Jeffrey Golden KC (Hon)

Editorships

• General Editor of the Capital Markets Law Journal (Oxford University Press).
• Series Editor, Financial Law and Practice series (Edward Elgar Publishing).
• Editor of and contributor to The International Capital Markets Review (Law Business Research, annual hardback publication, 2011-2019 editions).
• Consultant Editor for C Jordan, International Capital Markets: Law and Institutions (Oxford University Press, hardback publication, 2014 and 2^nd edition 2021).

Treatises and Collections

• International Financial Disputes: Arbitration and Mediation (with Carolyn Lamm and contributions by Lord Woolf, Lord Collins, Sir William Blair and others, Oxford University Press, hardback publication, 2015).
• The chapter “The Future of Financial Regulation: The Role of the Courts,” in The Future of Financial Regulation (MacNeil & O’Brien, eds., London, 2010).
• The chapter “Do We Need a World Court for the Financial Markets?,” in The Hague: Legal Capital? (D. Vriesendorp et. al., eds., Hague, 2008).
• The chapter “Demystifying the Career of an International Derivatives Lawyer,” in Careers in International Law (Swartz, ed., Chicago, third edition 2008; fourth edition 2012).

Recent Articles

• “Interpreting ISDA terms: when market practice is relevant, as of when is it relevant?” Capital Markets Law Journal (July 2014).
• “Financial Market Dispute Settlement: Making Sense Out of a Current Nonsense,” Hague Yearbook of International Law (Vol.XXV, 2014).
• “Judges and Systemic Risk in the Financial Markets,” Fordham Journal of Corporate & Financial Law (Vol.XVIII, No.2, 2013).
• “Introducing P.R.I.M.E. Finance – The Hague Based Dispute Resolution Facility for Financial Market Disputes,” CapLaw (No.1/2013).
• “Experientia Docet: The Special Contribution of Henderson on Derivatives, 2nd Edition,” International Banking and Financial Law (September 2011).
• “We Need a World Financial Court with Specialist Judges” Financial Times (September 9, 2009).
• “The Courts, the Financial Crisis and Systemic Risk,” Capital Markets Law Journal (July 2009).

• American Bar Association (former Chairman, ABA Section of International Law and Section Delegate, ABA House of Delegates)
• Fellows of the American Bar Foundation (Life Fellow and former International Co-Chairman)
• American Law Institute
• International Bar Association (former Trustee, IBA Foundation)
• Society of English and American Lawyers (SEAL) (former Chairman)
• Society of Legal Scholars
• Commercial Bar Association (COMBAR)
• Judiciary of England and Wales Financial List Users Committee
• Commonwealth Lawyers Association (CLA)

• Admitted to practice in the State of New Jersey (1978), the State of New York (1979), and before the Supreme Court of the United States (1983).

• King’s Counsel (formerly Queen’s Counsel) Honoris Causa.
• Joint Head of Chambers (from 2018 to April 2022)
• Honorary Master of the Bench, Honorary Society of Middle Temple.
• Honorary Fellow, London School of Economics and Political Science.
• Emeritus Governor, London School of Economics and Political Science.
• Founder and Chair Emeritus of P.R.I.M.E. Finance Foundation in The Hague.
• External Review Pool Member, ISDA Americas Determinations Committee.
• Approved by UK Department of International Trade as suitable chairperson or UK nominee for financial services arbitration rosters for United Kingdom free trade agreements.

Prior Appointments include:

• Visiting Professor, London School of Economics and Political Science.
• Member of Court, London School of Economics and Political Science.
• The Financial Stability Board’s Market Participants Group for Reforming Interest Rate Benchmarks. Served on the Law Society of England & Wales Special Task Force on BREXIT.
• Financial Markets Law Committee’s working groups on amicus briefs, emergency powers legislation and Enron v TXU (Chairman).
• Financial Law Panel’s working groups on agency dealings by fund managers and other intermediaries and building societies legislation.
• Federal Trust’s working group on European securities regulation
• European Commission’s study group and City of London joint working group on the legal aspect of monetary union.
• ISDA task forces on the legal aspects of monetary union, including advising ISDA’s Market Practice Advisory Committee.
• Commissioner, American Bar Association Commission on Ethics 20/20
• Co-Chairman of ABA Section of International Law’s Financial Engineering for Economic Development (FEED) and International Criminal Court Task Forces and International Securities and Capital Markets and U.S. Lawyers Practicing Abroad Committees.
• Board of the ABA Rule of Law Initiatives and Steering Committee of the ABA/UNDP International Legal Resource Center.
• ABA working group on the rule of law and economic development (Chairman).
• American Bar Association Representative to the United Nations Economic and Social Council in Geneva and Vienna.
• Trustee, International Bar Association Foundation.
• Contested Histories in Public Spaces Task Force of the International Bar Association, the Institute for Historical Justice & Reconciliation and the Salzburg Global Seminar.
• European Bank for Reconstruction and Development Local Capital Market Development Legal and Regulatory Assessment Advisory Panel.
• Chairman of the London School of Economics Global Alumni Association.
• Appointments Committee, UK Young Academy.
• Judge, Financial News Awards for Legal Excellence.
• Judge, LexisNexis Legal Awards

