Skip to main content

Staff profile

Overview

Professor Pierre Schammo

Professor of European and Financial Law

Affiliations
AffiliationTelephone
Professor of European and Financial Law in the Durham Law School+44 (0) 191 33 42818

Biography

Dr Pierre Schammo is Professor of European and Financial Law, and Director of Admissions at Durham Law School. He also serves as Deputy Director of the Durham European Law Institute. He previously taught at the University of Manchester and worked as a Research Fellow in European financial and corporate law at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law in London. He holds a D.Phil from the University of Oxford (Magdalen College), and law degrees from Leiden University (the Netherlands) and the University of Strasbourg (France).

Pierre is affiliated with the Jean Monnet Centre for EU Studies at Keio University (Tokyo), the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence on Sustainable Finance and Law at the University of Genoa (Italy), and the Institute for Data Science at Durham. He has been a Visiting Lecturer at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (University of London) and has held visiting positions at Keio University, the London School of Economics and Political Science (European Institute), and Oxford University (Institute of European and Comparative Law). He currently serves as an External Examiner at the University of Manchester and has previously held similar roles at University College London and the London School of Economics. He is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Law and Financial Markets Review and sits on the Editorial Board of The Company Lawyer.

Pierre’s research lies at the intersection of financial law, EU law, and law in context. He has published extensively on prospectus regulation and regulatory competition, as well as on the European System of Financial Supervision, the Banking Union, and the Capital Markets Union. His more recent work focuses on technological change and green finance. His research on abuse of law and the European System of Financial Supervision has been cited by the Court of Justice of the European Union. He also acted as UK co-rapporteur on the Banking Union for the 27th Congress of the Federation of European Lawyers (FIDE) and as an expert on European banking supervision for the 13th Luxembourg Expert Forum at the Court of Justice of the European Union.

Teaching areas

  • Financial Regulation
  • Internal Market Law

Research interests

  • Capital Markets Regulation
  • Financial Markets and Banking Supervision
  • Internal Market Law
  • Regulation and law in context research (law and political science, and law and economics)

Publications

Authored book

Book review

Chapter in book

  • EU Prospectus Regulation
    Schammo, P. (2025). EU Prospectus Regulation. In P. Giudici & J. A. McCahery (Eds.), Research Handbook on EU Securities Regulation (pp. 87-109). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800376045.00013
  • Integrating Sustainable Finance into the Prospectus Regulation
    Chiu, I., & Schammo, P. (2025). Integrating Sustainable Finance into the Prospectus Regulation. In K. Alexander, M. Gargantini, & M. Siri (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of EU Sustainable Finance: Regulation, Supervision and Governance. Cambridge University Press.
  • Global Central Counterparties
    Schammo, P. (2023). Global Central Counterparties. In I. Chiu & I. MacNeil (Eds.), Research Handbook on Global Capital Markets Law (pp. 157-171). Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800379305.00018
  • Who knows what tomorrow brings? Of uncertainty in times of a pandemic
    Schammo, P. (2020). Who knows what tomorrow brings? Of uncertainty in times of a pandemic. In H. Eidenmüller, L. Enriques, K. van Zwieten, & G. Helleringer (Eds.), Covid-19 and business law. (pp. 95-97). Beck.
  • Banking Union and Brexit: the challenge of geography
    Schammo, P. (2019). Banking Union and Brexit: the challenge of geography. In G. Lo Schiavo (Ed.), The European Banking Union and the role of law. (pp. 87-107). Edward Elgar.
  • National report – United Kingdom
    Georgosouli, A., & Schammo, P. (2016). National report – United Kingdom. In G. Bándi, P. Darák, A. Halustyik, & P. Láncos (Eds.), European Banking Union. XXVII. FIDE Congress proceedings. (pp. 584-607). Wolters Kluwer.
  • Differentiated Integration and the Single Supervisory Mechanism: which way forward for the European Banking Authority?
    Schammo, P. (2016). Differentiated Integration and the Single Supervisory Mechanism: which way forward for the European Banking Authority? In P. Birkinshaw & A. Biondi (Eds.), Britain alone! The implications and consequences of United Kingdom exit from the EU. (pp. 311-335). Kluwer Law International.
  • Capital Markets Union and Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs): a Preliminary Assessment
    Schammo, P. (2015). Capital Markets Union and Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs): a Preliminary Assessment. In F. Allen, E. Carletti, & J. Gray (Eds.), The new financial architecture in the Eurozone. (pp. 137-176). European University Institute. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2605549
  • Marchés financiers - émetteurs
    Schammo, P. (2014). Marchés financiers - émetteurs. In Jurisclasseur Europe, fascicule 1025 (1025th ed., pp. 1-22). Lexis Nexis, JurisClasseur: Europe Traité.
  • Comments on abuse of rights in EU law
    Schammo, P. (2011). Comments on abuse of rights in EU law. In R. de la Feria & S. Vogenauer (Eds.), Prohibition of abuse of law : a new general principle of EU law ? (pp. 193-199). Hart.
  • Corporate Finance Law in the UK and the EU
    Schammo, P. (2011). Corporate Finance Law in the UK and the EU. In D. Prentice & A. Reisberg (Eds.), Equivalence-based Regulation and EU Prospectus Law - the Shadow Regime (pp. 493-518). OUP.

Journal Article

Other (Print)

Supervision students

Joe Perry