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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,…

Types of Contracts – Indian Contract Act, 1872

Important Definitions and Terms in Indian Contract Act 1872

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…

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…

Cheating Pays

Theories of private ordering tend implicitly to talk about opportunism as undifferentiated wrongs. But the reality is that…

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…

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…

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…

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…