Centre for Commercial and Corporate Law
About us
The Centre for Commercial and Corporate Law is a platform for world-class research in all areas of commercial and corporate Law. Its members, many of whom are leaders in their fields, have a wide range of specialisms and are advisors to governments and other agencies worldwide.
Members also deliver the LLM in Commercial Law, a programme which offers unrivalled opportunities to study across a range of modules taught by leading academics.
Our wide range of specialisms includes:
- banking law
- corporate governance and social responsibility
- energy law
- insolvency law
- consumer protection
- contract law
- insurance and reinsurance law
- international arbitration
- finance and credit law
- international trade
- maritime law
- business structures
- investment law
- financial markets law and regulation
- competition law
- mergers & acquisitions
- intellectual property law
The Centre fuses the experience of academic lawyers and practising lawyers, and the impact of their work is far-reaching. For example, in addition to being frequently cited in the courts, members of the Centre have advised:
- Committees of the European Parliament
- the House of Commons
- the National Assembly for Wales
- the Northern Irish Government
- the Law Commission
- the Irish Environmental Protection Agency
- the UNEP
- the UNDP
- the Secretariat for the Bonn Convention
- the Australian Attorney-General’s Department
Our members
The Centre fuses the experience of academic lawyers and practising lawyers, and the impact of their work is far-reaching.
Co-Directors
Members
- Professor Clair Gammage
- Dr Matthew Channon
- Dr Matthew Cole
- Dr Mihail Danov
- Dr Swati Gola
- Dr Malcolm Rogge
- Dr Isabelle Rueda
- Dr Monica Vessio
Student members will appear here when the new academic year starts
News
Presentation of a paper by Glory Nwaugbala, a DPhil candidate at the University of Oxford, whose research is on labour disputes and Sino-African relations.
The paper was titled Corporate Social Responsibility and Decent Work in China: the Influence of EU and International Norms.
First guest speaker of the academic year: Dr. Jie(Jeanne) Huang, Associate Professor, University of Sydney Law School
Dr. Jie's work focuses on conflicts of law. In our first event of the academic year she presented a paper on 'The 1965 Convention on the Service Abroad of Judicial and Extrajudicial Documents in Civil or Commercial Matters'.
Dr Dodsworth (with Dr Bisping from Warwick University) react to the FCA's recent proposal for the loyalty penalty
Dr Severine Saintier co-edits new book entitled Vulnerable Consumers and the Law
Market competition sets tone for lower cost of UK mobile phone contracts, research shows
Dr Joseph Lee convened an international workshop on AI in financial services
Smart contracts and LegalTech- the future?
Proposed energy measures harmful to vulnerable consumers
Future Challenges for Autonomous Vehicle Event
Exeter and Tsinghua Host Joint Seminar on Takeover Law
Existence of ‘good faith’ obligations in English contract law to be debated by experts
ESRC seminar on blockchain and capital markets
Luke Price Publishes Articles in Jurisprudence and Legal Studies
Exeter Law Academic Staff Awarded Grant by the Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC)
Events
BTI v Sequana and The Creditor Duty in the European Union
Wednesday 5 June 12:00 - 13:00 GMT
Event details on this link
Online
Join us for a talk by Philip Gavin, Assistant Lecturer in the School of Law in TU Dublin, assisting in the delivery of Law of Torts and Contract. His research focuses on the comparative autonomy of corporate directors and how the interests of the company are understood.
| When | Description | Location | Add to your calendar |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 November 2024 | The Unaoil case: Justice in Action or State Sponsored Perverting? | Newman Collaborative Lecture Theatre (C/D) | Add event |
| 18 November 2024 | EGENIS seminar: "From welfare to tenant state? State-tech relations in an age of AI" Prof Lina Dencik (Goldsmiths, University of London) | Hybrid | Add event |
Studying
Members of the Centre are involved in supervising postgraduate research students in all areas of commercial and corporate law.
For more details, including funding options, please see our postgraduate research programmes.
Our members also deliver the LLM in Commercial Law, a programme which offers unrivalled opportunities to study across a range of modules taught by leading academics in their field.
Non-media
For non-media enquiries relating to the Centre and its work please contact Mariela De Amstalden.
Post
Centre for Commercial and Corporate Law
Law School - Amory Building
University of Exeter
Rennes Drive
Exeter
Devon
UK
EX4 4RJ
Media
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Telephone: +44 (0)1392 722307
Email: pressoffice@exeter.ac.uk