Dr Simon Norton

Qualifications

• LLB (Cardiff Law School, University of Wales)
• LLM (Cardiff Law School, University of Wales)
• PhD (Department of Maritime Studies, University of Wales)

Teaching profile

• Course Director for first year course, Legal Studies, relating to the nature of constitutions, tortious liability, and elements of contract.
• Course Director for second year course, Law of Banking, Commerce, and Investment, relating to bank regulation, money laundering, capital markets instruments, Islamic banking, bankers' security, the impact of bank activity upon the natural environment, corporate governance in banks, causes of bank failure.
• External Examiner for Caribbean-based business school in the subject of bank regulation and security.
• Course Director for Marine Insurance for the training body of the Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers.
• Supervisor of numerous dissertations on postgraduate degree schemes.

Currently supervising PhD's in the following subjects:

• 'The state of corporate social responsibility in Malaysia: an ethnocentric approach', submission date Autumn 2010.
• 'Environmental management in the banking sector in Malaysia', submission date 2011.
• 'Corporate governance in the banking sector of Pakistan', anticipated submission date 2012.

Research interests

• Business ethics: banking activity and its impact upon the natural environment
• Corporate governance in the context of financial institutions Banking regulation and financial fragility
• Innovation in the global capital markets
• Islamic finance and financial instruments
• Public sector administration and reform including public private partnerships, private finance initiatives, supreme audit institutions (SAI's).

Research currently in progress for 3 and 4 star journal submissions

• Banking sector corporate governance in a developing economy context
• Organisational theory and application in the courtroom
• Supreme audit institutions: a cross-cultural comparative approach.

Selected publications

Solomon, J.F., Solomon, A., Norton, S.D. and Joseph, N.L. Private climate change reporting: an emerging discourse of risk and opportunity? Accounting, Auditing, and Accountability, 2011, Vol. 24, No. 8, pp. 1119-1150.

Norton, S.D'Judicial Interpretation of the Will of the State: A Hegelian Perspective in the Context of Taxation'. Accepted for final publication in Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 2012.

Norton, S.D. The Causes of the Banking Crises of the 1920's. The World Financial Review, January/February 2012, pp. 36-40, accessible at http://www.worldfinancialreview.com/?p=1306

Norton, S. D. 1999. Liberalisation in the international telecommunications market: the general agreement on trade in services. Communications Law, Vol. 4 No 6 pp 223-229.

Norton S. D. Auditor Liability since Caparo: Legal Formalism versus Economic Realism. The Commercial Liability Law Review ( June) 2000, pp. 73-107.

Solomon, J.F., Solomon A, S.D. Norton. 2002. Socially responsible investment in the UK; drivers and current issues. Journal of General Management, Vol 27 No 3 Spring pp1-13.

Solomon J. F. , Lin, S. Norton S.D., and A. Solomon (2003) The evolving function of the Board of Directors in Taiwanese companies: Corporate Governance; An International Review. Vol 11, No. pp235-248.

Solomon J. F. , Solomon A. Joseph N.L. and S.D. Norton (2002). Who would be a trustee? The growth of SRI in UK pension funds. New Academy Review Vol 1 No. 4, Winter pp98-104.

Solomon, J. F., Solomon, A., Norton, S. D. and N. L. Joseph (2000) "A Conceptual Framework for Corporate Risk Disclosure Emerging from the Agenda for Corporate Governance Reform". British Accounting Review, Vol.32, No.4, December, pp.447-478.

Norton, S. D. and J. F. Solomon (2000) "Future Policy Directions for Doi Moi in Vietnam", Global Economic Review, Vol. 29, No. 2, pp. 117-133.

Solomon, J. F., Solomon, A., Joseph, N. L. and S. D. Norton (2000) "Institutional Investors' Views on Corporate Governance Reform: Policy Recommendations for the 21st Century", Corporate Governance: An International Review, Vol.8, No.3, July, pp. 217-226.

Norton, S.D. Securitisation in the Extractive Industries: Stakeholder Sensitivities, Environmental Protection and the Cost of Capital. Greener Management International 53 (Spring 2007), pp. 57-71.

Norton, S.D. Lost in translation: the inappropriateness of occidental new public management to reform of the public sector bureaucracy in Japan, International Journal of Public Sector Management 20 (7) (2007) pp. 674-693.( Highly Commended Award Winner at the Literati Network Awards for Excellence 2008).

Norton, S.D. The natural environment as a salient stakeholder: non-anthropocentrism, ecosystem stability, and the financial markets, Business Ethics: A European Review 16(4) (October 2007) pp. 387-402.

Norton, S.D. and Blanco, L., Public-Private Partnerships: a Comparative Study of New Public Management and Stakeholder Participation in the United Kingdom and Spain. International Journal of Public Policy (accepted November 2007, to be published 2008).

Norton, S.D. and Smith, M., Contrast and Foundation of the Public Oversight Roles of the U.S. Government Accountability Office and the U.K. National Audit Office. Public Administration Review (accepted June 2008 for publication in September/October 2008).

Sadah, Muhammad Abu. Norton S. D. 2008. The Application of Uncitral Model Law Principles in the Middle East Region. Arab Law Quarterly, Vol 22 No. 3. pp 219-269. A comparative analysis of US policy initiatives and their implications in a credit crisis: The Depression Era of the 1920's in a twenty-first century context.

Norton, S.D. Journal of Financial Services Marketing, Vol. 14, No. 4, 2010, pp. 328-345. The perceived need for and impediments to achieving accounting transparency in developing countries: a field investigation on Bangladesh'.

Nurunnabi, M., Karim, A.K.M.W., Norton, S.D. International Journal of Managerial and Financial Accounting, due summer 2010. Chapter in Creative Accounting, edited by Michael Jones for Wiley and Sons Ltd; 'Bank failures and accounting during the financial crisis of 2008-2009',

Norton, S.D. Textbook for the professional body, the Chartered Institute of Shipbrokers, Shipping Finance, Norton, S.D. Witherbys Publishing.

Activities

Membership of Professional Bodies:

• American Society of Public Administration
• Association of International Accounting
• British Accounting Association
• European Accounting Association
• European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists
• International Political Science Association