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Contractual prohibitions on assignment of receivables: an English and UN perspective (2009)
Journal Article
Akseli, O. (online). Contractual prohibitions on assignment of receivables: an English and UN perspective. Journal of Business Law, 650-678

Purpose - To assess the compatibility of the UN Convention's provisions on the validity of anti-assignment clauses with English contract law. Design/methodology/approach - A review of the literature of the assignment of receivables is presented. Anal... Read More about Contractual prohibitions on assignment of receivables: an English and UN perspective.

Neutrality and Multilateralism after the First World War (2009)
Journal Article
O'Donoghue, A. (2010). Neutrality and Multilateralism after the First World War. Journal of Conflict & Security Law, 15(1), 169-202. https://doi.org/10.1093/jcsl/krp029

Neutrality went through a period of convulsion after the First World War. During the inter-war years a number of commentators argued that the League of Nations and the Kellogg–Briand Pact combined had fundamentally changed the law of the use of force... Read More about Neutrality and Multilateralism after the First World War.

Protection from Unfair Suretyships in Ireland (2009)
Book Chapter
O'Donoghue, A., & O'Callaghan, P. (2009). Protection from Unfair Suretyships in Ireland. In A. Colombi Ciacchi, & S. Weatherill (Eds.), Regulating unfair banking practices in Europe :the case of personal suretyships (339-352). Oxford University Press

Regulatory Competition in Partnership Law (2009)
Journal Article
Siems, M. (2009). Regulatory Competition in Partnership Law. International and Comparative Law Quarterly, 58(4), 767-802. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0020589309001390

Regulatory competition in company law has been extensively debated in the last few decades, but it has rarely been discussed whether there could also be regulatory competition in partnership law. This article fills this gap. It addresses the partners... Read More about Regulatory Competition in Partnership Law.

How Do Legal Rules Evolve? Evidence from a Cross-Country Comparison of Shareholder, Creditor and Worker Protection (2009)
Journal Article
Armour, J., Deakin, S., Lele, P., & Siems, M. (2009). How Do Legal Rules Evolve? Evidence from a Cross-Country Comparison of Shareholder, Creditor and Worker Protection. The American Journal of Comparative Law, 57(3), 579-629. https://doi.org/10.5131/ajcl.2008.0017

Much attention has been devoted in recent literature to the claim that a country's "legal origin" may make a difference to its pattern of financial development and more generally to its economic growth path. Proponents of this view assert that the "f... Read More about How Do Legal Rules Evolve? Evidence from a Cross-Country Comparison of Shareholder, Creditor and Worker Protection.

Shareholder Protection and Stock Market Development: An Empirical Test of the Legal Origins Hypothesis (2009)
Journal Article
Armour, J., Deakin, S., Sarkar, P., Siems, M., & Singh, A. (2009). Shareholder Protection and Stock Market Development: An Empirical Test of the Legal Origins Hypothesis. Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, 6(2), 343-380. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1740-1461.2009.01146.x

Using a panel data set covering a range of developed and developing countries, we show that common-law systems were more protective of shareholder interests than civil-law ones in the period 1995–2005. However, civilian systems were catching up, sugg... Read More about Shareholder Protection and Stock Market Development: An Empirical Test of the Legal Origins Hypothesis.

Takeovers and the European Legal Framework: A British Perspective (2009)
Book
Mukwiri, J. (2009). Takeovers and the European Legal Framework: A British Perspective. Routledge-Cavendish

Since the implementation of the European Directive on Takeover Bids, a European common legal framework governs regulation of takeovers in EU Members States. The European Directive on Takeover Bids was adopted in April 2004, and implemented in the UK... Read More about Takeovers and the European Legal Framework: A British Perspective.