Research outputs

The Manchester Centre for Law and Business research outputs.

2020 publications

Bavoso, V., Hail the New Private Debt Machine: Private Equity, Leveraged Loans, and Collateralised Loan Obligations, 1 Aug 2020, In: Law and Financial Markets Review. p. 1 11 p.
Bavoso, V., Regulating complex financial products post-crisis: between the STS regulation and ESMA product intervention powers, 2020, Regulation and the global financial crisis: impact, regulatory responses, and beyond. Cash, D. and Goddard, R. (eds.). Routledge, 15 p. DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3537505.
Booton D., The construction of patent claims, Legal Studies, August 2020.
Galanis, M., Corporate Law versus Social Autonomy: Law as Social Hazard, 26 May 2020, In: Law and Critique. 32 p. DOI: 10.1007/s10978-020-09267-7.
Hammer R., Harpwood V. and Mellor S, Routledge Modern Tort Law, Routledge 2020.
Howells, G. “Consumer Protection Values in the Fourth Industrial Revolution” 43 Journal of Consumer Policy 145–175.
Howells G D. Fairgrieve, P. Feldschreiber and M.Pilgerstorfer “Products in a Pandemic: Liability for Medical Products and against COVID-19” (2020) 11 European Journal of Risk Regulation 565-603.
Howells G as part of “COVID-19- Consumer Law Research Group, "Consumer Law and Policy Relating to Change of Circumstances Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic (2020) 43(3) J Consum Policy (forthcoming).” Published online.
Wardhaugh, B., Competition, Effects and Predictability: Rule of Law and the Economic Approach to Competition, 16 Apr 2020, (Accepted/In press) Hart Publishing. 260 p. (Hart Studies in Competition Law).
Wardhaugh B. “Cartels and Collusion” (2020) in Jürgen G. Backhaus (ed.) Encyclopedia of Law and Economics, (Springer; Second Edition, 2020).

Past publications

2019 publications

V. Bavoso (2019) “The Promise and Perils of Alternative Market-Based Finance: The Case of P2P Lending in the UK”, Journal of Banking Regulation, November (12,600 words).
V. Bavoso (2019) “Foundation and Financing (UK)”, in Company Laws of the European Union, edited by A. Vicari; Beck, Hart, Nomos (19,169 words).
Galanis, M., Growth and the Lost Legitimacy of Business Organisation: Time to Abandon Corporate Law Reform, 2019, In: Journal of Corporate Law Studies. 35 p. (DOI: 10.1080/14735970.2019.1679418).
Lovdahl Gormsen, L., European State Aid and Tax rulings, 1 Jan 2019, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd. 168 p.
Han Yong, When West Meets East: thinking big in Singapore over good faith in commercial contract law, [2019] Journal of Commonwealth Law 101-142.
Howells, G. and Wilhelmsson T eds Consumer Protection Law (Edward Elgar).
Howells, G “Protecting the Values of Consumer Law in the Digital Economy: The Case of 3D-Printing” in Digital Revolution – New Challenges for the Law (Beck, Nomos,) 214-243 (with C. Twigg-Flesner and C. Willett).
Howells, G., 2019 “Promoting Excellence in Teaching and Research” in Strategic Leadership of Change in Higher Education (2nd ed.) S. Marshall ed. (Routledge, 2019) 69-79.
Howells, G. Reforming Consumer Protection in Hong Kong: How to Adequately Protect Consumers?” (2019) 49 Hong Kong Law Journal 571-602.
Odell-West, A., Invention and the Human Embryo, 3 Sep 2019, (Accepted/In press) In: Intellectual Property Quarterly.

