Seeing everything from the perspective of Somerset (1772) has obscured the vibrant debate within the English judicial system over the legality of slavery in England and its empire over more than a century. Not only was the Common Law on slavery changing profoundly during the seventeenth century;...

In the spring of 1685, Morgan Godwyn, a minister who had served in Virginia and Barbados for more than 15 years, disappeared after publishing a book condemning the slave trade, and in 1687, he died. This paper is an attempt both to explain the mystery surrounding his death by providing a context...

Since the EU passed the PSD II, countries across the world have or are contemplating a new framework to govern data sharing among different players in financial markets—a trend called ‘Open Banking’ that requires or encourages banks to share consumer-permissioned banking data with third...

For a number of years there has been nothing at all unusual about the United Kingdom finding itself in a state of constitutional upheaval; indeed, for some time, this has been the UK constitution’s default setting. This has sometimes been as a result of long-anticipated and carefully planned...

At the end of 2018, the European Parliament and Council adopted Directive (EU) 2019/1, often referred to as the 'ECN+ Directive', which, among other things, contains provisions ensuring the independence of the competition authorities of the EU Member States (national competition authorities or...

Purpose – This paper aims to conduct an empirical analysis of subnational laws of the USA that require public pension funds to divest from companies that are in business with Cuba, Iran, Syria, and Sudan and explores whether public fund officials may be in violation of their fiduciary duty...

The law-and-economics movement has made a huge impact on the scholarship of contract law in the US. But compared to their US counterparts, English legal scholars are less enthusiastic about adopting the economic approach in their research. Existing studies have rarely, from an economic...

The following article was first published by Thomson Reuters (Professional) UK Limited in Vol. 31, Issue 1 of the Journal of International Banking Law & Regulation and remains topical in 2019 and beyond. For over 14 years, the United Kingdom had a single rulebook for financial services that...

The process of harmonisation of copyright law in the European Union has been underway for more than twenty years. Substantial progress has been made, but some fundamental issues - moral rights, authorship and ownership, copyright contracts, levies for private copying, secondary liability and...

The contributions of Foster (2005) and Halgreen (2004) are the latest in a series of debates, discussions, conferences, and academic scholarship on the subject of United States (US) and (or versus) European Union (EU) sport policy. In the context of international relations and foreign policy,...