Iain MacNeil joined the School of Law at the University of Glasgow in 2003 and was appointed to the Alexander Stone Chair of Commercial Law in 2005. His early career was in the investment-banking sector in the City of London. He founded the LLM in Corporate & Financial Law in 2009 and served as Deputy and then Head of the School of Law from 2013 to 2019. As Head of School, he led the introduction of a Common Law LLB in 2018 and a major expansion in Law School staffing.
Iain is the Head of the Corporate & Financial Law Research Group at Glasgow and has published widely in collaboration with colleagues. Recent contributions include:

MacNeil, I. and Esser, I.-M. (2022) The emergence of ‘comply or explain’ as a global model for corporate governance codes. European Business Law Review, (Accepted for Publication) Click Here to View.

MacNeil, I. and Esser, I.-M. (2020) The Pandemic Response in the UK in the Context of Corporate and Financial Law – within and without Law. Click Here to View

Wu, Betty H.T. , MacNeil, Iain and Chalaczkiewicz- Ladna, Katarzyna, “ 'Say on Pay' Regulations and Director Remuneration: Evidence from the UK in the Past 15 Years”, 20(2) Journal of Corporate Law Studies 541-577 (2020)

Iris Chiu and Iain MacNeil, Research Handbook on Shadow Banking (Edward Elgar, 2018).

External roles:

E-mail : iain.macneil@glasgow.ac.uk

Area of Interest:

Iain has supervised many students to completion of their PhD and will consider PhD proposals in these areas of interest.