Professor Alan Dignam

Queen’s Counsel (Hon) and Professor of Corporate Law, Queen Mary University of London

Interests

Corporate and Company Law, Corporate Governance, the application of Constitutional Rights/Human Rights to corporations and the impact of Artificial Intelligence on Corporations

Background

Professor Alan Dignam graduated from Trinity College Dublin in 1990. He received his doctorate in 1995 from Dublin City University Business School. He joined Queen Mary, University of London in 1998 having been a lecturer in law at Dublin City University and Sussex University. His major research interests are company law, corporate governance, the application of Constitutional Rights/Human Rights to corporations and the impact of Artificial Intelligence on Corporations. On 17 December 2020 Her Majesty the Queen approved his appointment as one of only six Honorary Queen’s Counsel (QC Honoris Causa) granted that year.

He has written widely in domestic and international law journals on company and commercial law matters, and is the co-author with David Allen of Company Law and the Human Rights Act (Butterworths, 2000) and with Professor John Lowry (UCL) of Company Law (Oxford University Press, 2019). A co-authored book with Michael Galanis (Manchester University) entitled The Globalization of Corporate Governance, (Ashgate, 2009) was published in 2009 predicting the end of globalisation and the rise of nationalist agendas. In 2014, again with Michael Galanis, he edited a collection of essays on Post-crisis Trajectories of European Corporate Governance: Dealing with the Present and Building the Future (Wiley 2014).

Since 2014 he has been working on a large scale empirical project with Professor Peter Oh from the University of Pittsburgh examining corporate disregard (Veil lifting/piercing etc) in the UK over the course of the 19th, 20th and 21st Centuries. The first part of that project was published in the Spring 2019 edition of the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies. The second part exploring judicial rationales in disregard cases was published in Legal Studies in June 2020. Since 2016 he has been a member of Welcome Trust funded network exploring the impact of Artificial Intelligence on Corporations. The first of a number of papers on Artificial Intelligence and Corporations.

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