Professor Lorraine Talbot

• BA (hons)
• LLM, PhD (Kent Law School)

Professor Talbot Joined Birmingham Law School in January 2018. She previously held a Chair at the University of York and was an Associate Professor at the University of Warwick.  

• Company Law (UG/LLM)
• International Corporate Governance (LLM)

I am available to supervise in the following areas. Business History, corporate law theory, critical approaches to shareholder rights and shareholder centred governance, the socio-economic and political impact of corporate activities, growth, degrowth and corporate sustainability, the visual arts and corporations, corporations and labour, corporations and social progress, business human rights, feminism, gender and corporations and the political economy of companies.

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Professor Talbot approaches company law and corporate governance from a law in context position, with particular emphasis the corporation as a social, economic, cultural, moral and aesthetic phenomenon, and the dehumanising consequences of an identity which is distinct from the living actors. Her current research is concerned with two distinct areas; one, the company’s legal architecture and its relationship with growth and sustainability in a capitalist economy; (forthcoming article, ‘The Degrowth Tendency of the Modern Corporation’, forthcoming chapter, ‘Growth, Sustainability and Human Rights’ (Edward Elgar 2024)); and, two, how the visual arts shape the company’s identity and promote an understanding of the historical development of the company and company law, (recently published article, ‘Revealing the Company of Merchants of England Trading to the East Indies through law and the Painted Moment’, Business History (2024), forthcoming chapter, ‘Capitalism as Personal: Brunner, Mond & Co Ltd (1881-1926)’ in The Origins of Company Law (Hart 2024)). 

Professor Talbot is also concerned with teaching company law from a law in context perspective. Her latest teaching text is the 2^nd edition of Great Debates in Company Law (forthcoming Hart, April 2024) co-authored with Dr Andreas Kokkinis.