Professor Jo Braithwaite

Jo is a professor of international commercial finance law, having joined LSE in September 2008. Her current and ongoing research interests relate to the use of private law in the international markets, with a particular focus on the derivatives markets, the use of standard form contracts and the resilience of financial market infrastructure. Recent projects have included a book published by Cambridge University Press on the role of the courts in the global financial markets and several studies into default management and recovery/resolution in the context of CCPs (a type of financial market infrastructure).