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Legal Rules Regarding Consideration
Enforcing any legal contract requires it to have an element of consideration included in it. In simple words, it is…
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Autonomous Vehicles, Software and Product Liability: Have the Law Commissions Missed an Opportunity?
Whether the Consumer Protection Act 1987 (CPA) applies to software is a topic of considerable uncertainty. Since the 1980s practitioners…
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A No-Deal Brexit? British Businesses May Get a Good Deal under a UK-China Free Trade Agreement
British businesses face a dilemma regarding Brexit. Leaving the European Union (EU), tariffs and duties will be imposed on British…
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Cheating Pays
Theories of private ordering tend implicitly to talk about opportunism as undifferentiated wrongs. But the reality is that cheating comes…
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The (W)hole Story: On the Origin of Gaps in Commercial Contracts
Through choice-of-forum provisions such as arbitration clauses or court selection clauses, contractual parties have the opportunity to determine where and…
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Share Classes in Investment Funds and Fair Treatment of All Investors
The market for open-end and closed-end ordinary or alternative funds—Undertakings for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities (UCITS) and Alternative Investment…
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Law and Finance in Britain c.1900
Over the past two decades, a series of influential papers in economics and finance have found institutions to be powerful…
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The Valuation and Governance Bubbles of Silicon Valley
The rise and fall of The We Company IPO bubble is one of those events that, like the subprime mortgage…
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Who Owns Bitcoin? Private (International) Law Facing the Blockchain
The widespread use of virtual currencies and other crypto assets may lead to problems that have been well-known for centuries…
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Globalization, Lawyers, and Emerging Economies: The Rise, Transformation, and Significance of the New Corporate Legal Ecosystem in India, Brazil, and China
Our forthcoming Article in the Harvard International Law Journal (Spring/Summer 2020) addresses an important but understudied topic of relevance to academics from…
