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Philip Lawton

Lecturer

Degree: LLB Barrister

Associated research centres and groups: Centre for Law and Society, Corporate, Commercial and Consumer Law

Current Teaching

Current teaching includes company law, corporate governance and equity and trusts at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Courses taught in recent years include:LW206 Company Law, LW214 Law of Trusts, LLM120 Corporate Governance, LW202 Introduction to Property Law, LW303 Law and Religion.

Research Interests

Career Details

Graduated from Leicester University and was called to the UK and HK SAR Bar. He spent some time in legal editorial work before moving into academia. In addition to a stint as a foriegn expert in Beijing based at the Beijing Institute of Business in 1987-88, he has taught at the Universities of Central Lancashire 1980-89, City University of Hong Kong 1989-99 and Leeds Metropolitan 1999-2001, before joining Lancaster University in September 2001.

Research Interests

My areas of interest are Corporate Law, Corporate Governance and Equity and Trusts.I am particuarly interested in aspects of culture and corporations, comparative and transplantation issues in corporate law and governance. The legal dimensions of modelling the life cycles of family firms and the governance aspects of small to medium sized enterprises.

Publications

Books

Lawton P and Tyler E L G, Division of Duties and Responsibilities Between the Company Secretary and Directors in Hong Kong, Empirical reasearch report covering listed companies in Hong Kong for the Hong Kong Institute of Company Secretaries. Published in Hong Kong, HKSA, 2001.

Lawton P, Meeting in Hong Kong: Their Law and Practice, Longmans Asia, 1993.

Lawton P and Rigby E R, Meetings: Their Law and Practice, Pitman, London1992

Chapters in Books

These include:

Lawton P, 'Governance issues in UK small to medium sized enterprises' in Likai (ed) Governance and Management Strategies in the EU and China, Part 5, pp 165 -192, Intellectual Property Press, CNIPR, Beijing 2006.

Lawton P, 'Directors' Duties in the SME Context', in Likai (ed) Governance and Management Strategies in the EU and China, Part 5, p193-265, Intellectual Property Press, CNIPR, Beijing 2006.

Lawton P (with Cheng Wei-qi), 'SOE Reform from a Government Perspective and its Relationship with the Privately Owned, Publicly Listed Corporation in China' in McBean A and Brown D (Eds) Challenge and Change in China's Development: An Enterprise Perspective, Routledge, London, 2005.

Lawton P, 'Directors' Duties in Hong Kong', Chapter 11 in Tyler E L G (ed) Company Secretarial Manual, THC Press, Hong Kong, 1998.

Lawton P, 'Expanding Shareholder Control in Hong Kong' in Wang and Wei (eds), Legal Developments in China: Market Economy and Law (Sweet and Maxwell, China Law Series, Hong Kong, 1996).

Lawton P, 'Companies Law' in Roebuck D (ed) Law Relating to Banking in Hong Kong, Hong Kong University Press 1993, 137-183.

Journal Articles

Salim M R and Lawton P, 'Law in a Post -colonial State: The Shareholder Oppression Remedy in Malaysia', (2008) Global Jurist Vol 8; Iss 1 (frontiers), Article 3. Available at http://www.bepress.com/gi/vol8/iss1/art3. This article was awarded the Global Jurist's 2007 gold medal for the best submission that shed critical light on current developments in global capitalism.

Lawton P, 'Modelling the the Chinese Family Firm and Minority Shareholder Protection: The Hong Kong Experience 1980-1995', (2007) 49(5) Managerial Law 249-271.

Lawton P, 'Corporate Governance and the Company Secretary: A Hong Kong Contextual and Empirical Appraisal' (2002) 5(2) Corporate Governance International 4-36.

Lawton P, 'Corporate Governance: What's in a Minute?' [2000] 4 Journal of Chinese and Comparative Law 157-176

Lawton P, 'Cadbury Bites the dust? Re Astec (BSR) plc: Some Thoughts on Corporate Governance and Minority Shareholder Protection (1998) 1(2) Corporate Governance International 14-24.

Lawton P, 'Berle and Means, Corporate Governance and the Chinese Family Firm' [1996] 6 Australian Journal of Corporate Law 348-379.

Lawton P, 'Directors' Remuneration, Benefits and Extractions, an Analysis of their Uses, Abuses and Controls in the Corporate Governance Context of Hong Kong' , Australian Journal of Corporate Law, 1995, 430-458.

Lawton P, 'Corporate Governance and Informal Decision Making' Corporate Governance Quarterly, Part 1, 1995 1(1) 17-24; Part 2, 1995, 1(2), 29-41.

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Potential Doctoral Proposals

I have experience of supervising several successful Phd candidates and I welcome for consideration MPhil/Phd proposals on corporate law, corporate governance and also trusts law including legal transplantation and law in a post colonial context in these areas. I particuarly enjoy comparative studies but in addition to theoretical emphasis I am also prepared to consider a wide range of socio-legal and/or empirical approaches.

Managerial and Administrative Experience

I haveconsiderable experience of course directorships including full and part time LLBs and Business Studies degrees.Experince as a member of universities' quality assurance committees, an academic auditor, and a chairman and vice-chairman of staff and student grievance and disciplinary committees.Considerable experience in course development and validation in relation to degrees at undergraduate and postgraduate level in the areas of law, business studies, management, accounting and finance and international degrees across these diciplines. As well as considerable experience as an examiner for professional bodies has sat on various sub committees of law reform bodies and the Hong Kong Stock-Exchange Working Party on Corporate Governance in the mid 1990s.

As part of my continuing interest in the development of corporate governance in ChinaI have been a member of the management committee for the Management School's "Lancaster Centre for Management in China" for the last 9 years.My most recent role is that of Careers Advisor for the Lancaster Law School 2003-2010.

Current Research Projects

I am currently involved in a number of research projects in my areas of general interest.These include:

(a) Comparative minority shareholder protection in a corporate governance context and linked to this,

(b) The governance of small to medium sized enterprises and modeling the family firm in the context of legal vehicles for small to medium sized enterprises

(c) A comparative overview of the role of employees in corporate decision making and governance in the UK, China and several other jursidictions.

(d) Editing a book proposal examining the interrelationship of Religion, Business and the Law.

Associated Keywords: Corporate governance, Corporate law, Corporations, Equity, Law, Law in a post colonial context, Legal transplantation, Minority shareholder protection

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