

Ferran has held a number of visiting appointments. In April 2002, she was a visiting professor to the University of Hong Kong. From July to August 2004, she was a Chapman Tripp Fellow at the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. From July to August 2009, she was a visiting professor at the Law Faculty of the University of Auckland, New Zealand. From July to August 2010, she was a visiting professor at Harvard Law School, United States.<ref name="CV" />

==Personal life== In 1992, Ferran married Roderick Cantrill, who is the Bursar of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. Together they have one son and one daughter.<ref name="Who's Who 2017" />

==Honours== In 2013, Ferran was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.<ref name="FBA">{{cite web|title=Professor Eilís Ferran|url=http://www.britac.ac.uk/users/professor-eil%C3%ADs-ferran|website=The British Academy|accessdate=3 May 2017}}</ref> On 11 November 2014, she was appointed an Honorary Bencher of the Middle Temple.<ref name="Bencher">{{cite web|title=Masters of the Bench: Professor Eilis Ferran|url=https://www.middletemple.org.uk/bencher-persons-view?cid=45151|website=The Honourable Society of the Middle Temple|accessdate=3 May 2017}}</ref>

==Selected works==

* {{cite book |last1=Ferran |first1=Eilís |title=Mortgage Securitisation: Legal Aspects |date=1992 |publisher=Butterworths |location=London |isbn=978-0406109408}} * {{cite book |editor1-last=Ferran |editor1-first=Eilís |editor2-last=Goodhart |editor2-first=Charles A. E. |editor2-link=Charles Goodhart |title=Regulating Financial Services and Markets in the 21st Century |date=2001 |publisher=Hart Publishing |location=Oxford |isbn=978-1841132792}} * {{cite book |last1=Ferran |first1=Eilís |title=Building an EU Securities Market |date=2004 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |isbn=978-0521847223}} * {{cite book |last1=Ferran |first1=Eilis |title=Principles of Corporate Finance Law |date=2008 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=New York |isbn=978-0199230501 |edition=1st}} * {{cite book |last1=Ferran |first1=Eilís |last2=Moloney |first2=Niamh |last3=Hill |first3=Jennifer G. |last4=Coffee Jr |first4=John C. |title=The Regulatory Aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis |date=2012 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |isbn=978-1107024595}} * {{cite book |last1=Ferran |first1=Eilís |last2=Ho |first2=Look Chan |title=Principles of Corporate Finance Law |date=2014 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |isbn=978-0199671342 |edition=2nd}} * {{cite book |editor1-last=Moloney |editor1-first=Niamh |editor2-last=Ferran |editor2-first=Eilís |editor3-last=Payne |editor3-first=Jennifer |editor1-link=Niamh Moloney |editor3-link= Jennifer Payne |title=The Oxford Handbook of Financial Regulation |date=2015 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |isbn=978-0199687206}}

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