• “Hedging Planetary Risks: ‘From Weapons of Mass Destruction to Tools of Massive Social and Ecological Innovation,’” (with S Brunnhuber, M Bozesan, G Jacobs and P Koundouri), Cadmus (Vol. 4, Issue 4, June 2021).
• “Sailing into the rules of smart contracts . . .,” (with A Datoo), International Banking and Financial Law (Vol.36, No.6, June 2021).
• “ISDA and ADR: A Brief History of a Long Relationship,” Swedish Yearbook of Arbitration (November 2020).
• “Interpreting ISDA terms: when market practice is relevant, as of when is it relevant?” Capital Markets Law Journal (July 2014).
• “Financial Market Dispute Settlement: Making Sense Out of a Current Nonsense,” Hague Yearbook of International Law (Vol.XXV, 2014).
• “Judges and Systemic Risk in the Financial Markets,” Fordham Journal of Corporate & Financial Law (Vol.XVIII, No.2, 2013).
• “Introducing P.R.I.M.E. Finance – The Hague Based Dispute Resolution Facility for Financial Market Disputes,” CapLaw (No.1/2013).
• “Experientia Docet: The Special Contribution of Henderson on Derivatives, 2nd Edition,” International Banking and Financial Law (September 2011).
• “We Need a World Financial Court with Specialist Judges” Financial Times (September 9, 2009). “The Courts, the Financial Crisis and Systemic Risk,” Capital Markets Law Journal (July 2009).
• “The Courts, the Financial Crisis and Systemic Risk,” Capital Markets Law Journal (July 2009).
• “Lawyers in Agreement,” Risk Special Report (March 2005).
• “The EU Prospectus and Transparency Directives – Towards a Unified European Capital Markets Regime,” (with Dorothee Fischer-Appelt), Secuities Regulation in Europe (PLI, December 2004).
• “ISDA’s 2002 Master Agreement Protocol,” Derivatives Week (February 2004).”
• “Fixing the Plumbing,” The Treasurer (September 2003).
• “Cutting Your Losses,” Risk Magazine (June 1999).
• “The ISDA EMU protocol: readying derivatives contracts,” The ~Treasurer (July/August 1998).
• “Regulating Derivatives: The Importance of Asking the Right Questions and Listening to the Answers,” Journal of International Banking Law (August 1994).
• “Setting Standards in the Evolution of Swap Documentation,” International Financial Law Review (May 1994).

Selected Earlier Articles on Public International Law Subjects:

• “The World Court: The Qualifications of the Judges,” Columbia Journal of Law and Social Problems (Vol.14, No.1, 1978).
• “National Groups and the Nomination of Judges of the International Court of Justice: A Preliminary Report,” International Lawyer (Vol.9, No.2, 1975).
• The chapter “Force and International Law,” in The Use of Force in International Relations (Northedge, ed., Faber and Faber Limited, London, 1974).
• “The Sociology of International Law,” Millennium: Journal of International Studies (Vol.3, No.2, LSE, 1974). “The International Court of Justice,” Millennium: Journal of International Studies (Vol.1, No.1, LSE, 1971).

• Lifetime Contributor – Private Practice Award, Law.com/Legal Week’s Legal Innovation Awards 2020
• American Bar Association International Lifetime Achievement Award
• Honorary Bencher, The Honourable Society of Middle Temple
• Honorary Fellow, London School of Economics and Political Science
• Other recent awards (including for led projects and law firm teams) include 2024-2025 American Bar Association Presidential Citation; The Halsbury Rule of Law Award 2020 – P.R.I.M.E. Finance; The Legal 500 Inaugural Arbitration Powerlist 2018; Best Arbitration Development of the Year 2016 (runner up), Best Published Arbitration Decision of the Year 2015 (runner-up) and Best Newcomer 2012 – P.R.I.M.E. Finance (Global Arbitration Review); Derivatives Law Firm of the Year 2009 (RISK); 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005 (Derivatives Week); FT Innovative Lawyers Award 2007 (Financial Times); and Capital Markets Team of the Year 1998 (Legal Business).
• Listed in Best Lawyers (United Kingdom Edition)