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Christopher Whelan

Email: whelanc@wlu.edu
Office: 452B Sydney Lewis Hall
Phone: 540-458-8330
Fax: 540-458-8488

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Christopher J. Whelan

Visiting Professor of Law

LL.B., London School of Economics; Ph.D., London School of Economics.

Publications

I BOOKS

CREATIVE ACCOUNTING AND THE CROSS-EYED JAVELIN THROWER (John Wiley, London, 368pp, 1999, co-authored with D. McBarnet. Extracts reproduced in (1999) European Accounting Focus 12-16)

SMALL CLAIMS COURTS: A COMPARATIVE STUDY (Clarendon, Oxford, 1990, 253pp, edited)

THE LAW AND ECONOMICS OF PROFESSIONAL LIABILITY INSURANCE (special issues of the Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance, Geneva Association, 1989, 155pp, edited)

MILITARY INTERVENTION IN DEMOCRATIC COSIETIES (Croom Helm, London, 1985, 312pp, co-edited with P. Rowe)

LEGAL SYSTEMS AND SOCIAL SYSTEMS (Croom Helm, London, 1985, 262pp, co-edited with A. Podgorecki and D. Khosla)

SOCIOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO LAW (Croom Helm, London, 1981, 251pp, co-edited with A. Podgorecki)

II THE LEGAL PROFESSION, LAWYERS' ETHICS AND ACCESS TO JUSTICE

(2012) 'Privatizing Professionalism: Client Control of Lawyers' Ethics', Fordham L. Rev (forthcoming, with Neta Ziv).

(2008) The Paradox of Professionalism: Global Law Practice Means Business, Penn St. Int'l L. Rev. 465-501

(2007) Some Realism About Professionalism: Core Values, Legality, and Corporate Law Practice, 55 Buffalo L. Rev. 1067-1136 available at Lexis and Westlaw.(reprinted in N. Rappaport, Enron Corporate Fiascos and Their Implications (Foundation Press, 2009)).

(2001) 'Ethical Conflicts in Legal Practice: Creating Professional Responsibility' 52 South Carolina Law Review 697-727

(2001) 'Ethics Beyond the Horizon: Why Regulate the Global Practice of Law?' 34 Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 931-952

(1993) 'Co-operation between Lawyers and Accountants in England and Wales', in M. Faure (ed) De Samenwerking Tussen Advocaten en Accountants (METRO, Limburg, Holland)

(1992) 'Lawyers in the Market: Delivering Legal Services in Europe', 19 Journal of Law and Society 49-68 (with D McBarnet)

Reprinted in P. Thomas (ed) (1992) Tomorrow's Lawyers (Basil Blackwell, Oxford) 49-68 Reprinted (with minor amendments) in G. Weick (ed) (1993) National and European Law on theThreshold to the Single European Market (Peter Lang, Frankfurt) 303-29

(1990) 'Small Claims in England and Wales: Redefining Justice', in C. Whelan (ed) Small Claims Courts: A Comparative Study (Clarendon Press, Oxford) 99-132

(1990) 'Small Claims Courts: Heritage and Adjustment', in C. Whelan (ed) Small Claims Courts: A Comparative Study (Clarendon, Oxford) 207-34

(1989) 'The "Crisis" in Professional Liability Insurance', in C. Whelan (ed) The Law and Economics of Professional Liability Insurance (Geneva Association) 296-307 (with D McBarnet)

(1989) 'Medical Litigation: Trends, Causes and Consequences', in R. Dingwall (ed) Socio- Legal Aspects of Medical Practice (Royal College of Physicians, London) (with P Fenn) 5-19

(1988) 'Litigation and Complaints Procedures: Objectives, Effectiveness and Alternatives', 14 Journal of Medical Ethics 70-76

(1987) 'The Role of Research in Civil Justice Reform: Small Claims in the County Court', 7 Civil Justice Quarterly 237-47

(1983) 'Professional Negligence and the Quality of Legal Services: An Economic Perspective', 46 Modern Law Review 700-18 (with C Veljanovski)

(1981) 'Informalising Judicial Procedures', in S. Henry (ed) Informal Institutions: Alternative Networks in the Corporate State (St Martin's Press, New York) 166-78

(1980) 'An Assessment of the Master Policy Indemnity Insurance Scheme', 131 New Law Journal 328-30 (with C Veljanovski)

III CORPORATE FINANCE, CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND ECONOMIC LAW

(1999) 'Waving the Red Flag?', The Accountant 14-15 (with D. McBarnet)

(1999) 'Painting by Numbers', Accounting Technician November 16-18 (with D. McBarnet)

(1999) 'Creative Accounting and the Cross-Eyed Javelin Thrower' , European Accounting Focus 12-16 (with D. McBarnet)

(1999) 'The Defective Detectives' 124 Accountancy 105 (with D. McBarnet)

(1999) 'Creative Accounting' 2:9 Accounting and Business, October 39-42

(1998) 'Challenging the Regulators: Strategies for Resisting Control', in J.C. McCrudden (ed) Regulation and Deregulation - Policy and Practice (Clarendon Press, Oxford) 67-77 (with D. McBarnet)

