Rate My Professor Clara Martins-Pereira

Clara Martins-Pereira is an Associate Professor of Financial Law and Director for International Development at Durham Law School within the Law faculty at Durham University. She also holds an Invited Professorship at Católica Lisbon School of Law. Her extensive academic background includes a DPhil in Law, an MPhil, and a Magister Juris from the University of Oxford, complemented by an MSc in Law and Business and an LLB in Law from Católica Lisbon School of Law. This strong foundation in both common law and civil law traditions informs her interdisciplinary approach to legal scholarship.

Dr Martins-Pereira's research is centred at the intersection of financial law and regulation, technological innovation, and sustainable development. She investigates how legal institutions can mitigate risks and promote equity in financial systems disrupted by advancements such as FinTech, artificial intelligence, and algorithmic trading. Her principal research interests encompass Financial Regulation, Financial Law, Law and Financial Technology (FinTech), Law and Sustainable Finance, Corporate Finance Law, Company Law, Tort Law, and Contract Law. Key publications include the co-edited volume Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence and the Law (Springer, 2024), Unregulated Algorithmic Trading: Testing the Boundaries of the European Union Algorithmic Trading Regime (Journal of Financial Regulation, 2020), The European Union’s Approach to Artificial Intelligence and the Challenge of Financial Systemic Risk (in Multidisciplinary Perspectives..., 2023), Reviewing the Literature on Behavioural Economics (Capital Markets Law Journal, 2016), A Regulação do Crowdfunding de Capital no Ordenamento Jurídico Português (UCEditora, 2019), and The Uncertain Path Towards Open Finance: Mutual Lessons from the United Kingdom and European Union Regulatory Approaches (in A Research Agenda for Financial Law and Regulation, 2023). Her scholarship has garnered over 85 citations on Google Scholar. Dr Martins-Pereira has submitted written evidence to the UK Parliament's Artificial Intelligence inquiry and organises academic workshops, such as the 'Future of Business Law' series. She delivers public lectures on AI's implications for financial stability and contributes to international academic discourse.