Dr. Maziar Peihani is appointed to the Lawson Lundell UBC Professorship of Business Law. His teaching and research focuses on financial and business law, with his current areas of research including banking regulation, resolution of cross-border bank failures, sovereign debt restructuring, and disclosure and governance of climate-related financial risks. Professor Peihani 's research has appeared in the Harvard International Law Journal and the Canadian Foreign Policy Journal. He received his PhD in law from UBC where his doctoral thesis examined the legitimacy and efficacy of the global governance regime of international banking.
Professor Peihani was a Senior Fellow at the Hennick Centre for Business and Law at Osgoode Hall Law School, as well as a Research Fellow at the National University of Singapore. He previously worked as the lead in-house expert on international financial law at the Centre for International Governance Innovation, a Canadian think tank focused on issues of global governance, law and regulation. In 2018, he served as a member of the Task Force on an International Financial Architecture for Stability and Development, an advisory to the G20 Argentine Presidency.
Professor Peihani has won the British Columbia Law Foundation Scholarship and the David Vaughan QC Memorial Scholarship in Corporate Law.
