Pablo Iglesias-Rodríguez is Associate Professor in International Finance Law at the Sussex Law School, where he convenes the LLM in International Financial Law. He is a member of the Consultative Working Group of the CCP Policy Committee of the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA). He is also an Honorary Fellow of the Asian Institute of International Financial Law (HKU), and a member of the European Environmental Law Forum (EELF). In February 2023 he was appointed as member of the UKRI Talent Peer Review College.

He is a graduate of the University of Vigo (Licenciatura en Derecho and MPhil in Applied Financial Economics) and the EUI (MRes and a PhD in Law). He holds a PGCertHE from the University of Sussex and a CertHE in Divinity from the University of London. He is a member of the Madrid Bar Association and a certified Anti-Money Laundering specialist (ICA).

Before joining the University of Sussex he held various senior research positions at the Montesquieu Institute and Maastricht University (fellow and post-doctoral researcher), the VU Amsterdam (Senior Researcher) and the EUI (Jean Monnet Fellow at the Global Governance Programme, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies).

His academic experience includes visiting engagements at the Centre for Business Research of the University of Cambridge (Project on Law, Finance and Development), the School of Law of Columbia University (Visiting Scholar), the University of Padova (Visiting Lecturer), the Warsaw University of Technology (Visiting Lecturer), Vilnius University (Visiting Lecturer), the Hague University of Applied Sciences (Visiting Lecturer), Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Visiting Lecturer), University of Foggia (Visiting Professor) and the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law (Visiting Fellow). He also interned at the Spanish Chamber of Commerce in France (Leonardo da Vinci Grant) and the European Commission, DG Internal Market and Services. He has been a consultant and national expert in projects for EU agencies and the European Commission.

He has trained Members of the Nigerian National Assembly, the Nigerian Government, and the National Information Technology Development Agency of Nigeria on aspects relating to policy, law and rule-making.



Selected videos from presentations


Presentation at the CNMV Conference on Recovery and Resolution of Central Counterparties, Madrid, 21 June 2022.

https://youtu.be/7FHzZf_YnSc?t=5896


Selected publications



Books



P. Iglesias-Rodríguez, The Accountability of Financial Regulators. A European and International Perspective (Alphen aan den Rijn: Kluwer Law International, 2014)


Edited Books



P. Iglesias-Rodríguez (with Anna Triandafyllidou and Ruby Gropas) (Eds.) After the Financial Crisis: Shifting Legal, Economic and Political Paradigms (London: Palgrave, 2016)


P. Iglesias-Rodríguez (Ed.), Building responsive and Responsible Financial Regulators in the Aftermath of the Financial Crisis (Cambridge: Intersentia, 2015)


Contributions to Books

P. Iglesias-Rodríguez, ‘Sustainable commercial banking in European Union Law: a renewed mandate for commercial banks?’ in M. Bodellini, G. Gimigliano, and D. Singh (eds.), The Commercial Banking Business under Revision (London: Palgrave, 2024)

P. Iglesias-Rodríguez, ‘The African Union and Global Financial Standard-Setting’ in F. Amao, K. Magliveras and M. Olivier (eds.), The Emergent African Union Law: Conceptualization, Delimitation, and Application (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021), pp. 87-106


P. Iglesias-Rodríguez, ‘The Concept of Systemic Importance in European Banking Union Law’ in M.P. Chiti and V. Santoro (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of European Banking Union Law (London: Palgrave, 2019), pp. 183-211



P. Iglesias-Rodríguez, ‘Obligations of Directors in Takeovers’ in M. Siems and D. Cabrelli (Eds.) Comparative Company Law: A Case-Based Approach (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2018), pp. 109-163


P. Iglesias-Rodríguez, ‘Procesos armonizadores en el ámbito de la poscontratación en la UE. El proceso de la reforma y conexión de Iberclear a TARGET2-Securities (T2S)’ (The Harmonization of Post-Trading in the EU. The Process of Reform and Connection of Iberclear to TARGET2-Securities (T2S)) in A. Martínez, F.J. Garcimartín Alférez, and A. Recalde Castells (eds.) La Reforma del Sistema de Poscontratación en los Mercados de Valores (Madrid: Thomson Reuters- Aranzadi, 2017), pp. 73-111


P. Iglesias-Rodríguez, ‘Paradigm Shift in Financial-Sector Policymaking Models: From Industry-Based to Civil Society-Based EU Financial Services Governance?’ in P. Iglesias-Rodríguez, A.Triandafyllidou and R. Gropas (eds.), After the Financial Crisis: Shifting Legal, Economic and Political Paradigms (London: Palgrave, 2016), pp. 23-73


P. Iglesias-Rodríguez, ‘Has the Financial Crisis Led to a Paradigm Shift?’ (with A.Triandafyllidou and R. Gropas)in P. Iglesias-Rodríguez, A.Triandafyllidou and R. Gropas (eds.), After the Financial Crisis: Shifting Legal, Economic and Political Paradigms (London: Palgrave, 2016), pp. 1-20


