Dr Hamiisi Nsubuga
About
Overview
Dr Hamiisi Junior Nsubuga is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the City Law School, City University London. Hamiisi is the Director of the City Law Review, the Open Access (OA) Lead for the City Law School Academic Programmes and the Co-Editor of the City Law School Working Paper Series (CLS WPS). He holds a LL.B. from the University of London, a PGDL, LL.M. (Corporate Law) and a PhD (Law) from Nottingham Trent University. Dr Hamiisi is an active member of several leading institutions in the field of Corporate Law, Corporate Insolvency Law, International Business Law and Banking and financial Law. He is a Member of INSOL International (Academic Section), INSOL Europe (Early Researcher Academics), the British Institute of International and Comparative Law and the British Academy. Dr Hamiisi is the recipient of the British Academy/Leverhulme SRG Grant in the 2024 round to work on an Insolvency Toolkit for SMEs in Uganda to enhance sustainability.
Dr Hamiisi is a peer reviewer for the International Company & Commercial Law Review and an Editorial Board Member of the INSOL Africa Newsletter. He has published scholarly articles, books and book chapters on Comparative Insolvency Law and Business/Corporate Law broadly conceived, but with the main focus on the theoretical and conceptual underpinnings of corporate insolvency law regimes of the UK, the USA and the Developing economies, such as Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and Nigeria.
His Book, Employee Rights in Corporate Insolvency - a UK and US Perspective (Routledge, London) analyses the intersection between the US Bankruptcy/Insolvency systems, especially under the US Bankruptcy Code and UK insolvency framework's approaches to corporate rescue and restructuring broadly conceived, and in particular, how such approaches address employee rights on corporate insolvency. These approaches are then analysed in light of the insolvency and corporate rescue systems of emerging economies, such as Uganda, Nigeria, and Kenya in his subsequent published work.
Qualifications
- PhD (Law), Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom, September 2014 - August 2018
- PG Cert. in HE Teaching, Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom, April 2017 - May 2018
- LLM (Corporate Law), Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom, September 2011 - July 2012
- LLB (Hons), University of London, United Kingdom, 2005 - September 2008
Employment
- Senior Lecturer in Law, City, University of London, United Kingdom, September 2023 - present
Fellowships
- Fellow (FHEA), Higher Education Academy/AdvanceHE, July 2020 - present
Memberships of professional organisations
- Academic member and contributor, INSOL Europe (Early Research Academics- ERA), June 2020 - present
- Research/Academic member, Cross-border Insolvency & Commercial Law (• CI&CL Research Network), March 2019 - present
- Academic Section, INSOL International (Academic Member)
Languages
English (can read, write, speak) and Swahili (can read, write, speak)
Research students
2ndsupervisor
- Laura Vialon, Research Student
Publications
Publications by category
Book
- Nsubuga, H.J. (2019). Employee Rights in Corporate Insolvency A UK and US Perspective. Routledge. ISBN 9781000731118.
Chapters (5)
- Nsubuga, H.J. (2022). Unravelling the Mystery behind Bank Insolvencies in the East African Community (EAC) – The case for Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania. In Akintola, K. and Adeyemo, F. (Eds.), Bank Insolvency Law in Developing Economies (pp. 98-118). Routledge. ISBN 9780367711863.
- Nsubuga, H.J. (2022). Local public entities in distress: an analysis of the Ugandan approach. In Coordes, L. and Vaccari, E. (Eds.), When Liquidation is not an Option – A Global Study on Local Public Entities in Financial Distress (pp. 128-138). London, UK: INSOL International.
- Nsubuga, H.J. (2022). A reconsideration of directors’ liability for wrongful trading in the UK and the EU in the COVID19 era. In Vaccari, E. (Ed.), A Collection of Short Papers by INSOL Early Research Academics (INSOL ERA) INSOL International.
- Nsubuga, H.J. (2020). Women on corporate boards of public listed companies - a UK and EU gender diversity conundrum. In Howard, E., Dominguez-Redondo, E. and Baéz, N.L.X. (Eds.), Affirmative Action and the Law: Efficacy of National and International Approaches (pp. 163-178). Routledge. ISBN 9780367219536.