2018 publications

V. Bavoso (2018) “Market-Based Finance, Debt and Systemic Risk: A Critique of the Capital Markets Union”, Accounting Economics and Law, Convivium, October (p.1-26, 20,105 words).
V. Bavoso (2018) “The Corporate Law Dilemma and the Enlightened Sovereign Control Paradigm: In Search of a New Legal Framework”, Brooklyn Journal of Corporate, Financial and Commercial Law, Vol.12 N.2, 241-278, (17,641 words).
Cunningham, Alan and James, Andrew D. and Taylor, Paul and Tether, Bruce, Disruptive Technologies & Legal Service Provision in the UK: A Preliminary Study (December 7, 2018). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3297074 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3297074.
Tomlinson, J. and Lovdahl Gormsen, L., Stumbling Towards the UK's new Administrative Settlement: A Study of Competition Law and Enforcement After Brexit, The Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies. 19 p.
Howells G., Twigg-Flesner, C. Micklitz H and Chen Lei Comparative Consumer Sales Law (Routledge).
Howells G and Twigg-Flesner C “Comparative Consumer Sales Law- Introduction” in Comparative Consumer Sales Law.
Howells G. and Chen Lei “Consumer Sales Law in Hong Kong” Comparative Consumer Sales Law, G. Howells et al eds, (Routledge) 69-81 (with Chen Lei).
Howells G. and Durovic M “The Rise of EU Consumer Law between Common Law and Civil Law Legal Traditions” in Uniform Rules for European Contract Law? F. de Elizalde (ed) (Hart) 117-135.
Howells G., “The European Union’s influence on English consumer contract law” George Washington University Law Review (2018) 85 George Washington Law Review 1904-1951.
Howells G, “Product Liability – When Doing Your Best Should not be Enough because Consumer Expectations Should be Taken Seriously” [2018] Juridiska Föreningen I Finland 10-22.
Mcgee, A., Limitation Periods, 1 Jun 2018, 8th ed. London: Sweet & Maxwell. 531 p.
Mcgee, A., The Modern Law of Insurance, 1 Dec 2018, 4 ed. London: LexisNexis Butterworths. 774 p.
Han Yong, Pre-contractual duties in the UK insurance law after 2015: old (or new?) wine in new bottles?, in Y Han and G Pynt eds, Carter v Boehm and pre-contractual Duties in Insurance Law: a global perspective after 250 years (Hart Publishing 2018) 143-169.
Wardhaugh B. “Competition Law and the Internet” in Paul Lambert (ed.) Gringras, The Laws of the Internet (Bloomsbury, 2018) pp 517 – 561.

2017 publications

V. Bavoso (2017) “Capital Markets, Debt Finance and the EU Capital Markets Union: A Law and Finance Critique”, CEPS WP Series, October, (20,145 words) https://www.ceps.eu/publications/capital-markets-debt-finance-and-eu-capital-markets-union-law-and-finance-critique;
F. Ngwu, V. Bavoso, and Z. Chen (2017) “Securitisation in BRICS: Issues, Challenges and Prospects”, Research in International Business and Finance, 42, 1219-1227 (8,894 words);
V. Bavoso (2017) “Filling the Accountability Gap in Structured Finance Transactions. The Case for a Broader Fiduciary Obligation”, Columbia Journal of European Law, Issue 2, Vol.23, 369-400, (16,627 words);
Booton D., Form in Intellectual Property Law, Edward Elgar, 2017;
Carty, H., Spalding v Gamage (1915), 2017, Landmark Cases in Intellectual Property Law . Bellido, J. (ed.). Oxford: Hart Publishing , p. 181-204 23 p.
Lovdahl Gormsen, L. and Mifsud-Bonnici, C., Legitimate Expectation of Consistent Interpretation of EU State Aid Law: Recovery in State Aid Cases Involving Advanced Pricing Agreements on Tax, 24 Apr 2017, In : Journal of European Competition Law & Practice. 8, 6, p. 1-14 14 p. (DOI: 10.1093/jeclap/lpx028)
Han Yong, Good faith in insurance law: general and independent, not a duty but an interpretative principle, (2017) 28 Insurance Law Journal 95-108;
Howells G, Twigg-Flesner C. and Wilhelmsson T. “Rethinking EU Consumer Law (Routledge);
Howells G. and Straetmans, G., “The Interpretive Function of the CJEU and the Interrelationship of EU and National Levels of Consumer Protection in Perspectives on Federalism available at http://www.on-federalism.eu/index.php/essays/265-the-interpretive-function-of-the-cjeu-and-the-interrelationship-of-eu-and-national-levels-of-consumer-protection;
Howells G “Product Liability in Comparative Perspective” (2017) 14 Soochow Law Journal 163-182;
Howells G, C. Twigg-Flesner and C.Willett "Product Liability and Digital Products” in EU Internet Law Tatania Eleni-Synodinou (et al), (Springer) 183-195;
Wardhaugh, M., Punishing Parents for the Sins of their Child: Extending EU Competition Liability in Groups and to Sub-Contractors, Apr 2017, In : Journal of Antitrust Enforcement. 5, 1, p. 22-48 (DOI: 10.1093/jaenfo/jnw014).

