This is the introduction to four lectures published together in the November 2019 issue of Lloyds Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly. The lectures were part of a special series, "The Common Law and Finance: Perspectives from the Bench" held in Oxford in 2018-2019. In the series, senior judges...

Recent years have witnessed the emergence and rapid growth of a large, diverse, and constantly evolving shadow payment system. The shadow payment platforms (SPPs) that populate this system perform many of the same core payment functions as conventional deposit-taking banks: including custody,...

In this piece, written in honour of Gabriel Moss QC, I make some observations about three recent developments in the law governing the treatment of the directors of insolvent companies: first, the decision of Mr Justice Snowden in Grant v Ralls on the approach to determining quantum in...

This article explores the relevance of behavioral economics for legal issues in private international law. It finds that this relevance is limited. Choice of law problems in particular can be fruitfully analyzed with the neo-classical apparatus of economic theory that includes information...