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Sue Turner

Assistant Professor

School: Northumbria School of Law

Sue is an Assistant Professor and former Director of Education - CPD at Northumbria Law School with particular expertise in business and finance law and regulation.  She leads numerous specialist modules across postgraduate, undergraduate and professional programmes and is a member of the Financial Crime Compliance Research Interest Group.  Prior to joining Northumbria University, Sue was a banking and finance solicitor with a global law firm.

Sue Turner

Sue's research interests focus on financial regulation and crime.  Sue has been involved in several research projects and initiatives in the field of anti-money laundering policy and frameworks, relating in particular to beneficial ownership.

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  • Can FATF's Focus on Beneficial Ownership Aid Anti-Corruption Efforts in a ‘Low-Capacity’ Country? Challenges From the Front Line in Nigeria, Harvey, J., Sproat, P., Turner, S., Ward, T. 25 Nov 2024, Global Anti-Money Laundering Regulation, London, Routledge
  • Non-Conviction Based Asset Recovery in Nigeria - An Additional Tool for Law Enforcement Agencies?, Sproat, P., Ward, T., Harvey, J., Turner, S., Shehu, A., Bello, A. 11 Sep 2024, Financial Crime, Law and Governance, Cham, Switzerland, Springer
  • Driven to Death: A Chinese case study on the counterfeiting of automotive components, Shen, A., Turner, S., Antonopoulos, G. 1 Sep 2022, In: Asian Journal of Criminology
  • Final Report: tracking beneficial ownership and the proceeds of corruption: evidence from Nigeria, Harvey, J., Bello, A., Doig, A., van Duyne, P., Gonul, M., van Koningsveld, J., Shehu, A., Sittlington, S., Sproat, P., Turner, S., Ward, T. 31 Oct 2021
  • Transnational criminal law: a case study of the international anti-money laundering framework as applied in Nigeria, a case of smoke and mirrors: Global integrity anti-corruption evidence project: hiding the beneficial owner and the proceeds of corruption, Harvey, J., Turner, S., Ward, T., Sproat, P., Bainbridge, J. 2021
  • Interim Project Report: tracking beneficial ownership and the proceeds of corruption: evidence from Nigeria , Harvey, J., Bello, A., Doig, A., van Duyne, P., Gonul, M., van Koningsveld, J., Shehu , A., Sittlington, S., Sproat, P., Turner, S., Ward, T. Nov 2020
  • Solving Child Statelessness: Disclosure, Reporting, and Corporate Responsibility, Brewer, M., Turner, S. 31 Jul 2019, In: British Journal of American Legal Studies
  • An Anti-Money Laundering Timeline and the Relentless Regulatory Response, Turner, S., Bainbridge, J. 1 Jun 2018, In: The Journal of Criminal Law
  • Balancing the Boardroom: Can Lessons be Learned?, Turner, S. 18 Jun 2015, 40th British International Studies Association Annual Conference
  • Capturing investor conscience: from conflict minerals to stateless children?, Brewer, M., Turner, S. May 2015, Northumbria Research Conference
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  • Law PGDip September 01 2000
  • Fellow (FHEA) Higher Education Academy (HEA) 2013

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