(1997) 'Creative Compliance and the Defeat of Legal Control', in K. Hawkins (ed) The Human Face of Law (Clarendon Press, Oxford) 177-98 (with D. McBarnet)

(1994) 'Law and the Level Playing Field', in T. Kende (ed) Europai politika es jog (Szazadveg, Hungary - translated into Hungarian) (with D. McBarnet)

(1993) 'Adversary Accounting: Strategic Uses of Financial Information by Capital and Labour', 18 Accounting, Organizations and Society 81-100 (with D. McBarnet and S. Weston)

(1992) 'International Corporate Finance and the Challenge of Creative Compliance', in J. Fingleton (ed) The Internationalisation of Capital Markets and the Regulatory Response (Graham & Trotman, London) 129-46 (with D. McBarnet)

Reprinted in S. Wheeler (ed) (1994) Law and the Business Enterprise (Clarendon Press, Oxford) 403-16

(1992) 'Regulating Accounting: Limits in the Law', in M. Bromwich and T. Hopwood (eds) Accounting and the Law (Prentice Hall, London) 99-111 (with D. McBarnet)

(1991) 'The Elusive Spirit of the Law: Formalism and the Struggle for Legal Control', 54 Modern Law Review 848-73 (with D. McBarnet)

Reprinted in J. Freedman and M. Power (eds) (1992) Law and Accountancy (Paul Chapman, London) 80-105

Extracts reproduced in D. Chalmers and E. Szyszczak (1998) European Union Law Volume II:Towards a European Polity (Ashgate, Abingdon)

(1986) 'The Law of Interest: Dawn of a New Era?', 64 Canadian Bar Review 142-54 (with R Bowles)

(1985) ' Interest on Debts', 48 Modern Law Review 229-34 (with R Bowles)

(1983) 'Exchange Rate Instability and the Law', 133 New Law Journal 28 (with R Bowles)

(1982) 'Law Commission Working Paper No. 80, Private International Law Foreign Money Liabilities', 45 Modern Law Review 434-46 (with R Bowles)

(1982) 'Foreign Money Liabilities, Working Paper No. 33, Law Reform Commission of British Columbia', 60 Canadian Bar Review 805-16 (with R Bowles)

(1981) 'Judicial Responses to Exchange Rate Instability', in P. Burrows and C. Veljanovski (eds) The Economic Approach to Law (Butterworths, London) 253-72 (with R. Bowles)

(1981) 'International Contracts: English Law and Floating Exchange Rates', National Westminster Bank Quarterly Review 27-36 (with R Bowles)

(1981) 'Judgment Awards and Simple Interest Rates', 1 International Review of Law and Economics 111-14 (with R Bowles)

(1981) 'Arbitrators and Awards of Interest', 44 Modern Law Review 702-06 (with R Bowles)

(1980) 'Recent Legal Responses to Exchange Rate Instability', 12 International Currency Review 25-31

(1979) 'Judgments in Foreign Currencies: Extension of the Miliangos Rule', 42 Modern Law Review 452-58 (cited by the US Federal Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, in Vishipco v Manhattan Bank 660 F2d 854 (1981), with R. Bowles)

(1979) 'The Currency of Suit in Actions for Damages', 25 McGill Law Journal 236-43 (with R Bowles)

IV LABOUR LAW

(1985) 'Armed Forces, Industrial Disputes and the Law', in P. Rowe and C. Whelan (eds) Military Intervention in Democratic Societies (Croom Helm, London) 110-29

(1985) 'Military Intervention in Democratic Societies: The Role of Law', in P. Rowe and C. Whelan (eds) Military Intervention in Democratic Societies (Croom Helm, London) 264-93

(1985) 'Labor Law Reform and Comparative Law', 63 Texas Law Review 601-30 (selected as a "significant article" for inclusion by Westlaw)

(1985) 'Job Security and the Role of Law: An Economic Analysis of Employment at Will', 20 Stanford Journal of International Law 353-92 (with P Fenn)

(1983) 'Industrial Conflict: The Role of Government and the Law in the US and UK', Bibliography in Socio-Legal Studies No. 2 (Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Wolfson College, Oxford)

(1982) 'Remedies for Dismissed Employees in the UK: An Economic Analysis', 2 International Review of Law and Economics 205-25 (with P Fenn) (1982) 'On Uses and Misuses of Comparative Labour Law', 45 Modern Law Review 285-300

(1982) 'State Intervention, Major Disputes and the Role of Law', in Lord Wedderburn and W.T. Murphy (eds) Labour Law and the Community: Perspectives for the 1980s (Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London) 37-47

Extracts reproduced by University of Kent Library, 1987

(1981) 'The Law and the Use of Troops in Industrial Disputes', in R. Fryer et al, Law, State and Society (Croom Helm, London) 160-76

(1979) 'Military Intervention in Industrial Disputes', 8 Industrial Law Journal 222-34


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