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Biography
Toni joined the University of Kent in July 2007. She started her academic career at UCL and then worked at Osgoode Hall Law School of York University for several years. Toni has held visiting appointments at the University of Toronto and the University of Wisconsin -- Madison. In the early 1990s, Toni was appointed to a provincial Royal Commission in Canada that investigated systemic racism in the Ontario criminal justice system.
Research Areas:Critical Commercial Law, Business Law and Regulation, Gender and Sexuality, Law and Political Economy
Research
Toni's primary research interests concern regulation and governance of economic development and market relations and regulation of race/gender relations. She is currently working on several projects in the area of consumer financial services that critically interrogate the claims of new regulatory strategies to promote economic justice by acting on market accessibility, fairness and financial literacy. Tonis has secondary research interests in the implications of information technology for the regulation of consumer markets and in racial/gender injustice in sentencing and other aspects of criminal justice administration.
Major research project
- Financial consumer education and the regulation of women's decisions in managing household economies.
- A case study Gender, financial exclusion and the regulation of financial consciousness.
- A critical comparison of Canadian and UK policy discourse Regulatory innovation in consumer financial services markets.
- A comparative study of law, gender and economic development Trust in virtue.
- The implications for consumers of fairness regimes in the UK's financial services markets Access to Credit for tiny businesses, 2000-2004, funded by the National Financial Services Policy Program, Schulich School of Business, Toronto Canada.
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Articles
Williams, Toni (2013)
Who Wants to Watch? A Comment on the New International Paradigm of Financial Consumer Market Regulation.
Seattle University Law Review, 36. pp. 1187-1217.
Williams, Toni (2008)
Of Grand Claims and Modest Effects: A Plea for Realism about the Role of Microcredit in Economic Development.
Canadian Business Law Journal, 47 (1). pp. 130-144. ISSN 0319-3322.
Book Sections
Williams, Toni (2013)
Continuity not rupture: the persistence of neoliberalism in the internationalisation of consumer finance regulation.
In: Wilson, T. International Responses to the Credit Crisis: Credit and Over-indebtedness,. Markets and the Law. Ashgate. ISBN 9781409455226. (in press)
Williams, Toni (2013)
Continuity not rupture: the persistence of neoliberalism in the internationalisation of consumer finance regulation.
In: Wilson, T. International Responses to the Credit Crisis: Credit and Over-indebtedness. Ashgate. ISBN 978-1-4094-5522-6. (in press)
Ramsay, Iain and Williams, Toni (2012)
The Crash that Launched a Thousand Fixes: Consumer Credit Regulation after the Credit Crunch.
In: Alexander, K and Moloney, L Law Reform and Financial Markets. Elgar Financial Law. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham. ISBN 9780857936622.
Williams, Toni (2010)
Open the box: An exploration of the FSA's model of fairness in consumer financial transactions.
In: Kenny, M. and Devenney, J. and O'Mahony, L.F. Unconscionability in European Private Financial Transactions: Protecting the Vulnerable 2010. Cambridge University Press, pp. 227-245. ISBN 9780521190534.
Abstract
Williams, Toni (2008)
Intersectionality analysis in the sentencing of Aboriginal women in Canada: what difference does it make?
In: Cooper, Davina and Grabham, Emily and Herman, Didi et al. Intersectionality and Beyond: Law, Power and the Politics of Location. Routledge, London. ISBN 041543243X.
Teaching
Graduate level teaching on Financial Services Regulation and Information Technology and Commercial Law.
Supervision
Toni is happy to supervise graduate work in the areas of: Regulation and Governance of Consumer Financial Services Markets, International Financial Institutions, Economic Development under conditions of Neoliberal Globalization, Information Technology and E-commerce and the Governance and Regulation of Race/Gender Relations.
Currently Supervising
Suraweerage Nanayakkara: MPhil "Performers' rights in South Asia"
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Canadian Journal of Women and the Law, Editorial Board Member (1989-2000) Feminist Legal Studies. Editorial board member (2007-).
Professional Societies
LSA, SLS, CLSA, International Association for Feminist Economics.
External Appointments
Commissioner, Ontario Commission on Systemic Racism 1992-1995.
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