P. Iglesias-Rodríguez, ‘From One-directional to Multi-directional Paradigm Shift’ (with A.Triandafyllidou and R. Gropas) in P. Iglesias-Rodríguez, A.Triandafyllidou and R. Gropas (eds.), After the Financial Crisis: Shifting Legal, Economic and Political Paradigms (London: Palgrave, 2016), pp. 335-345


P. Iglesias-Rodríguez, ‘El Derecho de Información del Socio y Otros Interesados’ (The right of information of shareholders and other interested parties) in L. Rojo, L.J. Cortés, A.B. Campuzano and A. Pérez-Troya (Eds.), Las Modificaciones Estructurales de las Sociedades Mercantiles (Madrid: Thomson Reuters- Aranzadi, 2015), pp. 265-308


P. Iglesias-Rodríguez, 'Responsive-and-responsible financial regulation in the aftermath of the global financial crisis' in P. Iglesias-Rodríguez (Ed.), Building responsive and Responsible Financial Regulators in the Aftermath of the Financial Crisis (Cambridge: Intersentia, 2015), pp. 1-28


P. Iglesias-Rodríguez, The political economy of global competition law and policy: an institutional approach’ in J. Bailleux and A. Vauchez (Eds.), Exploring the Transnational Circulation of Policy Paradigms: Law Firms, Legal Networks and the Production of Expertise in the Field of Competition Policies (Florence: European University Institute Press, 2014), pp. 41-52


P. Iglesias-Rodríguez, ‘La gobernanza del sector financiero en la Unión Europea frente a la crisis: el caso del Sistema Europeo de Supervisión Financiera’ (The governance of the financial sector in the European Union after the crisis: the case of the European System of Financial Supervision) in M. López-Vallejo, A.B. Mungaray, F. Quintana and R. Velázquez (Eds.), Gobernanza en un mundo interconectado (México D.F.: Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Asociación Mexicana de Estudios Internacionales, A.C., Universidad Popular Autónoma del Estado de Puebla, A.C, 2013), pp. 159-170


P. Iglesias-Rodríguez, ‘Obligations of Directors in Takeovers’ in M. Siems and D. Cabrelli (Eds.) Comparative Company Law: A Case-Based Approach (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2013), pp. 83-124


Articles in Journals

P. Iglesias-Rodríguez, ‘Gatekeeper Liability in Spain after Gowex’ (2024) 39(4) Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law 270-274

P. Iglesias-Rodríguez, ‘ClientEarth v Shell plc and the (Un)Suitability of UK Company Law and Litigation to Pursue Climate-Related Goals’, (2023) Journal of Environmental Law, https://academic.oup.com/jel/advance-article/doi/10.1093/jel/eqad029/7252867#415329599

P. Iglesias-Rodríguez, ‘The gambling business from the point of view of Catholic moral and social teachings’ (2023) Studies in Religion, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00084298221144384

P. Iglesias-Rodríguez, 'ESMA as a Residual Lawmaker: The Political Economy and Constitutionality of ESMA’s Product Intervention Measures on Complex Financial Products' (2021) 22 European Business Organization Law Review, 627-671

P. Iglesias-Rodríguez, 'What’s in a name? Implications of ESMA’s interpretation of the concepts of credit ratings and credit rating agencies' (2018) 33 Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law, 645-648


P. Iglesias-Rodríguez, ‘Supervisory Cooperation in the Single Market for Financial Services: United in Diversity?’ (2018) 41 Fordham International Law Journal, 589-668.


P. Iglesias-Rodríguez, 'The disclosure of corporate social responsibility in the EU after Directive 2014/95' (2016) 37 The Company Lawyer, 319-326


P. Iglesias-Rodríguez, 'The regulation of cross-border Clearing and Settlement in the European Union from a legitimacy perspective’ (2012) 13 European Business Organization Law Review, 441-474


P. Iglesias-Rodríguez, ‘Clearing and Settlement’s reform as a source of competition in Spanish equity markets’ (2012) 23 International Company and Commercial Law Review, 157-166


P. Iglesias-Rodríguez, ‘Project Merlin and Regulatory Threat over the UK’s Banks’ (2011) 32 Business Law Review, 172-176


P. Iglesias-Rodríguez, ‘The Swiss Federal Act on the Restitution of Illicit Assets: A critical analysis’ (2011) 26 Journal of International Banking Law and Regulation, 201-205


P. Iglesias-Rodríguez, ‘Towards a New European Financial Supervision Architecture’ (2009) 16 Columbia Journal of European Law Online, 1-6


P. Iglesias-Rodríguez, 'Shareholder's electronic voting in Spain' (2009) 6 European Company Law, 20-26