Biography

Professor Blanaid Clarke BCL, MBS (Banking & Finance), Ph.D.

Blanaid’s research interests include corporate governance, securities law, takeover law and investor protection and she has published extensively in these areas. Blanaid is a member of the European Model Company Act Group and a member of theUniversity of Oslo’s Sustainable Companies project. She was recently a member of the European Commission’s Reflection Group on the Future of EU Company Law. Blanaid is one of the editors of Legal Studies and is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Business Law and Palmer’s Company Law. Blanaid works with the Irish Takeover Panel and is a Member of the European Securities and Markets Authority Takeover Bids Network. In October 2010, Blanaid was appointed to the board of the Irish Central Bank Commission.

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Professional Qualifications

• Ph.D. in Law, University of Manchester
• Barrister at Law Degree, Honourable Society of Kings Inns
• Master of Business Studies (Banking & Finance) Degree, University College Dublin
• Postgraduate Diploma in Business Studies, University College Dublin (1988)
• Bachelor of Civil Law Degree, University College Dublin

 

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Representations

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Administrative Functions

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Distinctions and Visitorships

• Visitor to Faculty of Law, Cambridge (April – May 2012)
• Member of the European Commission Reflection Group on the Future of EU Company Law (2010-2011).
• Appointed by the Minister for Finance to the Irish Central Bank Commission (2010-2013)
• CLPE Fellow, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto (March 2008)
• Visiting Scholar to the University of Queensland (February 2006)
• Parsons Visitor to the University of Sydney (February 2006)
• Recipient of a President’s Research Award in University College Dublin (1999)

 

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Education Details

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Employment Details

• Associate Professor, School of Law, University College Dublin
• Senior Lecturer, School of Law, University College Dublin
• College Lecturer, School of Law, University College Dublin
• Assistant Lecturer, School of Law, University College Dublin
• Corporate Finance Executive, Ulster Investment Bank

 

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Memberships /Associations

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Publications

Books/Chapters in Books

• B. Clarke and N. Hardiman “Hubris and Nemesis in Ireland” chapter in S. Konzelmann and M. Fovargue-Davies (eds.) Banking Systems in the Crisis: The Faces of Liberal Capitalism (Routledge, August 2012)
• B. Clarke and A. Bates “Liability of Asset Managers in Ireland” chapter in D. Busch and D. DeMott (eds.) Liability of Asset Mangers (Oxford University Press, March 2012) 
• B. Clarke “Corporate Law Scholarship in Ireland” chapter in J. Schweppe and T. Mohr (eds.)Thirty Years of Legal Scholarship: The Irish Association of Law Teachers (Roundhall Press, 2011)
• B. Clarke “The EU Takeovers Directive – A Shareholder Or Stakeholder Model?” chapter in P. Zumbansen and C. Williams (eds.) The Embedded Firm:  Labour, Corporate Governance And Finance Capitalism (Cambridge University Press July 2011)
• B. Clarke “Where Was The ‘Market For Corporate Control’ When We Needed It?” chapter in W. Sun (ed.), Corporate Governance and the Global Financial Crisis: International Perspectives (Cambridge University Press, July 2011)
• B. Clarke “Takeovers Regulation” chapter in Palmers Company Law (Thompson Sweet & Maxwell, London, 2010-2012)
• T. Lynn, R. Sharma. and B. Clarke “Corporate Governance in Banks of Ireland” chapter in A. Kostyuk, F. Takeda, and K. Hosono (eds.) Anti-Crisis Paradigms of Corporate Governance in Banks: A New Institutional Outlook (Virtus Interpress, Kiev, 2010).
• B. Clarke “Corporate Governance” An Oxymoron? – The Role Of Corporate Governance in the Current Banking Crisis” chapter in I. Mcneill and J. O’Brien (eds.) The Future Of Financial Regulation  (Hart Publishing, 2010)
• B Clarke “Corporate Governance Regulation and Board Decision Making During Takeovers” chapter in A. Thankom and J. Turner (eds.) Corporate Governance and Development (Edward Elgar, 2009)
• B. Clarke “The Relationship between Corporate Governance and Takeovers in Ireland” chapter in  R. Keane and A. O’Neill (eds.) Corporate Governance – An Irish Perspective (Thomson Roundhall, Dublin, 2009)
• B. Clarke “Inside Information and the Market Abuse Directive” chapter in P. Ali and G. Gregoriou (eds.) Insider Trading: Regulation and Analysis (CRC Press, London, 2008)
• B. Clarke and R. Clark, Contract Cases and Materials (Gill & Macmillan: Dublin 2008, 2004, 2000, 1994)
• B. Clarke, “The Market for Corporate Control and the Implications of the Takeover Directive (2004/25)” chapter in P.Ali and G. Gregoriou (Eds.) International Corporate Governance after Sarbanes-Oxley (John Wiley & Sons: New Jersey, 2006)
• B. Clarke and G. Fitzgerald, “Cross Border Mergers in Company Law: Removing the Final Barriers – Ireland” in International Federation of European Law XX Congress, Reports and Conclusions (British Institute of International and Comparative Law: London, 2002)
• B. Clarke, “Accommodating the Special Needs of the Financial Markets – R v  Panel on Takeovers and Mergers; Ex Parte Datafin plc” chapter in O’Dell (ed.) Leading Cases of the Twentieth Century, (Roundhall Sweet & Maxwell: Dublin, 2000)
• B. Clarke, Takeovers and Mergers Law in Ireland (Round Hall Sweet & Maxwell: Dublin, 1999)

