Sol Picciotto (born 1942) is a Syrian-born British academic, emeritus professor of law at

Lancaster University Lancaster University (legally The University of Lancaster) is a public university, public research university in Lancaster, Lancashire, Lancaster, Lancashire, England. The university was established in 1964 by royal charter, as one of several pla ...

Life

Sol Picciotto was born in

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, Syria in 1942, of Jewish parents. His family left Syria in 1947 to 1948, and he was educated at Manchester Grammar School. Picciotto was educated at the

University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...

(BA) and the

University of Chicago The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois. Its main campus is located in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood. The University of Chicago is consistently ranked among the b ...

(JD). Picciotto has been joint editor of the ''International Journal of the Sociology of Law'', and founding joint editor of ''Social and Legal Studies'' and an editorial consultant on the ''Australian Journal of Law and Society''. He is a senior adviser at the Tax Justice Network. Picciotto's students have included

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who is also involved with the Tax Justice Network.

Publications

*'' and John Holloway (eds.), State and Capital: A Marxist Debate, 1978 *''International Business Taxation'' (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1992) *''Corporate Control and Accountability'' (OUP 1993) *''International Regulatory Competition and Coordination'' (OUP, 1996) *''Regulating International Business - Beyond Liberalization'' (Macmillan, 1999) *''Regulating Global Corporate Capitalism'' (2011)

References

1942 births Academics of Lancaster University British non-fiction writers British people of Syrian-Jewish descent Living people People educated at Manchester Grammar School People from Aleppo Syrian Jews Alumni of the University of Oxford University of Chicago alumni {{UK-academic-bio-stub