DALLAS - Key Persons

Dr. Olson's doctoral thesis supervisor at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies was Dr. Olson's long-time friend and colleague, Professor Joseph Jude Norton, A.B., LLB (Hons, Edinb), LLM, SJD, Dipl. (Hague), DPhil. (Oxon), LLD (hc) (Stockholm), LLD (London), and LLD (hc) (Edinb). Professor Norton is the James L. Walsh Distinguished Faculty Fellow in Financial Institution Law and a Professor at the Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law. From 1993 to 2005, he was the Sir John Lubbock Professor of Banking Law and Head of the International Financial Law Unit, University of London. He is an honorary Professor of the Centre for Commercial Law Studies (Queen Mary-London.) Other positions he has held include the Nomura Distinguished Visiting Professor of Financial Regulation at Harvard Law School; Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at Peking University and the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics; Vice Chancellor's Distinguished University Professor of Law and co-founder of the Asian Institute of International Financial Law at Hong Kong University; and founder and Executive Director of the Southern Methodist University Institute of International Banking and Finance. Professor Norton has written extensively in the area of financial regulation (domestic, regional and international) and has lectured worldwide in this area. He was a corporate/commercial law partner with a major Dallas law firm and subsequently has continued to consult privately with law firms, private businesses and financial institutions, and governmental and intergovernmental bodies (domestically and abroad). He holds a Martindale Hubbell AV (highest) attorney rating and is an elected member of the American Law Institute, the American Academy of Commercial Lawyers, and the International Conference of Consumer and Commercial Law. Professor Norton regularly teaches the courses of Banking Law, International Banking and Finance and Global Financial Market Regulation (which he currently co-teaches with G.N. Olson) at the Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law.