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Misreading the Directors' Fiduciary Duty of Good Faith (2019)
Journal Article
Attenborough, D. (2020). Misreading the Directors' Fiduciary Duty of Good Faith. Journal of Corporate Law Studies, 21(1), 73-98. https://doi.org/10.1080/14735970.2019.1631516

The fiduciary duty of good faith, now set forth in section 172 of the Companies Act 2006, expressly positions shareholders at the centre of the company’s interests, and assigns the priority entitlement to shareholders relative to all other stakeholde... Read More about Misreading the Directors' Fiduciary Duty of Good Faith.

Boyle & Birds' Company Law (10th edn) (2019)
Book
Birds, J., Attenborough, D., Leiser, M., Solinas, M., Varney, M., & Zhang, Z. (in press). Boyle & Birds' Company Law (10th edn). (10th). Sweet and Maxwell

Artificial general intelligence and contract (2019)
Journal Article
Linarelli, J. (2019). Artificial general intelligence and contract. Uniform Law Review, 24(2), 330-347. https://doi.org/10.1093/ulr/unz015

The aim of this article is to inquire whether contract law can operate in a state of affairs in which artificial general intelligence (AGI) exists and has the cog-nitive abilities to interact with humans to exchange promises or otherwise en-gage in t... Read More about Artificial general intelligence and contract.

Can Global Constitutionalism be Feminist? (2019)
Book Chapter
O'Donoghue, A., & Houghton, R. (2019). Can Global Constitutionalism be Feminist?. In S. Harris Rimmer, & K. Ogg (Eds.), Research handbook on feminist engagement with international law (81-102). Edward Elgar Publishing

Equal Civil Partnerships, Discrimination and the Indulgence of Time: R (on the application of Steinfeld and Keidan) v Secretary of State for International Development (2019)
Journal Article
Hayward, A. (2019). Equal Civil Partnerships, Discrimination and the Indulgence of Time: R (on the application of Steinfeld and Keidan) v Secretary of State for International Development. Modern Law Review, 82(5), 922-935. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2230.12437

In R (on the application of Steinfeld and Keidan) v Secretary of State for International Development the Supreme Court unanimously declared that the ban on different‐sex civil partnerships was incompatible with Articles 8 and 14 of the European Conve... Read More about Equal Civil Partnerships, Discrimination and the Indulgence of Time: R (on the application of Steinfeld and Keidan) v Secretary of State for International Development.

Brexit and implications for the free movement of capital (2019)
Journal Article
Mukwiri, J. (2019). Brexit and implications for the free movement of capital. Legal issues of European integration, 46(1), 7-28

One misleading mantra in the Brexit debate is that the EU’s single market freedoms were inseparable. This article takes a micro-legal research approach in examining the question: to what extent would free movement of capital be available to the UK wh... Read More about Brexit and implications for the free movement of capital.

Equal Civil Partnerships and the Construction of the Cohabitant (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hayward, A. (2018, December). Equal Civil Partnerships and the Construction of the Cohabitant. Paper presented at Workshop on Frontier Research in Children's Rights and Family Law, University College Cork, Ireland

The Married Women's Property Act 1882 (2018)
Book Chapter
Hayward, A. (2018). The Married Women's Property Act 1882. In R. Auchmuty, & E. Rackley (Eds.), Women's Legal Landmarks: Celebrating 100 Years of Women and Law in the UK and Ireland (71-76). Hart Publishing

Twenty years of ‘Law and Finance’: time to take law seriously (2018)
Journal Article
Schnyder, G., Siems, M., & Aguilera, R. (2021). Twenty years of ‘Law and Finance’: time to take law seriously. Socio-Economic Review, 19(1), 377-406. https://doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwy041

This ‘state of the art’ essay provides a comprehensive discussion of the Law and Finance School (LFS) literature. We show that the first two decades of the LFS have focused on empirically investigating the question ‘does law matter?’ Yet, despite the... Read More about Twenty years of ‘Law and Finance’: time to take law seriously.

Debt in Just Societies: A General Framework for Regulating Credit (2018)
Journal Article
Linarelli, J. (2020). Debt in Just Societies: A General Framework for Regulating Credit. Regulation and Governance, 14(3), 409-427. https://doi.org/10.1111/rego.12219

Debt presents a dilemma to societies: successful societies benefit from a substantial infrastructure of consumer, commercial, corporate, and sovereign debt but debt can cause substantial private and social harm. Pre‐crisis and post‐crisis solutions h... Read More about Debt in Just Societies: A General Framework for Regulating Credit.

Protectionism and the EU market for corporate control: Is it possible to get the best of both worlds? (2018)
Journal Article
Mukwiri, J. (2018). Protectionism and the EU market for corporate control: Is it possible to get the best of both worlds?. European Company and Financial Law Review, 15(2), 308-338. https://doi.org/10.1515/ecfr-2018-0011

Recent reports of the Commission and the European Parliament have revisited the concerns of protectionism in the EU. This article discusses these concerns in light of the liberal and protectionist divide in the EU market for corporate control, focusi... Read More about Protectionism and the EU market for corporate control: Is it possible to get the best of both worlds?.

Shareholder protection, stock markets and cross-border mergers (2018)
Journal Article
Ahiabor, F. S., James, G. A., Kwabi, F. O., & Siems, M. M. (2018). Shareholder protection, stock markets and cross-border mergers. Economics Letters, 171, 54-57. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2018.07.013

This paper is the first one that uses a panel data of different types of shareholder protection in order to examine (i) the effect of such laws on stock market development and (ii) the convergence of shareholder protection laws through cross-border m... Read More about Shareholder protection, stock markets and cross-border mergers.

From same-sex marriage to equal civil partnerships: on a path towards ‘perfecting’ equality? (2018)
Journal Article
Fenwick, H., & Hayward, A. (2018). From same-sex marriage to equal civil partnerships: on a path towards ‘perfecting’ equality?. Child and family law quarterly, 30(2), 97-120

This article will consider the progress made towards achieving equality between same- and different-sex couples seeking formalisation of their relationships. It will do so by examining the extent to which the introduction of civil partnerships and sa... Read More about From same-sex marriage to equal civil partnerships: on a path towards ‘perfecting’ equality?.