Education & Affiliations
Biography
Ian J. Murray’s research explores the transnational dimensions of business regulation, especially in the financial sector, with particular attention to how lawyers influence the compliance behavior of multinational firms. His work aims to identify legal strategies to safeguard non-economic values and strengthen democratic influence on market structures. Drawing from legal institutionalism, New Histories of Capitalism, and Law and Political Economy, it explores the role of lawyers and lawmakers in the consolidation of historically contingent market configurations that contribute to global injustices such as inequality, identity-based discrimination, and climate change. It also takes seriously their potential as catalysts for systemic transformation.
Prior to pursuing an academic career, he practiced law as a Corporate Associate in the New York office of Covington & Burling, LLP, where he focused on private equity transactions.
Contributions
Selected Publications
Ian J. Murray, The Offshore Origins of Regulatory Arbitrage, 17 Wm. & Mary Bus. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2026).
Ian J. Murray, “There Not to Conquer, But to Struggle Well”: The International Olympic Committee, the World Anti-Doping Agency, the Court of Arbitration for Sport, and the Regulation of Doping in Global Sport, in Global Hybrid and Private Governance: Standard-Setting, Market Regulation, and Institutional Design (Benedict Kingsbury & Richard Stewart eds., forthcoming 2027).
Ian J. Murray & Tommaso Fia, Law, Commodification, and the Distribution of Resources, 24 Global Jurist 221 (2024).
Tommaso Fia & Ian J. Murray, Commodification and the Law: A Genealogy, 2 Eur. L. Open 372 (2023).
Ian J. Murray, Facing the Fiction: Can the European Union Regulate Fictitious Commodities and Capital?, 2 Eur. L. Open 448 (2023).
