My IALS PhD Experience
Name
Dr Calvin Jackson
What was your PhD topic?
Aspect of Financial Services: Executive Remuneration
‘Promoting Highest Professional Standards in UK Remuneration Committee Advisory Services’.
What attracted you to IALS?
Supreme flexibility on part-time/ full-time research student status – because I am a practising member of the Bar. Additionally, IALS was very close to my practice address: 10 minutes’ walk. It was also very important to me to have a Supervisor who was both a technical subject specialist, plus highly encouraging and committed to my success in undertaking doctoral study.
What is your fondest memory from your time at IALS?
I enjoyed sitting in my carrel, writing my thesis while looking over Russell Square through a canopy of London Plane trees.
What have you done since leaving IALS?
Currently securing a book contract with Routledge for a monograph of my doctoral studies.
Continuing as a practising member of the Bar.
Contributing hopefully to FinReg activities post-pandemic.
Anything else that you would like to add.
IALS has many strengths: world class legal library; short distance from the City of London, a major financial centre; supreme flexibility in how research studies are undertaken – fits in well with work commitments, etc; pool of experienced and committed Supervisors.