Philip Rawlings

Honorary Professor of Law

Biography

Philip Rawlings is Emeritus Professor of Law at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies (CCLS), Queen Mary University of London. He graduated LLB from Hull University, where he also read for his PhD as a Ferens Scholar. In his early academic career, he held posts at Aberystwyth, Brunel and Warwick universities. In 2003 he was appointed Norton Rose Senior Lecturer in Commercial Law at UCL, and then promoted to a personal chair in the Law of International Finance. In 2011, he was appointed The Sir Roy Goode Professor of Commercial Law at CCLS (2011-19), where he was also Deputy Director (2013-18). He has held various visiting appointments, including at Paris-Panthéon-Assas University, and is Chief Examiner for several modules on the International LLM, PGDip and PGCert at the University of London. 

Philip has published more than 80 books and papers on banking, insurance, sales, the history of commercial law, criminology, criminal justice history, biography and social welfare law, and his work has been cited more than 30 times by law reform bodies and senior courts around the world.  His current research includes papers on immigration controls after the First World War, the use of compensation in the eighteenth century to encourage communal crime prevention and detection, The Highwayman's Case (1725), and the role of insurance in the modern welfare state.  

At UCL, alongside the development of these research projects for publication, Philip will participate in classes on the LLM degree, including Legal Aspects of International Finance (led by Professor Graham Penn), and he will work on further research, particularly in international finance.