Rate My Professor Javier Solana

Javier Solana is Professor of Law and Finance in the School of Law at the University of Glasgow. He holds a B.A. in Business Administration, LLB, and MPhil in Law from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, an LLM from Harvard Law School, and a DPhil from the University of Oxford. His career includes visiting appointments as Scholar at Columbia Law School and the Stockholm Resilience Centre, and he will serve as Visiting Professor at the Grantham Research Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science, from March 2025. Solana co-directs the Corporate and Financial Law Research Group and leads the Finance and Social Justice Project, an experiential LLM course involving collaboration with civil society organizations. He supervises PhD students on subjects such as the ECB's democratic accountability, sustainable finance in private equity, nature-related financial risks in macroprudential frameworks, security over crypto-assets, inequalities in ECB mandates, transition plans for climate risk, and central banks' responses to systemic risks from climate change.

Solana's research explores the intersection of law, finance, and sustainability, focusing on financial regulation, sustainable financial markets, and law's role in economic transitions. Notable publications include 'The legal nature of market neutrality in the euro area’s monetary policy' (European Law Open, 2024); co-edited 'Markets, Constitutions and Inequality' with chapters on market efficiency as a directive principle of EU monetary policy (Routledge, 2022); 'Climate litigation in financial markets: a typology' (Transnational Environmental Law, 2020); 'Climate change litigation as financial risk' (Green Finance, 2020); 'The power of the Eurosystem to promote environmental protection' (European Business Law Review, 2019); co-authored 'The ECB powers as a catalyst for change in EU law' Parts 1 and 2 (Columbia Journal of European Law, 2016-2017); and 'Protecting mobile money customer funds in civil law jurisdictions' (International and Comparative Law Quarterly, 2016). His contributions have garnered significant recognition, including a 2024 European Research Council Starting Grant of €1.49 million for 'The legal foundations for a civic financial system' (2025-2030), a 2025 Economic & Social Research Council Impact Acceleration Account award of £10,000, a 2021 European Central Bank Legal Research Scholarship of €8,000, 2018 Scottish Funding Council grant of £24,425, 2016 and 2015 ECB scholarships of €10,000 each, and a 2018 ESRC Impact Acceleration Account of £8,670. Solana teaches financial law and regulation courses in the Law School and Business School, advancing discourse on sustainable finance.