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Joseph Spooner
BCL (Law with French Law), University College Dublin (2007), BCL, University of Oxford (2008)
Ph.D Candidate, Teaching Fellow
Research Topic: European Personal Insolvency Laws in the Modern Consumer Credit Society |
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Research Supervisors
Profile
Joseph joined the faculty in September 2010, and is conducting research under the supervision of Prof. Ian Fletcher. Joseph’s research examines the extent to which personal insolvency law in England and Wales and a number of other European jurisdictions have developed to respond to the new conditions of household indebtedness in the context of the modern consumer credit society.
Joseph studied law at undergraduate level at University College Dublin, spending a year of his degree at Universíté Paris II (Panthéon-Assass), where he obtained a diploma in French law. Joseph then undertook graduate studies at Balliol College, University of Oxford, where he graduated from the BCL degree.
Before joining the Faculty Joseph held the position of Principal Legal Researcher on the law Reform Commission of Ireland‘s Consultation Paper (September 2009), Interim Report (May 2010) and final Report (December 2010) on Personal Debt Management and Debt Enforcement. These documents examined a wide range of legal issues relating to personal indebtedness, while making comprehensive proposals for reform in particular in the areas of personal insolvency law and the enforcement of judgment debts; and were influential in shaping Ireland's Personal Insolvency Act 2012. Joseph is a member of a number of international associations specialising in the area of household debt and personal insolvency law, such as the Law and Society Association International Research Collaborative on Household Credit, Debt and Insolvency; and the Working Group of the World Bank Task Force on Insolvency and Creditor/Debtor Regimes.
Joseph also works as a Teaching Fellow in the Faculty of Laws, leading tutorials in the Conflict of Laws to students on the LLB programme.
Joseph studied law at undergraduate level at University College Dublin, spending a year of his degree at Universíté Paris II (Panthéon-Assass), where he obtained a diploma in French law. Joseph then undertook graduate studies at Balliol College, University of Oxford, where he graduated from the BCL degree.
Before joining the Faculty Joseph held the position of Principal Legal Researcher on the law Reform Commission of Ireland‘s Consultation Paper (September 2009), Interim Report (May 2010) and final Report (December 2010) on Personal Debt Management and Debt Enforcement. These documents examined a wide range of legal issues relating to personal indebtedness, while making comprehensive proposals for reform in particular in the areas of personal insolvency law and the enforcement of judgment debts; and were influential in shaping Ireland's Personal Insolvency Act 2012. Joseph is a member of a number of international associations specialising in the area of household debt and personal insolvency law, such as the Law and Society Association International Research Collaborative on Household Credit, Debt and Insolvency; and the Working Group of the World Bank Task Force on Insolvency and Creditor/Debtor Regimes.
Joseph also works as a Teaching Fellow in the Faculty of Laws, leading tutorials in the Conflict of Laws to students on the LLB programme.
Areas of Expertise
Corporate, Finance & Insolvency, International Commercial Law
Research Projects
No information provided
Research Interests
Bankruptcy Law, Consumer Credit Regulation and Consumer Law, Law and Economics, Over-indebtedness Studies, Private International Law, Socio-Legal Studies
UCL Associations/Academic & Professional Memberships
- LSA International Research Collaborative on Household Credit and Debt
- ECPR Standing Group on Regulatory Governance
- Socio-Legal Studies Association
- Working Group, World Bank Task Force on Insolvency and Creditor/Debtor Regimes
Professional Experience
- 2008 - 2010: Legal Researcher, Law Reform Commission of Ireland
- 2009 - 2010: Tutor (Part-Time), UCD School of Law
- 2010 : Teaching Fellow, UCL Faculty of Laws
Public Engagements & Media Coverage
UCL Bite-Sized Lunchtime Lectures
Publications
Joseph's publications include:
Conference Papers
- “What Difference Does It Make? Political Economy as an Alternative to Social and Cultural Explanations of Differences in National Insolvency Laws”, Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Honolulu, 5-8 June 2012
- "The Challenge to Traditional Personal Insolvency Law of the Modern Consumer Credit Society: Bankruptcy and Credit Morality", ECPR Standing Group on Regulation and Governance Fourth Biennial Meeting, Exeter, 27-29 June 2012
- "Bringing Harmonisation Home: EU Regulatory Regimes for unsecured Consumer Credit and Mortgage Credit" (with Michiel de Muynck), Society of Legal Scholars Annual Conference 2012, University of Bristol, 11 September 2012 (2012)
- "Little Dorrit or the Artful Dodger? Reconstructing the Consumer Debtor in Ireland’s 'Dickensian' Personal Debt Laws”, Irish Society of Comparative Law Annual Conference, University College Dublin, 29-30 April 2011
- "A Comparative Examination of the Contrasting Characterisations of Debtors underpinning National Personal Insolvency Laws", paper presented at the Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, 2-5 June 2011.
- “When Life Hands you a Lemon... Shifting Paradigms in Consumer Credit Regulation and the Accelerated Rise of the Principle of Responsible Lending after the Financial Crisis”, Paper presented at Regulation in the Age of Crisis, Third Biennial Conference o
- “Long overdue: The Reform of Irish Law as a Case Study of Divergences and Convergences in National Personal Insolvency Laws in the Context of European ‘Bankruptcy Tourism’”, Paper presented at International Insolvency Law Conference, Nottingham Law School (2010)
- “Comparative Personal Insolvency Law and ‘Bankruptcy Tourism’ within the European Judicial Area”, Irish Society of Comparative Law Conference 2010, Queen’s
- “The Legal Options Available to Irish Defaulters”, Debt Settlements: Financial Inclusion or Exclusion? European Commission Mutual Learning on Financial Inclusion Project Workshop No. 10, Oslo, Norway, 28 September 2009. (2009)
- “An Ounce of Prevention, A Pound of Cure: Responsible Lending and a Preventative Legal Approach to Over-Indebtedness”, International Graduate Legal Research Conference 2009, King’s College London, 2-3 July 2009.
Journals
- “Fresh Start or Stalemate? European Consumer Insolvency Law Reform and the Politics of Household Debt” [2013] 21(3) European Review of Private Law (forthcoming).
- "Sympathy for the Debtor? The Modernisation of Irish Personal Insolvency Law" [2012] 25(7) Insolvency Intelligence 97
- "Long Overdue: What the Belated Reform of Irish Personal Insolvency Law tells us about Comparative Consumer Bankruptcy" [2012] 86(2) American Bankruptcy Law Journal 243-304 (2012)
Edited Volumes
- “Enforcement of Court Orders (Amendment) Act 2009” in Clark (ed.) Irish Current Law Statutes Annotated 2009 (Thomson Round Hall, 2010).
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