National governments have been forced to use an extraordinary amount of public resources and techniques to contain the global financial crisis (“the crisis”). This Article analyzes the role of the U.K. Tripartite Authorities in dealing with the crisis - both the “ordinary” measures, such...

The duties that principals and agents owe each other are typically coterminous with the agency relationship itself. But sometimes temporal lines of clean demarcation do less work. The Chapter identifies situations in which an agent may owe duties-including fiduciary duties-to the principal prior...

Concerns about secured creditor capture of Chapter 11 are now part of the corporate bankruptcy reform conversation in the United States. So, for example, the American Bankruptcy Institute's Commission on Chapter 11, scheduled to report and make recommendations for the reform of United States...

This study addresses the implications of several scenarios of the UK withdrawing from the EU in relation to the EU Customs Union, the Internal Market law for Goods and Services, and on Consumer Protection law, identifying the main cross-cutting challenges that have to be addressed irrespective...

This paper consists in the “Lens of London” documentary which is created by Queen Mary students of Intellectual Property Law under the US jurisdiction. The focus of this paper are the issues such as: what is a performer, who owns the copyright of the work, credit and pre-existing work...

In 2010, Australia introduced the Australian Consumer Law by its Trade Practices Amendment (Australian Consumer Law) Act (No. 2). The standard of consumer protection in the provision of financial services is considered in relation to this new legislation and also the further Australian federal...

This paper provides an account of the emergent phenomenon of ‘bankruptcy tourism' - forum shopping by debtors for favourable personal insolvency law - within the EU and with particular reference to England and Wales. After outlining the structural features of the European legal framework that...

For forty years beginning in the late 1960s, the University of Michigan Law School conducted annual surveys of its alumni. The project included fifty successive graduating classes, with all but the most recent classes surveyed more than once. Over thirteen thousand alumni participated. Over the...

In the legislation of countries in the system of ″common law″, the commission contract is brought under regulation differently, depending on the principle that has been adopted, regarding the extent to which it is permitted the establishment of certain legal effects in the relationships...