Reports

• B. Clarke (with J. Antunes, T. Baums et al) Report of the Reflection Group on the Future of EU Company Law (European Commission Internal Market and Services, 5 April 2011). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1851654

Articles in International Peer-Reviewed Journals

• B. Clarke “Lessons Learned – The Corporate Governance Code For Credit Institutions And Insurance Undertakings” (2011) 33 Dublin University Law Journal  (Festschrift for Chief Justice Ronan Keane) 172-195
• B. Clarke “Reviewing Takeover Regulation in the Wake of the Cadbury Acquisition: Regulation in a Twirl [2011] Journal of Business Law 298-308
• B. Clarke “Reinforcing the Market for Corporate Control” [2011] European Business Law Review 517-540 (and editor of this special edition)
• B. Clarke, ‘Directors’ Duties in a Changing World: Lessons from the Cadbury Plc Takeover’. (2010) 7 European Company Law 204–209
• B. Clarke “Insider Dealing: Getting Under the Skin of Fyffes Plc v DCC Plc & Others” [2009] 1 Journal of Business Law 68-91 
• B. Clarke “The Takeovers Directive – Is a Little Regulation Better Than No Regulation?”(2009) 15 (2) European Law Journal174–197
• B. Clarke “Takeover Regulation– Through the Regulatory Looking Glass” 8 German Law Journal 381-412 (2007)  and  Comparative Research in Law and Political Economy Research Paper No. 18 available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=1002675
• B. Clarke “Articles 9 and 11 of the Takeover Directive (2004/25) and the Market for Corporate Control” [2006] Journal of Business Law 355-374
• B. Clarke “European Takeover Regulation and Directive 2004/25/EC” (2006) 24 The Company and Securities Law Journal 93-106
• B. Clarke “Regulating Poison Pill Devices” (2004) 4 Journal of Corporate Law Studies 51-75
• B. Clarke “European Takeover Regulation – The Latest Draft of the 13th Company Law Directive” (1999) 10  European Business Law Review  482-491
• B. Clarke “The Draft 13th Directive and Employees – an Irish Law Perspective” (1998) 9 European Business Law Review 311-317
• B. Clarke “Corporate Responsibility in Light of the Separation of Ownership and Control” (1997) 19 Dublin University Law Journal  50-76

UCD Law Working Papers in Law, Criminology & Socio-Legal StudiesWorking Paper Series

• B. Clarke “Directors’ Duties During an Offer Period – Lessons from the Cadbury PLC Takeover” UCD Law Working Papers in Law, Criminology & Socio-Legal Studies Research Paper No.44/2011
• B. Clarke “Where was the 'Market for Corporate Control' when we Needed it?” UCD Working Papers in Law, Criminology & Socio-Legal Studies Research Paper No. 23/2009
• T. Lynn and B. Clarke “The Irish Corporate Governance System” UCD Working Papers in Law, Criminology & Socio-Legal Studies Research Paper No. 38/2010
• B Clarke “Reinforcing the Market for Corporate Control” UCD Working Papers in Law, Criminology & Socio-Legal Studies Research Paper No. 39/2010

Selected Other Publications

• B. Clarke “Directors’ Duties During an Offer Period – Lessons from the Cadbury PLC Takeover” 3 Corporate Law: Corporate & Takeover Law E journal (2011)
• B. Clarke Book Review of  Common Legal Framework For Takeover Bids In Europe (2009) 34 European Law Review 660
• B. Clarke “Recent EU Corporate Governance and Audit Developments in the Light of Parmalat”  (2004)  Accountancy Plus 18
• B. Clarke “Advancing Corporate and Social Responsibility – the Softly, Softly Approach” (2002) 9 Commercial Law Practitioner 223
• B. Clarke “Directors and the Frustration of Hostile Takeovers of Irish Listed Companies: Legal and Regulatory Responses” (2001) PhD Dissertation, University of Manchester
• B. Clarke “Collateral Warranties & Entirety of Contract Clauses” (2001) 4 Irish Business Law 15
• B. Clarke “The Enforceability of Agreements to Negotiate and Lock-out Agreements” (2000) 5 Bar Review 323
• B. Clarke  “Evidence of the Cracks in the Chinese Walls” (1999) 17 Irish Law Times 166
• B. Clarke “Exempting or Limiting Liability in Sale Agreements” (1999) 6 Commercial Law Practitioner 267
• B. Clarke “Investor Compensation in Ireland” (1999) 6 European Financial Services Law 1
• B. Clarke “The Investor Compensation Act, 1998” (1998) 5 Commercial Law Practitioner 164
• B. Clarke “The Hampel Committee Report on Corporate Governance and the New Super Code” (1998) 4 Commercial Law Practitioner  9

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