Professor Rosa Maria Lastra, LLB, MA (Valladolid), LLM (Harvard), PhD (Madrid)

Lastra

Professor in International Financial and Monetary Law

Location: Lincoln's Inn Fields
email: r.lastra@qmul.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0)20 7882 8070
Fax: +44 (0)20 7882 8101

Rosa Lastra is a Professor in International Financial and Monetary Law at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies (CCLS), Queen Mary, University of London. Prior to joining CCLS in 1996, she was Assistant Professor and Director of the International Finance and Business Program at Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs in New York.

Rosa Lastra is a member of MOCOMILA, a founding member of the European Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee, an associate of the Financial Markets Group of the London School of Economics and Political Science and an affiliated scholar of the Centre for the Study of Central Banks at New York University School of Law. From 2008 to 2010 she was Visiting Professor of the University of Stockholm.

She has served as a consultant to the International Monetary Fund, the European Central Bank, the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

From July 2009 to June 2010 Rosa Lastra advised the International Monetary Fund on legal and policy issues associated with cross-border bank insolvency.

In November 2008 she was appointed Specialist Adviser to the European Union Committee (Sub-Committee A) of the House of Lords regarding its Inquiry into EU Financial Regulation and Responses to the Financial Crisis. 

She has published extensively in the field of monetary and financial law and is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of International Economic Law, general editor of the Journal of Banking Regulation, and a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Financial Economics. She is also General Editor of the series 'Research Handbooks in Financial Law', published by Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd. Her two authored books 'Legal Foundations of International Monetary Stability' (2006) and 'Central Banking and Banking Regulation' (1996) are widely considered authoritative references in monetary law.

Publications:

Publications 

Authored Books 

  • Legal Foundations of International Monetary Stability, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006, 600, ISBN: 0199269343
  • Central Banking and Banking Regulation, Financial Markets Group, London School of Economics, London, September 1996, 329 + viii pages, ISBN: 0753007258.

Edited Books

Refereed Articles

Book Chapters

  • Lastra and Rodrigo Olivares Caminal, 'From Consolidated Supervision to Consolidated Resolution', book chapter [Chapter 17] in Managing Risk in the Financial System, John Raymond LaBrosse, Rodrigo Olivares-Caminal and Dalvinder Singh (eds), 2011, pp. 308-332.
  • Lastra, 'The Role of the IMF as a Global Financial Authority', book chapter in European Yearbook of International Economic Law (EYIEL), edited by Christoph Herrman and Jörg Philipp Terhechte, Springer, Vol 2 (2011), pp. 121-136.
  • Lastra and Rodrigo Olivares-Caminal, 'Cross-Border Insolvency: The Case of Financial Conglomerates' chapter 17 in Financial Crisis Management and Bank Resolution edited by Raymond LaBrosse, Rodrigo Olivares-Caminal and Dalvinder Singh, Informa, London, 2009, pp.269-289.
  • Lastra, 'Northern Rock and Banking Law Reform in the UK', in The Failure of Northern Rock: a Multi-Dimensional Study, edited by Franco Bruni and David Llewellyn, SUERF Studies 2009/1, SUERF, Vienna, pp. 131-154.
  • Lastra, Rosa and Fabian Amtenbrink, 'Securing Democratic Accountability of Financial Regulatory Agencies - A theoretical framework', book chapter in Mitigating Risk in the Context of Safety and Security. How Relevant is a Rational Approach? Edited by RV de Mulder (rotterdam: Erasmus School of Law and Research School for Safety and Security (OMV) 2008, pp 115-132, ISBN 987-90-5677-0686-6
  • Lastra, 'Cross Border Resolution of Banking Crises', Douglas D Evanoff, John Raymond LaBrosse and George G Kaufman (eds.), Book chapter in International Financial Instability: Global Banking and National Regulation, Vol. 2, Singapore, World Scientific Publishing Company Pte Ltd, 2007, pp. 311-330
  • Regulating European Securities Markets: Beyond the Lamfalussy Report, in M. Andenas and Y. Avreginos (Editors), Financial Markets in Europe: Towards a Single Regulator?, London: Kluwer Law International, 2003, 211-222, ISBN: 9041121595
  • Comparative Aspects of Depositor Protection Schemes: Comparative (Co-author with D. Arner) in D. Arner and J. Lin (Editors), Financial Regulation: A Guide to Structural Reform, Hong Kong: Thomson Sweet & Maxwell Asia, 2003, 463-478, ISBN: 9626611979
  • Cross-Border Trade in Banking Services, in G. Alpa and F. Capriglione (Editors), Diritto Bancario Comunitario: Le Leggi Commentate, Turin: UTET, 2002, 433-455, ISBN: 8802059209
  • Cross-Border Trade in Financial Services, in I. Fletcher, M. Cremona and L. Mistelis (Editors), Foundations and Perspectives of International Trade Law, London: Sweet & Maxwell, 2001, 428-436, ISBN: 0421741007
  • Public Accountability in the Financial Sector (Co-author with H. Shams), in E. Ferran and C. Goodhart (Editors), Regulating Financial Services and Markets in the 21st Century, Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2001, 165-188, ISBN: 1841132799
  • Central Bank Independence in Ordinary and Extraordinary Times (Co-author with G. Miller), in Jan Kleineman (Editor), Central Bank Independence: The Economic Foundations, the Constitutional Implications and Democratic Accountability, Stockholm: Norstedts Juridik, 2001, 31-50, ISBN: 9139006867
  • The Bretton Woods Institutions in the XXIst Century, in R. Lastra (Editor), The Reform of the International Financial Architecture, London: Kluwer Law International, 2001, 67-90, ISBN: 9041198024

Other Selected Publications

Research interests:

Financial law and regulation, central banking, international banking, international monetary law, law reform in emerging economies, law and economics, EU financial law, bank resolution and insolvency and financial crisis management.