Maria Jose Esteban Ferrer
Lecturer, Department of Law in ESADE, Contracted Doctoral Professor at ESADE Business School
Adjunct Professor at IE Business School
Schools
- ESADE Business School
- IE Business School
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Biography
ESADE Business School
María José Esteban has been a Lecturer in the ESADE Department of Law since 2014 and a researcher affiliated to the Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession since 2011. Her research focuses on the area of innovation, the strategic analysis of quality and the organisation of professional bodies. She is the current Co-Director of the Big Four Research Project at the Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession. She is a professor of Mercantile Law and the subject, The Future of Legal Professions, in the Master''s, BBA and Executive Education programmes.
As an attorney, she specialises in Mercantile Law and has been a partner at the Bufete Escura law firm since 1999. Previously, she served as Director of the Legal Department for Situbsa, a leading company in the automotive industry, and she worked in the London offices of the Stephenson Harwood law firm.
Education
- Doctorado. Universidad Ramon Llull
- Licenciatura en Derecho. Universidad de Barcelona
Areas of interest
- Quality, continuous improvement and innovation in professional services.
- Legal professions: the competitive context, structure, organisation, competencies and the regulatory framework.
- Multidisciplinary professional organisations.
IE Business School
Professor Esteban is an expert in the economic, social, and regulatory analysis of legal services and the legal profession. She serves as Senior Research Fellow at the Harvard Law School’s Center on the Legal Profession and, since 2011, co-directs the Center’s Big Four in Law Research Project, a continuing research initiative which examines the reemergence of the Big Four’s legal offerings and the development of a new model of “globally integrated business solutions”. Her most recent contribution consists of research commissioned by the International Bar Association’s Future of Legal Services Commission (formerly Presidential task force on the Future of Legal Services) aimed at facilitating practitioners’ understanding of the most relevant factors driving change in legal services.
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
- Senior Research Fellow, Harvard Law School, USA, 2019 – Present
- Vice-Chairman Social Sciences Section, Royal European Academy of Doctors, Spain, 2020 – Present
- Lecturer, Ramon Llull University, Spain, 2010 – 2021
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
- Leadership in Law Firms Program, Harvard law School, USA, 2011
- Doctorate, Ramon Llull University, Spain, 2010
- Advanced Doctoral Studies (DEA), Ramon Llull University, Spain, 2007
- Senior Business Management Program (PADE), IESE Business School, Spain, 2002 – 2003
- Law Degree, Universidad de Barcelona, Spain, 1984
AREA
- Comparative Private and Business Law
- Law and Humanities
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