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	text:  larger  smaller		John Vella Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation  John Vella is a Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation and a member of the Faculty of Law at the University of Oxford. John first studied law at the University of Malta, obtaining a BA and an LLD. He was admitted to the Maltese bar and practiced briefly. He then obtained an LLM and a PhD from the University of Cambridge. Following the completion of his PhD he joined the Faculty of Law at the University of Oxford as Norton Rose Career Development Fellow in Company Law where he taught Company Law, Corporate Finance Law, EC Law and Roman Law. He has been a Program Affiliate Scholar at New York University and has acted as a co-arbitrator in a tax dispute before the ICC International Court of Arbitration. His main research interests are in Corporate Taxation, Company Law and Corporate Finance Law, particularly avoidance and the impact of tax on corporate behaviour. All | Recent | Selected Publications    sorted by selection | sort by year J Vella, 'Departing from the legal substance of transactions in the corporate field: the Ramsay Approach beyond the tax sphere' (2007) 7(2) Journal of Corporate Law Studies 243-283 Correspondence address: Said Business School, Park End Street Oxford OX1 1HP Link to Said Business School Link to University email/phone directory in new window