Richard Nolan

Profile

Biography

Professor Richard Nolan
MA (Cantab), Barrister

Professor

I joined York Law School in September 2012.

Previously I was Reader in Corporate & Trust Law at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of St John’s College, where I taught for 19 years.  I have given courses and papers as a visiting academic elsewhere in England, and abroad in Australia, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Poland, Singapore and the US.  I have advised on law reform in several projects by the Department of Trade and Industry and the Law Commission for England and Wales. 

I am also a barrister and Door Tenant (a part-time practitioner) at Erskine Chambers, Lincoln’s Inn, which is widely regarded as the leading corporate law set of chambers in the United Kingdom.  Before I became an academic, I qualified and practised as a solicitor with Macfarlanes, a leading firm in the City of London. 

Research

Overview

• Trust Law
• Corporate Law 
• The development of transactional law

Projects

• The relationship between contract and knowing receipt
• The use of trusts in a commercial context 
• Philosophy of the Chancery Jurisdiction
• The control of power in private law

Publications

Selected publications

• “Regal (Hastings) Ltd v Gulliver (1942)” pp. 499-528, chapter 17 in Landmark Cases in Equity (2012, eds C. Mitchell & P. Mitchell)
• “Good faith:  What does it Mean for Fiduciaries and What does it Tell us about Them?” (with M.D.J. Conaglen) pp. 319–342 in Exploring Private Law (2010, eds. M. Harding & L. Bant) 
• Snell’s Equity (2010, ed J. McGhee QC), chapters 10, 11, 27, 28, 29 and 40 
• “The Continuing Evolution of Shareholder Governance” [2006] Cambridge Law Journal 92–126 
• “Equitable Property” (2006) 122 Law Quarterly Review 240–273
• “The Legal Control of Directors’ Conflicts of Interest in the United Kingdom:  Non-Executive Directors Following the Higgs Report” (2005) 6 Theoretical Inquiries in Law 363–412 (republished as Chapter 11 in After Enron, ed. J. McCahery)
• “Property in a Fund” (2004) 120 Law Quarterly Review 108–136
• “Indirect Investors:  A Greater Say in the Company?” [2003] Journal of Corporate Law Studies 73–101 (with appendices at pp. 102–121)

External activities

Memberships

• Director of Juris Angliae Scientia Ltd, a charity which facilitates the teaching of English and EU Law in Central and Eastern Europe 
• Visiting appointments held at the National University of Singapore, the University of Auckland, the University of Sydney and the University of Melbourne

Editorial duties

• Founding and continuing member of the Editorial Board, Journal of Corporate Law Studies
• Contributing Editor, Buckley on the Companies Acts
• Contributing Editor, Snell’s Equity