Dr Dominic Thomas-James

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Biography

Dr Dominic Thomas-James is Course Director of the International Development Undergraduate programme at the Institute of Continuing Education (ICE). He earned his Ph.D. and M.Phil. from Queens’ College, Cambridge and is a Fellow at Yale University’s Global Justice Program. His research interests sit within the field of economic crime and international development. He is particularly concerned with suspect wealth transiting into jurisdictions that operate sophisticated financial centres, and their legal and regulatory responses to economic crime. He is a Secretariat Member of the International Symposium on Economic Crime at Jesus College, Cambridge and regularly speaks at conferences and forums internationally. Dr Thomas-James’s written work has been published in peer-reviewed journals and his forthcoming book on Offshore Financial Centres and the Law is in contract with Routledge. He is regularly invited to serve as a consultant or expert to various inter-governmental and international organisations – recent consultancies include ICC FraudNet and GIABA. Dr Thomas-James was called to the Bar of England and Wales by the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple, and is a practising Barrister and Door Tenant at Goldsmith Chambers, London.

Qualifications:

Ph.D., University of Cambridge

Barrister (England & Wales), Honourable Society of the Inner Temple

M.Phil., University of Cambridge

LL.B., King’s College London

Research

Economic Crime; UK Overseas Territories; Crown Dependencies; Corruption; Money Laundering; Terrorism Financing; Financial Regulation & Compliance; Offshore and International Financial Centres; Illicit Wealth; Tax Misconduct; International and Institutional Development.

Selected Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Thomas-James, D. ‘Open Books: Is the Offshore World now safe?’, The Company Lawyer (forthcoming). , 2020
Thomas-James, D. ‘The Cost of “Going Public”: Examining Recent Public Beneficial Ownership Commitments’, Journal of Financial Crime (forthcoming). , 2020
Thomas-James, D. and Azinge, N. ‘Financial Inclusion/Exclusion and Covid-19: Implications for Anti-Money Laundering Regulation, with Reference to Nigeria’, Financial Regulation International, 23(5): 22-24. , 2020
Thomas-James, D. ‘Crisis and the Morality of “Offshore”: Examining legislative calls to exclude Covid-19 financial relief to “tax haven” companies’, The Company Lawyer, 41(8): 238-240. , 2020
Thomas-James, D. and Petersen, D. A. ‘A Global Pandemic and China’s Foreign Direct Investment in Europe: Examining Protectionist Regulation in Times of ‘Dangerous Opportunity’’, The Company Lawyer, 41(8): 223-230. , 2020
Thomas-James, D. ‘Reviewing International Standards on Beneficial Ownership Information of Companies’, The Company Lawyer, 41(5): 129-131. , 2020
Thomas-James, D. ‘Legal Safeguards Under Threat? Revisiting the Panama and Paradise Papers and other Transparency Initiatives’, The Company Lawyer, 41(2): 53-55. , 2020
Thomas-James, D. ‘Beneficial Ownership and the UK Overseas Territories: More Haste, Less Speed?’, The Company Lawyer, 40(8): 263-264. , 2019
Thomas-James, D. ‘Unexplained Wealth Orders in the Criminal Finances Bill: A Suitable Measure to Tackle Unaccountable Wealth in the UK?’, Journal of Financial Crime, 24(2): 178-180. , 2017

OTHER

Thomas-James, D. ‘Does the UK Need to Create a Criminal Offence of Illicit Enrichment – or is the Unexplained Wealth Order provision of the Criminal Finances Bill 2016 a welcome compromise?’, in Unexplained Wealth Orders: Thoughts on Scope and Effect in the UK, White Collar Crime Centre, January 2017. , 2017

Memberships

Barrister (England & Wales)

Honourable Society of the Inner Temple

Accredited Mediator, ADR Group

Institute of Continuing Education
Madingley Hall
Madingley
Cambridge
CB23 8AQ

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