Rate My Professor Federico Lupo-Pasini

Federico Lupo-Pasini is Professor of Financial Law at Durham Law School, University of Durham. He obtained his PhD from the National University of Singapore. Before entering academia, he worked for several years in South East Asia advising governments on international trade and financial regulation. More recently, he has consulted with the Government of Northern Ireland on the trade implications of Brexit. Within the Law School, he previously directed the Institute of Corporate and Commercial Law. He teaches Financial Law on the LLB programme, Financial Regulation on the LLM programme, and occasionally contributes to Contract Law and Commercial Law on the LLB. Since 2021, he serves as co-convenor of the Banking and Financial Services Law section of the Society of Legal Scholars and as co-organizer of the Annual Conference on Financial Law and Regulation.

Professor Lupo-Pasini's research focuses primarily on international financial law, encompassing international financial regulation, international litigation, monetary law, and sovereign debt. His interests also include the contractual aspects of finance, conflicts of laws, and banking regulation. Previously, he examined the role of legal institutions in financial globalization and the rise of financial nationalism and protectionism, themes central to his book The Logic of Financial Nationalism (Cambridge University Press, 2017). He has addressed the disappearance of cash and risks of financial exclusion arising from digital payment technologies. More recent work covers transparency in sovereign debt transactions and the application of sustainable finance principles to sovereign finance. He maintains a sporadic interest in international economic law, particularly international trade. Key publications include 'The Credit Suisse collapse and international financial law' (Law and Financial Markets Review, 2023), 'Sustainable Finance and Sovereign Debt: The Illusion to Govern by Contract' (Journal of International Economic Law, 2022), 'Hidden sovereign finance' (Capital Markets Law Journal, 2021), 'Financial Inclusion and the “War for Cash”' (Law and Contemporary Problems, 2021), 'Financial Disputes in International Courts' (Journal of International Economic Law, 2018), and 'Financial Stability in International Law' (Melbourne Journal of International Law, 2017). Other notable works feature contributions to edited volumes on financial stability as a common concern of humankind (2021), banking integration in ASEAN (2019), and monetary policy in investment law (2014).