The role of ‘public’ corporations, i.e., corporations listed on stock exchanges and held by a broad range of individual and institutions shareholders, as promoters of the interest of stakeholders has been debated intensively in recent years. Of late, the focus of the debate has been...

From its early days, the sharing economy was celebrated in utopian terms, as a platform for creating and sharing wealth across social divides. Sharing, it is often argued, facilitates improved wealth redistribution and a decentralized, equitable and sustainable economy, by providing a...

Taxation and welfare policies are among the most potent instruments available to any state to influence the living standards of a country and its people. In 2021, the Irish government established a Commission on Taxation and Welfare to conduct an overall appraisal of the suitability and...

One of the most important developments underlying capital markets in recent years is the increase in the influence of activist minority shareholders. In a company without a controlling shareholder, dominant and active shareholders, who hold a low proportion of the company's shares, can...

This is the first empirical chapter in A Precarious Life (OUP 2023)—a long-term ‘ethnography at home’, providing an internal view of crime and conflict among one of the most socio-economically disadvantaged communities in Britain. Instead of explaining violence by theorising from the...

This article is part of a wider project funded by the Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship and a forthcoming CUP monograph on Intellectual Property and the Human Rights of Companies in Europe. The project and book seek to retrace the genesis and rationale for the extension of human rights...

Investigations of proportionality’s role in contemporary public law are complicated by the way the topic straddles so many binaries familiar within the discipline of comparative law. These include those of substance and form, discourse and practice, ‘function’ and ‘culture’, and –...

In the mid-1960s, the so-called ‘Hart-Devlin debate’ was generally regarded by criminal law theorists as having resulted in an unambiguous victory for Hart. Yet in a special issue of Criminal Law and Philosophy in 2013, marking the 50th anniversary of the publication of H.L.A. Hart’s Law,...

A financial market benchmark is a measure of performance. Prominent examples include the settlement prices of widely used futures contracts and measures which abstract away from a group of transactions or other information from a cash market and produce a reference price or rate, such as...

Blockchain and distributed ledger technology (DLT) has generated much excitement over the past decade, with proclamations that it would disrupt everything from elections to finance. Unsurprisingly, the much-maligned corporate form is also considered ripe for disruption. While certainly...