2016 publications

V. Bavoso (2016) “High Quality Securitisation and Capital Markets Union – Is it Possible?”, Accounting Economics and Law, Convivium, August (p.1-26, 12,288 words);
V. Bavoso (2016) “Financial Innovation, Derivatives and the UK and US Interest Rate Swap Scandals: Drawing New Boundaries for the Regulation of Financial Innovation”, Global Policy, Vol.7 Issue 2, May 227-236 (8,500 words);
V. Bavoso (2016) “Shareholder Value, Emerging Economies and the Need to Reconcile the Corporate Objective with Sustainable and Inclusive Goals”, in Corporate Governance in Developing and Emerging Markets: Debates, Models and New Institutional Economics, edited by F. Ngwu, O. Osuji and F. Stephen, Routledge (p.225-241, 7,500 words);
A. Cunningham, Decentralisation, Distrust & Fear of the Body - The Worrying Rise of Crypto-Law, Journal of Law, Technology and Society, vol13, issue 3, 2016;
Tarawneh, J., A New Classification for Trade Mark Functions, 31 Dec 2016, In : Intellectual Property Quarterly.
Lovdahl Gormsen, L., EU State Aid Law and Transfer Pricing: A Critical Introduction to a New Saga, 22 Jul 2016, In : Journal of European Competition Law & Practice. 7, 6, p. 369-382 13 p. (DOI: 10.1093/jeclap/lpw040)
Han Yong, Policyholder’s Reasonable Expectations (Hart Publishing 2016);
Howells G,, “Product Liability along the Belt and Road” in International Perspective of the Belt and Road Initiative (Zheijang University Press, 2016) 123-137.
Howells G., “Product Liability along the Belt and Road” in Asean Product Liability and Consumer Product Safety Law L. Nottage and S. Thanitcul eds (Winyuchon, 2016) 55-66.
Howells G. and Willett C., “3D Printing: The Limits of Contract and Challenges for tort” in R. Schulze and D. Staudenmayer (eds) Digital Revolution: Challenges for Contact Law in Practice (Nomos, 2016) 67-88.
Howells G., “Consumer Credit and Behavioural Economics” in Verbraucherrecht und Verbraucherverhalten B. Heiderhoff and R. Schulze (eds) (Nomos, 2016) 61-81.
Howells G., “Reflections on Remedies for Lack of Conformity in Light of Proposal of the EU Commission on Supply of Digital Content and Online and Other Distance Sale Contracts” in European Contract Law and the Digital Single Market A. di Franceschi (ed) (Intersentia) 145-161.
Howells G., “Product Liability Directive” in European Product Liability P. Machnikowski (ed) (Intersentia) 17-108 with (with D. Fairgrieve, G. Stratemans, D. Verhoieven, P. Machnikowski,, A Janssen and R. Schulze).
Howells G., “Consumer Law Enforcement and Access to Justice in EU Consuemr and Contract Law 406-427 C. Twigg-Flesner (ed).
Tarawneh, J., A New Classification for Trade Mark Functions, 31 Dec 2016, In : Intellectual Property Quarterly.
Wardhaugh, B., Intel, Consequentialist Goals and the Certainty of Rules: The Same Old Song and Dance, My Friend, Apr 2016, In : Competition Law Review.
Wardhaugh, B., Buying Competition: Developing Competition Regimes Through a WTO-Compliant Generalised System of Preferences, 10 Jan 2016, In : Manchester Journal of International Economic Law. 13, p. 22-49.
Wardhaugh B. “Development, Property and International Investment: The Double-Edged Sword of Human Rights” in Ting Xu and Jean Allain (eds.) Property and Human Rights in a Global Context (Hart, 2016), pp 175–195.