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Dionysia Katelouzou

Dr Dionysia Katelouzou

Reader in Corporate Law

Research interests

  • Law

Biography

Dr Dionysia Katelouzou is a Reader in Corporate Law, having joined The Dickson Poon School of Law in July 2013. She was previously a Lecturer in Law at the University of East Anglia.

Dr Katelouzou holds a PhD and an LLM (first class) from the University of Cambridge, and an LLB (summa cum laude) from the University of Athens. She is a member of the Bar of Athens and a Research Associate at the Centre of Business Research at the University of Cambridge, while in the past she had been a Visiting Researcher at the University of Pennsylvania and a Visiting Lecturer at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (London), among others.

She is leading the ECGI-supported Global Shareholder Stewardship project, consisting of more than 100 academic and non-academic members across 24 countries around the world and she has received research funding from the British Academy and the Economic and Social Research Council. She has authorship of approx 30 research outputs (including 1 edited handbook, 8 journal articles, 9 book chapters) with >190 citations and has been presented extensively at meetings and conferences around the world.

She was awarded the Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP prize for the best ECGI Law Working Paper in 2020 for her co-authored paper, “The Global Diffusion of Stewardship Codes”.

Research interests

Dr Katelouzou’s research interests primarily cover:

  • corporate law
  • corporate governance
  • sustainable finance and regulation
  • law and economics
  • law and finance
  • empirical legal research
  • transnational and EU law
  • socio-legal research

One strand of her research deals with investor stewardship, shareholder activism, and sustainability, especially from a socio-legal perspective. Her work is distinctive in its empirical orientation and combines socio-legal analysis with empirical methods, including econometric analysis, network analysis, in-depth interviews and natural language processing.

Her current research looks at the role of stewardship and sustainability reporting (including climate change) in producing norms or pressuring changes in investment practices on a domestic, EU, international and transnational scale.

PhD Student Supervision

Dr Katelouzou is keen to supervise PhD students in the fields of corporate governance and sustainable finance, especially in research that seeks to combine theory and practice in new ways.

Teaching

Undergraduate

  • Transnational Company Law
  • Company Law

Postgraduate

  • Transnational and Comparative Corporate Law and Corporate Governance I
  • Transnational and Comparative Corporate Law and Corporate Governance II
  • Corporate Actors: Powers and Responsibilities

    News

    Global Investor Stewardship relaunch reflects pivotal shift in focus from shareholders to investors

    The Global Shareholder Stewardship project was initiated by a group of leading researchers and practitioners in 2019 to define shareholder stewardship,...

    A group of people smiling into the camera. A man in glasses and a blue suit and a woman in a red dress are both holding a book.

    Dr Dionysia Katelouzou awarded British Academy mid-career Fellowship

    The Dickson Poon School of Law is delighted to announce Dr Dionysia Katelouzou, Reader in Corporate Law, has been awarded a prestigious British Academy...

    Dr Dionysia Katelouzou presenting at a recent conference

    New book and investor conference for Global Shareholder Stewardship project

    This month, the Global Shareholder Stewardship project, based at The Dickson Poon School of Law, will bring together global academic experts and institutional...

    A line of people walk over a pedestrian crossing engulfed in fog

    Law academic wins prize for paper on stewardship codes

    Dr Dionysia Katelouzou wins international award for her research on corporate governance and stewardship.

    A woman is being interviewed against a grey background

    Events

    19AprSomerset House World Questions

    KCL Business, Regulation and Society Research Seminar

    KCL Business, Regulation and Society Research Seminar (HOW TO REFORM THE U.S. ABYSMAL INSIDER TRADING FRAMEWORK, Prof Marc I. Steinberg)

    Please note: this event has passed.

    27MayDionysia's Covid stewardship workshop

    Conference: Investor Stewardship in an Uncertain World

    Discuss the challenges of the effective implementation of investor stewardship in times of uncertainty.

    Please note: this event has passed.

    11Maynew Copy of King's Business, Regulation and Society series Rethinking Securities Law

    King's Business, Regulation and Society series. Wireless Shareholders Meetings

    The King's Business, Regulation and Society research group aims to bring together scholars with interest and expertise in the development of all aspects of...

    Please note: this event has passed.

    01JunLondon

    Should companies with dual class shares be premium listed?

    Hosted by the Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College, London, the Law School, University of Edinburgh, and the Centre for Business Research, University of...

    Please note: this event has passed.

      News

      Global Investor Stewardship relaunch reflects pivotal shift in focus from shareholders to investors

      The Global Shareholder Stewardship project was initiated by a group of leading researchers and practitioners in 2019 to define shareholder stewardship,...

      A group of people smiling into the camera. A man in glasses and a blue suit and a woman in a red dress are both holding a book.

      Dr Dionysia Katelouzou awarded British Academy mid-career Fellowship

      The Dickson Poon School of Law is delighted to announce Dr Dionysia Katelouzou, Reader in Corporate Law, has been awarded a prestigious British Academy...

      Dr Dionysia Katelouzou presenting at a recent conference

      New book and investor conference for Global Shareholder Stewardship project

      This month, the Global Shareholder Stewardship project, based at The Dickson Poon School of Law, will bring together global academic experts and institutional...

      A line of people walk over a pedestrian crossing engulfed in fog

      Law academic wins prize for paper on stewardship codes

      Dr Dionysia Katelouzou wins international award for her research on corporate governance and stewardship.

      A woman is being interviewed against a grey background

      Events

      19AprSomerset House World Questions

      KCL Business, Regulation and Society Research Seminar

      KCL Business, Regulation and Society Research Seminar (HOW TO REFORM THE U.S. ABYSMAL INSIDER TRADING FRAMEWORK, Prof Marc I. Steinberg)

      Please note: this event has passed.

      27MayDionysia's Covid stewardship workshop

      Conference: Investor Stewardship in an Uncertain World

      Discuss the challenges of the effective implementation of investor stewardship in times of uncertainty.

      Please note: this event has passed.

      11Maynew Copy of King's Business, Regulation and Society series Rethinking Securities Law

      King's Business, Regulation and Society series. Wireless Shareholders Meetings

      The King's Business, Regulation and Society research group aims to bring together scholars with interest and expertise in the development of all aspects of...

      Please note: this event has passed.

      01JunLondon

      Should companies with dual class shares be premium listed?

      Hosted by the Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College, London, the Law School, University of Edinburgh, and the Centre for Business Research, University of...

      Please note: this event has passed.