Roderic Kermarec

Roderic Kermarec completed a DPhil in Law under the supervision of Luca Enriques and Christopher Hare. His doctoral thesis focused on the recent development of extraterritoriality in banking and financial regulation, with a specific emphasis on deference techniques such as the concepts of 'equivalence'  in the European Union and 'substituted compliance' in the United States. Roderic has held lectureships in European Law at Christ Church and University College, in Roman Law at Queen's College, and taught Contract Law at Trinity College. He was also a visiting-professor at the Essec Business School in Paris, where he taught Corporate Law and Banking and Financial Law.

Prior to his DPhil, Roderic completed the Magister Juris and the MPhil in Law (Distinction). He previously graduated from the Pantheon-Assas University in Paris, where he received a Master’s degree in Business Law (Cum Laude), a Master’s degree in Banking and Financial Law (Cum Laude) and a Graduate Certificate in Banking and Financial Law (Summa Cum Laude, Valedictorian). He is also fully qualified to practice law in France. 

Roderic was awarded the Freshfields Prize for the best student in Business Law in France and the Spitz-Poulle Prize for the best student in Financial Law in France. He is a laureate of the Paris Bar School for outstanding achievement, a laureate of the Pantheon-Assas University in Criminal Law, and a recipient of the Herbert Smith Freehills and Alpa scholarships.

Roderic is a member of the European Banking Institute's Young Researchers Group, and a representative member of the European Corporate Governance Institute. He was an associate-editor of the Oxford Business Law Blog, and the coach of the Oxford team, runner-up of the 2017 Oxford French Law Moot.