Associate Professor of Law at the University of Melbourne, Australia
Contact Cally Jordan

Course: Financial Instruments
Seminarial: International Securities Regulation


Cally Jordan holds several degrees, among which a BA (Carleton) and an MA (Toronto); law degrees from McGill University where she was first in her class in the combined common law/civil law program and Editor-in-Chief of the McGill Law Journal; a DEA, with distinction from the Université de Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne). She has clerked at the Supreme Court of Canada and practiced commercial and international financial law in New York, California, Ontario, Quebec, and Hong Kong for several law firms, including Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton.

She has taught at the Universities of McGill, Florida, Tulane, Melbourne, and at the Georgetown Law Center and Osgoode Hall Law School.  She is a member of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) and of the Law Council of Australia, and an elected member of the American Law Institute. She has participated in activities of the Council on Foreign Relations (New York City), the Brookings Institution (Washington, DC) and the Asia Society (New York City). Both as counsel to the ADB and the World Bank as well as an external advisor, she has advised the UK Department of Trade and Industry and governments in Asia, Latin America, North Africa, Central and Eastern Europe and the Gulf region, on financial sector law and regulation, capital markets, corporate law and corporate governance. She is the author of nearly 60 publications.