Biography

Renginee is a Lecturer in Law at the School of Law. Her research and teaching focus on company law, corporate governance and corporate social responsibility.
Before joining Surrey in 2009, she taught at the University of Kent, the University of Buckingham and the University of Mauritius. She is also a Visiting Professor in Company Law at Paris Descartes (Paris V), France. 

Research Interests

Research Interests

• Company Law
• Corporate Social Responsibility and Law 
• Corporate Governance and Theory
• Law and Development
• Neoliberalism

PhD Supervision

Renginee is happy to supervise research projects on all of the above, and welcomes approaches for supervision from prospective PhD students. 

Publications

Articles in peer-reviewed journals

Pillay, R.G. , 'Legislating Corporate Philanthropy: The New Corporate Accountability' (forthcoming) Contemporary Issues in Law Journal, Vol. 12, Issue 1. 

Pillay, R.G., and Lund-Thomsen, P., 'CSR in Industrial Clusters: An overview of the literature' (2012) Corporate Governance (Emerald Publishing), Vol. 12, Number 4.

Book Chapters

Pillay, R.G. , and Ireland, P., 'Corporate Social Responsibility in a Neoliberal Age' in P. Utting and J.C.Marques (eds) Corporate Social Responsibility and Regulatory Governance - Towards Inclusive Development? (UNRISD and Palgrave Macmillan, 2010)

Teaching

Academic Year 2012-2013

Undergraduate:

• Tort Law II (Level 2)
• Advanced Company Law (Level 3, Convenor) 

Postgraduate:

• Corporate Governance (LLM, Convenor)
• Corporate Social Responsibility (LLM, Convenor)
• Research and Writing Skills (LLM, Convenor)

Departmental Duties

• Overseas Recruitment Tutor
• Member of the External Relations Committee
• Surrey International Study Centre Link Tutor
• Programme Director for the LLB Combined Honours Programmes (2010-2012)

Affiliations

Member of the Society of Legal Scholars 

Conference Presentations

EABIS 10th Annual Colloquium Colloquium 2011 on ‘A new era of development: the changing role & responsibilities of business in developing countries’, 26-28 October, INSEAD Europe campus, Fontainebleau, France.
Paper presented: ‘Legislating Corporate Philanthropy: CSR and Development in Mauritius’.

10th International Conference on Corporate Social Responsibility by the Center for Spiritual Capital of Loyola's College of Business and the Social Responsibility Research Network, Loyola University New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana, May 18 – 20, 2011.
Paper presented: 'Legislating Corporate Philanthropy: The Case of Mauritius’.

8th International Conference on Corporate Social Responsibility organised by the
University of South Africa (UNISA) Social Responsibility Research Network, Cape Town, UNISA, South Africa, 8-10 September 2009.
Paper presented and published in the peer-reviewed conference proceedings: ‘Corporate Social Responsibility as a developmental tool and NGO ‘Social Sponsoring’: The case of Mauritius’.

Centre on Law, Gender and Sexuality Conference on ‘Gender and Regulation: A Local/Global Conversation’, University of Kent, Canterbury, 13-14 June 2008.
Thinkpiece prepared: ‘Development and the Limits to Self-Regulation and Voluntarism: From Corporate Social Responsibility to Corporate Accountability’.

United Nations Research Institute for Social Development Conference on ‘Business, Social Policy and Corporate Political Influence in Developing Countries’, Palais des Nations, Geneva, 12-13 November 2007.
Paper presented: ‘Corporate Social Responsibility in a Neo-Liberal Age’, co-authored with Prof. P. Ireland.

7th International Academy of African Business and Development Annual Conference on ‘African Development: What Role for Business?’, Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration, Accra, Ghana, 23-27 May 2006.                                                        
Paper presented and published in the peer-reviewed conference proceedings: ‘Corporate Social Responsibility and Development: The Mauritian Experience’.

International Conference on Corporate Social Responsibility organised by the Mohan Lal Sukhadia University, India and the London Metropolitan University, UK, Udaipur, India, 21-23 February 2005.
Paper presented: ‘The De-radicalisation of Corporate Social Responsibility’.