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- Qualifications:PhD, Solicitor, SFHEA, PGCertTLHE, PGDipLaw, PGDipLegal Practice, B.A.(Hons)
- Position:Senior Lecturer
- Department:Faculty of Business and Law (FBL)
- Telephone:+4411732 81326
- Email:Diana.Johnson@uwe.ac.uk
About me
I am a qualified Solicitor and a Senior Lecturer on the LLB. I am the module leader for the Commercial Law module and the Financial Crime module on the LLB.
My research interests lie in financial crime and competition law. I am interested in corporate criminal liability, Deferred Prosecution Agreements and criminal cartels. I have written several publications and presented conference papers on these topics. I recently completed a PhD which examined how competition law can be used to enforce the financial crime of benchmark interest rate manipulation.
I am currently working as a Co-Investigator on an externally funded project for Innovate UK (£490,000 – Transform Suspicious Activity Reports: UK's First Technology Line of Defence) and am involved with teams bidding for further research funding.
I am a member of the Research in Public International Law and the Global Crime, Justice and Security Research Groups at UWE. I am also a member of the Law Society of England and Wales, the White Collar Law Group and the Anti-Money Laundering, Cybersecurity and Financial Crime Compliance Network.
I have written and submitted evidence to policy makers and influential organisations including the Law Commission, the Financial Conduct Authority and HM Treasury.
Before working at UWE, I worked as a solicitor in the Corporate Department of the International law firm Osborne Clarke for four years, during which time I specialised in Mergers and Acquisitions, Private Equity and Corporate Restructurings. Prior to this, I worked in Brussels at both the European Commission (Directorate General for Competition) and the Brussels office of Taylor Wessing (International law firm).
Area of expertise
- Competition law
- Cartels
- Whistleblowing
- Financial crime
- Corporate Criminal Liability
- Deferred Prosecution Agreements
- Money Laundering
- Commercial law
- European Law
- US Law
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