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International Business Law Research Group members author important and cutting-edge scholarship on international business law. Several of these publications have had impact outside academia and have been mentioned by external organisations.

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2021 - forthcoming

• Ezechukwu N, ‘Regulating Innovation for Financial Inclusion: Lessons from Nigeria’ (2021) Journal of African Law
• Ghio E, ‘Transposing the Directive on Preventive Restructuring: A French Perspective’ (2021) 30 International Insolvency Review
• Gompertz K, ‘Arguing for a Different Conclusion: was Midland Bank Ltd. V Green (No1) incorrectly decided?’ (2021) Coventry Law Journal
• Gompertz K, ‘UK Company Law Through a Quaker prism: Parke v The Daily News Revisited’ (2021) Coventry Law Journal

2020

• Ezechukwu N, ‘Providing Meaningful Protection for Mobile Payment Consumers: What Tools are Fit for Purpose’ (2020) Journal of Business Law
• Ezechukwu N, ‘Consumer-generated Reviews: Time for Closer Scrutiny?’ (2020) 40 Legal Studies
• Ezechukwu N and Ojogbo S, ‘Shareholder Protection a Necessity for Corporate Finance: A Comparative Review of legal/regulatory protection for corporate shareholders in the UK and Nigeria’ (2020) 64 Journal of African Law
• Ghio E and Perlingeiro R (eds.), ‘Theory and Practice of General Principles of International Legal Cooperation: A Thematic and Comparative Approach’ (2020) 23 Revista Juris Poiesis Ìý
• Ghio E, ‘International Legal Cooperation and the Principle of Harmonisation: Lessons from Cross-Border Insolvency’ (2020) 23 Revista Juris Poiesis
• Ghio E et al., ‘The Limits and Logic of the EU Harmonisation Process in the Wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic’ (2020) Eurofenix (Summer)

2019

• Ghio E, ‘Executory Contracts in Insolvency Law in France’ in Chuah J and Vaccari E (eds.), Executory Contracts in Insolvency Law (Edward Elgar, 2019)
• Ghio E et al., ‘An EU Preventive Restructuring Framework: a Hole in One?’ (2019) 28 International Insolvency Review
• Mason L, ‘The Four Sides of Equity’ in Vermeir K and Heiremans R (eds.), A Modest Proposal (Jubilee, 2019)
• Mason L, ‘Idealism, Empiricism, Pluralism, Law: Legal Truth After Modernity’ in Condello A and Andina T (eds.), Post-Truth, Law and Philosophy (Routledge, 2019)
• Mason L and Condello A, ‘Make it new! The redeeming Modernism of law and the collapsing of its polarities’ (2019) 13 Polemos
• Ulgen O, ‘Technological innovations and the changing character of warfare: the significance of the 1949 Geneva Convention Seventy Years On’ (2019) 2 Journal of International Law of Peace and Armed Conflicts

Events

2023

Speaker: Lauren Watson, Chair of the UK Legal Tech Association & Dr Alan Ma, Lecturer in Law at ̽»¨Ö±²¥

Title: Legal Tech – Forging New Avenues in Legal Practice (Spotlight on Graduate Opportunities)

Seminar: 1 November 2023, STEAMhouse, ̽»¨Ö±²¥

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Speaker: Dr Laura Rodes-Sandana

Title: 'Rethinking Company Law Towards a Sustainable Economy’

Research seminar:ÌýTuesday 19 September 2023, ̽»¨Ö±²¥

2022

Speakers: Suresh Birdi, ‘Algorithms and Collusion: Looking Beyond 2022’; Dr Alan Ma, ‘Technology in International Arbitration and Cross-Border Transactions’; Dr Emma Scali, ‘Sovereign Financing and Human Rights’

Title: ‘Contemporary Issues in International Business Law’

Research Seminar: 15 November 2022, ̽»¨Ö±²¥

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Speakers: Dr Alan Ma, ‘Legal Tech Adoption in Law Firms’; Damien Croker, ‘Legal Tech Lawyers and Climate’

Title: The West Midlands Branch of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, The ̽»¨Ö±²¥ Branch of the British Computer Society the Chartered Institute for IT (BCS), The Society for computers and Law (SCL), and the School of Law ̽»¨Ö±²¥, ‘Contemporary Issues That Affect the Future of Law’

Seminar: Tuesday 1 November 2022, STEAMhouse, ̽»¨Ö±²¥

Speakers: Sameer Shinh, Chair of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators’ West Midlands Branch; James Ng, MFG Solicitors, Consultant; Dr Alan Ma, Lecturer in Law at ̽»¨Ö±²¥

Title: International Business Law Research Group, West Midlands Branch of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and the School of Law ̽»¨Ö±²¥, ‘International Arbitration and Dispute Resolution - The Future’.

Seminar: Tuesday 8 March 2022

2020:

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2019:

• Launch of the Commercial Law Research Network Nigeria