James Leach

James graduated from the University of Cape Town with a LLB in 2012 and a Master of Law in Commercial Law (LLM) with distinction in 2013, and completed a LLM in Shipping Law in 2014. He became a lecturer in the Faculty of Law’s Commercial Law Department. James has been the primary developer and course convenor of the Postgraduate Diploma in Regulatory Compliance Management at the UCT Faculty of Law and has been running a short course in compliance management on behalf of UCT Law@work and Get Smarter since 2015. Outside of compliance management, his interest lies in theories of corporate legal regulation, cryptocurrencies and crypto-banking, corporate governance and financial aspects of corporate financing structures.