Skip to main content
Institute for Commercial and Corporate Law
Stacks of coins create shadows across a graph

Publications

This is a list of the publications by members of the Institute for Commercial and Corporate Law. Full publication lists can be obtained by visiting the appropriate staff web page. Open access copies of the publications are available via Durham Research Online. 

 

Authored books

  • Bevan, C. Land Law (Oxford University Press, 4th, 2025).
  • Bennett, P. and H. van Meerten, EU Pensions Law: A Commentary and Practitioner’s Guide (Edward Elgar, 2024).
  • Wardhaugh, B. Competition Law in Crisis: The Antitrust Response to Economic Shocks (Cambridge University Press, 2022).
  • Wardhaugh, B. Competition, Effects and Predictability: Rule of Law and the Economic Approach to Competition (Hart, 2020).
  • Birds, J., Attenborough, D., Leiser, M., Solinas, M., Varney, M.R. & Zhang, Z. Boyle & Birds' Company Law (Sweet & Maxwell, 10th edn, 2019).
  • Liang, J. Party-Autonomy in Contractual Choice of Laws in China (Cambridge University Press, 2018).
  • Lupo-Pasini, F. The Logic of Financial Nationalism: The Problems of Cooperation and the Role of International Law (Cambridge University Press, 2017).
  • Adeyeye, A. O. Corporate Social Responsibility of Multinational Corporations in Developing Countries: Perspectives on Anti-Corruption (Cambridge University Press, 2012).

 

Chapters in books

  • Attenborough, D. ‘Greenhalgh v Arderne Cinemas [1951] Ch. 286: A Consequential Legal Proposition That Never Was’ in S. Wheeler and V. Barnes (eds.), Landmark Cases in Company Law (Hart, 2025).
  • Jacques, J. ‘Critical Theory’ in R. Nolan, L. Ho, M. Bennett, and A. Hofri-Winogradow (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Trusts Laws (Oxford University Press, 2025).
  • Martins-Pereira, C. ‘The Uncertain Path Towards Open Finance: Mutual Lessons from the United Kingdom and European Regulatory Approaches’ in A. Darbellay and J. Lee, A Research Agenda for Financial Law and Regulation (Edward Elgar, 2025).
  • Zu, Y. ‘China’s VAT in the Digitalized Economy’ in Y. Xu (ed.) VAT in the Digital Era: Unilateral and Multilateral Options for Reform (Oxford University Press, 2023).
  • McCann, D. ‘Informalisation in International Labour Regulation Policy: Profiles of an Unravelling’ in D. Ashiagbor (ed.), Re-imagining labour law for development (Hart, 2019) 77.

 

Edited books

  • Bevan, C. Research Handbook on Property, Law and Theory (Edward Elgar, 2025).
  • Briggs, M. and Hayward, A. Research Handbook on Family Property and the Law (Edward Elgar, 2024).

 

Journal articles

  • Bennett, P. ‘Leveraged LDI: Prudent Deficit Risk Management or Ultra Vires Speculation?’ (2024) 4 Trust Law International 167.
  • Irina Sakharova, ‘(Mis)Understanding Correlativity in Contractual Relations’ (2024) 37 Ratio Juris 48.
  • Irina Sakharova, ‘The Power to Contract and the Offer-and-Acceptance Analysis of Contract Formation’ (2024) 37 Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence 261.
  • Wang, J. ‘Reconstructing the copyright idea/expression dichotomy for video games’ (2024). 14(3) Queen Mary Journal of Intellectual Property 248. 
  • Wang, J., & Alpini, A. ‘Legal Nature of NFTed Artwork: A Comparative Study’ in N. Naim (ed.), Developments in Intellectual Property Strategy: The Impact of Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and New Technologies (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024). 
  • Adeyeye, A. ‘The pursuit of Corporate Accountability: Climate change litigation and the Use of Shareholder Derivative Actions’ (2024) 83(1) Cambridge Law Journal 30.
  • Adeyeye, A. ‘Certified B Corps: An examination of a Standard Based Approach to Stakeholder Governance’ (2024) 35(6) European Business Law Review 755.
  • Bevan, C. ‘A New Definition of ‘Treasure’ under the Treasure Act 1996: Watershed Reform or Missed Opportunity?’ (2024) 87(2) Modern Law Review 430.
  • Bevan, C. ‘Property Guardianship: re-visiting the lease/licence distinction and re-shaping the regulatory landscape of occupational rights in English Property Law’ (2023) 139 Law Quarterly Review 79.
  • Lupo-Pasini, F. ‘The Credit Suisse collapse and International financial law (2023) 17(4) Law and Financial Markets Review 298.
  • Martins-Pereira, C. ‘The Digital Tokenisation of Non-financial Assets: Challenges to English Private Law’ (2023) 7(2) Católica Law Review 9.
  • Zu, Y. ‘Statutory Interpretation after Brexit: Implications from a Case Study of VAT’ (2023) 43(2) Legal Studies 295.
  • Mukwiri, J. ‘Get Off My Land!’ (2023) 4 Conveyancer and Property Lawyer 318.
  • Mukwiri, J. ‘Negative Implications of Greater Access to the Courts in the Takeover Process’ (2023) 20(2) European Company and Financial Law Review 358.  
  • Varzaly, J. ‘Shareholder concentration and control in Australia’ (2023) 23(1) Journal of Corporate Law Studies 105.
  • Attenborough, D. ‘Corporate Disclosures on Climate Change: An Empirical Analysis of FTSE All-Share British Fossil Fuel Producers’ (2022) 23(2) European Business Organization Law Review 313.
  • Jacques, J. ‘E-money and Trusts: A Property Analysis’ (2022) 138 Law Quarterly Review 605.
  • Allan, G. ‘The phenomenon of locus classicus: an analysis of judicial reliance on classic judicial statements of equitable doctrine’ (2022) 1 The Conveyancer and Property Lawyer 87.
  • McCann, D. and Cruz-Santiago, A. ‘Labour/Data Justice: A New Framework for Labour/Regulatory Datafication’ (2022) 49(4) Journal of Law and Society 658.
  • Varzaly, J. ‘The effectiveness of disclosure law enforcement in Australia’ (2021) 21(1) Journal of Corporate Law Studies 135.
  • Attenborough, D. ‘Misreading the Directors’ Fiduciary Duty of Good Faith’ (2020) 21(1) Journal of Corporate Law Studies 73.
  • Riley, C. and Ruelas, P. ‘Board Gender Diversity in Mexico: An Analysis and Proposal for Reform’ (2020) 7(1) Journal of International and Comparative Law 155.
  • Rooney, J. ‘Extraterritorial Corporate Liability for Environmental Harms: Okpabi v Royal Dutch Shell ‘(2019) 70(1) Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly 157.
  • Allan, G. ‘To pierce or not to pierce? A doctrinal reappraisal of judicial responses to improper exploitation of the corporate form’ (2018) 7 Journal of Business Law 559.
  • Riley, C. ‘Derivative Claims and Retification: Time to Ditch Some Baggage?’ (2013) 34(4) Legal Studies 582.