Professor Jennifer Payne

Jennifer Payne is Warden of Merton College, Oxford, a Professor of Corporate Finance Law and a Pro Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford. She writes widely in the fields of company law, corporate finance law, financial regulation and corporate insolvency. Her books include Corporate Finance Law: Principles and Policy (Hart Publishing, 4th edn 2025, with Louise Gullifer); Corporate  Restructuring Law in Flux (Hart Publishing, 2025)(with Kristin van Zwieten);  Schemes of Arrangement: Theory, Structure and Operation (CUP, 2014, 2nd ed 2021); Intermediation and Beyond (Hart Publishing, 2019 with Louise Gullifer); Principles of Financial Regulation (OUP, 2016) (with John Armour, Dan Awrey, Paul Davies, Luca Enriques, Jeff Gordon and Colin Mayer); and The Oxford Handbook of Financial Regulation (OUP, 2015, with Niamh Moloney and Eilis Ferran). She was Law Delegate of the Oxford University Press 2020-2025  and is Review Articles editor of the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies.  She is an Academic Master of the Bench of the Inner Temple. She has been a Visiting Professor at a number of leading institutions internationally, including Melbourne Law School, the National University of Singapore and the University of Auckland. She was elected to membership of the International Insolvency Institute in 2016. She was a member of the European Security and Markets Authority (ESMA)’s Securities and Markets Stakeholders Group 2016-18 and was a member of the Consultative Working Group of ESMA's Corporate Finance Standing Committee in 2015-17. She is currently a member of the Expert Advisory Panels to the Law Commission on Intermediated Securities and Digital Assets.