Business Law and Practice Research
The Centre for Business Law and Practice conducts research in a wide range of areas and employs various approaches including the following : doctrinal, theoretical (including socio-legal) and empirical research. Much of the research is international and transnational in focus.
Corporate Law
Our research covers most areas of corporate (company) law. We have particular interest in corporate governance (objective of public companies, directors' duties, shareholder remedies and litigation, governance and the legal profession, EU Corporate Governance, Comparative Corporate Governance, Law and Economics approach) and corporate insolvency (comparative approaches to Corporate Rescue, liquidation, administration, transactional avoidance, forum shopping and jurisdictional competition in the context of international insolvency proceedings).
Researchers: Andrew Keay, Gerry McCormack, Joan Loughrey, Michael Galanis
Banking and Finance Law
The focus in banking and finance law is on bank insolvencies, money laundering, analysis of secured credit regimes (including assessment of their efficacy in promoting economic development using law and economics and other models), and role of the UN Commission on International Trade Law and other supra-governmental and international finance organisations in promoting notions of globalised finance law.
Researchers: Andy Campbell, Gerry McCormack
Contract and Consumer Law
In contract and consumer law, we concentrate on consumer credit and overindebtedness, analysis of the law of guarantees from efficiency and redistributional perspectives, the role of EC institutions including the Commission and the Parliament in the harmonisation of European Private Law, and norms of consumer protection in the realm of financial contracting with consideration of national and European approaches.
Researchers: Roger Halson, Gerry McCormack, Sarah Brown, David Pearce
Research Projects
For full details of our current and recent projects, please see the research projects page.
More Information
If you have any questions regarding research carried out in the School of Law, please email Lindsey Hill.
Annual Reviews
Report 2010-11 (PDF, 414KB)
Report 2009-10 (PDF, 587KB)
Report 2008-09 (PDF, 355KB)
Review 2007-08 (PDF, 220KB)
Review 2006-07 (PDF, 305KB)
Review 2005-06 (PDF, 239KB)
Review 2004-05 (PDF, 337KB)
Review 2003-04 (PDF, 404KB)