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The Purposes of Land Settlement in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, 1898-1914: Drawing Paths through the Weeds (2017)
Journal Article
Allen, T. (2017). The Purposes of Land Settlement in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, 1898-1914: Drawing Paths through the Weeds. The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 45(6), 894-922. https://doi.org/10.1080/03086534.2017.1395585

This article examines the programme of land surveying and registration that was undertaken by the British-led administration of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan in the period 1898–1914. The Legal Secretary, Edgar Bonham Carter, stated that programme was the... Read More about The Purposes of Land Settlement in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, 1898-1914: Drawing Paths through the Weeds.

Judicial Review and Monopoly Power: Some Sceptical Thoughts (2017)
Journal Article
Williams, A. (2017). Judicial Review and Monopoly Power: Some Sceptical Thoughts. Law Quarterly Review, 133(Oct), 656-682

Responds to the article by Colin D. Campbell entitled "Monopoly power as public power for the purposes of judicial review", L.Q.R. 2009, 125(Jul), 491-521, by questioning the practicability of its monopoly power test for determining if the exercise o... Read More about Judicial Review and Monopoly Power: Some Sceptical Thoughts.

Directors’ and Officers’ Insurance in the UK (2017)
Journal Article
Mukwiri, J. (2017). Directors’ and Officers’ Insurance in the UK. European Business Law Review, 28(4), 547-573

This paper examines the significance of the directors’ and officers’ (D&O) insurance policies in the UK. It argues that the significance of D&O policies lies in D&O policies being commercial than legal tools for directors. When third parties sue a di... Read More about Directors’ and Officers’ Insurance in the UK.

Bridging the Gap: A Status Report on Company Law in the CARICOM Region with Recommendations for Reform (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ashby, L. (2017, July). Bridging the Gap: A Status Report on Company Law in the CARICOM Region with Recommendations for Reform. Paper presented at Company Law Reform Seminar, Cave Hill, Barbados

Lana Ashby (Key Note Speaker) The IMPACT Justice Project hosted a Company Law Reform Seminar on Tuesday, July 4th, 2017 in the Shell Suite of the Solution Centre, The University of the West Indies (UWI), Cave Hill Campus. The seminar, which was atten... Read More about Bridging the Gap: A Status Report on Company Law in the CARICOM Region with Recommendations for Reform.

Cross-border reincorporations in the European Union: the case for comprehensive harmonisation (2017)
Journal Article
Gerner-Beuerle, C., Mucciarelli, F. M., Schuster, E., & Siems, M. (2018). Cross-border reincorporations in the European Union: the case for comprehensive harmonisation. Journal of Corporate Law Studies, 18(1), 1-42. https://doi.org/10.1080/14735970.2017.1349428

Despite recent decisions of the Court of Justice that liberalise inbound and outbound reincorporations, several Member States still prohibit these transactions or make them impossible or impractical. Even where reincorporations are available in princ... Read More about Cross-border reincorporations in the European Union: the case for comprehensive harmonisation.

Proportionality (2017)
Book Chapter
Baker, A. (2017). Proportionality. In H. Fenwick (Ed.), Supperstone, Goudie & Walker : judicial review. Sixth edition. (6th ed.). LexisNexis

Justifiable Discrimination - The Case of Opposite-Sex Civil Partnerships (2017)
Journal Article
Hayward, A. (2017). Justifiable Discrimination - The Case of Opposite-Sex Civil Partnerships. Cambridge Law Journal, 76(2), 243-246. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0008197317000502

OPPOSITE-SEX couples are prohibited from forming a civil partnership. Following the introduction of same-sex marriage, the Civil Partnership Act 2004 was not extended to opposite-sex couples, resulting in the unusual position that English law permits... Read More about Justifiable Discrimination - The Case of Opposite-Sex Civil Partnerships.

The G20/OECD Principles of Corporate Governance 2015: A Critical Assessment of their Operation and Impact (2017)
Journal Article
Siems, M., & Alvarez-Macotela, O. (2017). The G20/OECD Principles of Corporate Governance 2015: A Critical Assessment of their Operation and Impact. Journal of Business Law, 2017(4), 310-328

The OECD promotes the 2015 version of the Principles of Corporate Governance as a means "to support investment as a powerful driver of growth". But how realistic is this ambition? This article provides a critical assessment of the operation and impac... Read More about The G20/OECD Principles of Corporate Governance 2015: A Critical Assessment of their Operation and Impact.

A Path Already Travelled in Domestic Orders? From Fragmentation to Constitutionalisation in the Global Legal Order (2017)
Journal Article
O’Donoghue, A., & Murray, C. (2017). A Path Already Travelled in Domestic Orders? From Fragmentation to Constitutionalisation in the Global Legal Order. International Journal of Law in Context, 13(3), 225-252. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1744552317000064

Theories of fragmentation and constitutionalisation have long been presented as antagonistic accounts of the global legal order. Fragmentation theorists posit a non-hierarchical order explained in terms of the relationships between general and specia... Read More about A Path Already Travelled in Domestic Orders? From Fragmentation to Constitutionalisation in the Global Legal Order.

Why Do We Do What We Do? Comparing Legal Methods in Five Law Schools through Survey Evidence (2017)
Book Chapter
Siems, M., & Mac Sithigh, D. (2017). Why Do We Do What We Do? Comparing Legal Methods in Five Law Schools through Survey Evidence. In R. van Gestel, H. Micklitz, & E. L. Rubin (Eds.), Rethinking legal scholarship: a transatlantic interchange (31-83). Cambridge University Press

For the purpose of this paper we conducted an empirical survey of academic staff at two German law schools (Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf; Bucerius Law School), two UK ones (University of East Anglia; University of Edinburgh) and one Irish one... Read More about Why Do We Do What We Do? Comparing Legal Methods in Five Law Schools through Survey Evidence.

Law, Trust and Institutional Change in China: Evidence from Qualitative Fieldwork (2017)
Journal Article
Chen, D., Deakin, S., Siems, M., & Wang, B. (2017). Law, Trust and Institutional Change in China: Evidence from Qualitative Fieldwork. Journal of Corporate Law Studies, 17(2), 257-290. https://doi.org/10.1080/14735970.2016.1270252

China’s rapid growth in the absence of autonomous legal institutions of the kind found in the west appears to pose a problem for theories which stress the importance of law for economic development. In this article we draw on interviews with lawyers,... Read More about Law, Trust and Institutional Change in China: Evidence from Qualitative Fieldwork.

SMEs and access to finance: A vulnerability perspective (2017)
Book Chapter
Akseli, N. (2017). SMEs and access to finance: A vulnerability perspective. In A. Aldohni (Ed.), Law and finance after the financial crisis : the untold stories of the UK financial market (116-134). Routledge

Policy Paper: The Common Travel Area: Prospects After Brexit (2017)
Preprint / Working Paper
O'Donoghue, A., Murray, C., Warwick, B., & de Mars, S. Policy Paper: The Common Travel Area: Prospects After Brexit

Maintaining the Common Travel Area that has existed between the UK, Ireland, the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man has been set down by the UK Prime Minister as one of her government’s 12 key negotiating objectives. In this note, some of the funct... Read More about Policy Paper: The Common Travel Area: Prospects After Brexit.