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Email

ascc2@cam.ac.uk

Affiliated Lecturer

Interests

Legal aspects of digital assets/cryptoassets, distributed ledger technology, smart contracts; DeFi (decentralized finance)

Corporate finance law, company law and legal theory of the company, law and economics, game theory, behavioural studies, legal risk management

CV / Biography

Education

  • PhD, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge (Supervisor: Prof. Simon Deakin. Advisor: Prof. Marc Moore)
  • Visiting doctoral researcher, Harvard Law School
  • Aspirant scholar, Flanders Research Council and KULeuven
  • LLM, Columbia Law School
  • Master in Law, KULeuven
  • Exchange student, NYU School of Law

Professional experience

  • Slaughter & May Lecturer in Company Law, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge (2019-21)
  • Associate (corporate and competition law) at law firms Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP and Skadden Arps Slate Meagher Flom LLP in Brussels. Admitted to the Bar in Brussels (no longer active).

Awards

  • Yorke Prize, Law Faculty, University of Cambridge 2020 (awarded for the PhD thesis "In pursuit of a better legal theory of the company - A data-driven, co-evolutionary and multiple equilibria model")
  • Winner, Cambridge-McKinsey Risk Prize 2018
  • Finalist, Global Peter Drucker Challenge 2016
  • Scholarships for PhD research at Cambridge:
    • Vice Chancellor Award, Cambridge Trust
    • Arts & Humanities Research Council grant
    • Cambridge Philosophical Society Grant
    • Cambridge Political Economy Society Trust grant
  • Scholarships and awards for LLM, Columbia
    • Harlan Fisk Stone Scholar award, Columbia University
    • Parker School of Achievement Certificate
    • Belgian American Educational Foundation fellow
    • Honorary Fulbright Fellow
    • Fernand Lazard Fellow
    • PEO IPS Scholarship

Publications