- Nsubuga, H. (2019). Economic and Social Perspectives of Corporate Insolvency Law in Uganda: The Recent Collapse of Crane Bank (Uganda) and the Response to the 2007-2008 Global Economic Crisis. Insolvency and Bankruptcy Laws: Global Response (pp. 301-311). India: Widener University Delaware Law School and Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI).
Internet publications (3)
- Nsubuga, H.(2025).How involved should the court be in balancing stakeholder interests in insolvency? A spotlight on African emerging economies. The City Law School.
- Nsubuga, H.(2021).A Call to reinvigorate corporate rescue in Uganda as an emerging economy. ACLRH.
- Nsubuga, H.(2019).Towards a Tort of Political Negligence: Political Deceit, Political Misrepresentation and the Brexit Conundrum. Middlesex University London.
Journal articles (15)
- Nsubuga, H. (2026). An Insolvency Toolkit for SMEs in Emerging Economies—A Spotlight on Uganda. Laws, 15(1), pp. 8-8. doi:10.3390/laws15010008
- Nsubuga, H. (2025). In search of a remedy: creditor duty post Sequana and the quest for certainty. International Company and Commercial Law Review, 36(6), pp. 295-308
- Nsubuga, H.J. (2025). Political, regulatory competition and the U.K. debt-restructuring regime at the crossroads. Common Law World Review, 54(2), pp. 90-106. doi:10.1177/14737795251325252
- Nsubuga, H.J. (2023). The Role of the Court in Balancing Stakeholder interests in insolvency in Developing Economies - the Theoretical conundrum. International Company and Commercial Law Review, 34(10), pp. 559-571
- Nsubuga, H.J. (2023). Enhancing Depositor Protection in the Mobile Money Banking Sector in Sub-Saharan African Developing Economies—A Case for Ring-fencing? Journal of International Banking Law and Regulation, 38(1), pp. 1-9
- Nsubuga, H.J. and Adebola, B. (2023). Editorial. International Company and Commercial Law Review, 34(10), pp. 553-558
- Nsubuga, H.J. (2023). Fifteen Years of the Statutory Derivative Regime under the Companies Act 2006: A Reflection on an unfulfilled Superfluous Statutory Regime. Contemporary Issues in Law, 15(1), pp. 63-84
- Nsubuga, H.J. (2022). The Debtor-in-Possession Model in the EU Insolvency and Restructuring Framework—A Domino Effect? Journal of Business Law, 2022(3), pp. 238-251
- Nsubuga, H. (2021). Reinvigorating corporate rescue in developing economies – a Ugandan perspective. Insolvency Intelligence, 34(4), pp. 95-102
- Nsubuga, H. and Watkins, L. (2020). The road to Prest v Petrodel: an analysis of the UK judicial approach to the corporate veil - Part 2: post Prest. International Company and Commercial Law Review, 31(11), pp. 597-608
- Watkins, L. and Nsubuga, H. (2020). The road to Prest v Petrodel: an analysis of the UK judicial approach to the corporate veil - part 1. International Company and Commercial Law Review, 31(10), pp. 547-588
- Nsubuga, H. (2020). The role of the central bank in financial distress management and resolution in developing economies. Journal of International Banking Law and Regulation, 35(5), pp. 208-214
- Nsubuga, H. (2019). The call for harmonisation of cross-border insolvency laws to enable cross-border filing and litigation in the East African community. International Company and Commercial Law Review, 30(12), pp. 659-668
- Nsubuga, H.J. (2018). The interpretative approach to bankruptcy law. International Journal of Law and Management, 60(3), pp. 824-841. doi:10.1108/ijlma-03-2017-0079
- Nsubuga, H.J. (2016). Corporate insolvency and employment protection: a theoretical perspective. Nottingham Insolvency and Business Law e-Journal, 4(1)
Professional activities
Editorial activity (3)
- INSOL Africa Newsletter, Editor - International Developments (Corporate Insolvency and Restructuring), August 2023 - present.
- Co-Convenor of the Spotlight Series on Insolvency and Corporate Governance Africa under the Commercial Law Reform Network Nigeria, Editor and Co-convenor, February 2021 - present.
- Commercial Law Reform Network Nigeria, Editor, February 2021 - present.