Publications and events

International Business Law Research Group members author important and cutting-edge scholarship on international business law. Several of these publications have had impact outside academia and have been mentioned by external organisations.

Publications

2021 - forthcoming

Ezechukwu N, ‘Regulating Innovation for Financial Inclusion: Lessons from Nigeria’ (2021) Journal of African Law
Ghio E, ‘Transposing the Directive on Preventive Restructuring: A French Perspective’ (2021) 30 International Insolvency Review
Gompertz K, ‘Arguing for a Different Conclusion: was Midland Bank Ltd. V Green (No1) incorrectly decided?’ (2021) Coventry Law Journal
Gompertz K, ‘UK Company Law Through a Quaker prism: Parke v The Daily News Revisited’ (2021) Coventry Law Journal

2020

Ezechukwu N, ‘Providing Meaningful Protection for Mobile Payment Consumers: What Tools are Fit for Purpose’ (2020) Journal of Business Law
Ezechukwu N, ‘Consumer-generated Reviews: Time for Closer Scrutiny?’ (2020) 40 Legal Studies
Ezechukwu N and Ojogbo S, ‘Shareholder Protection a Necessity for Corporate Finance: A Comparative Review of legal/regulatory protection for corporate shareholders in the UK and Nigeria’ (2020) 64 Journal of African Law
Ghio E and Perlingeiro R (eds.), ‘Theory and Practice of General Principles of International Legal Cooperation: A Thematic and Comparative Approach’ (2020) 23 Revista Juris Poiesis
Ghio E, ‘International Legal Cooperation and the Principle of Harmonisation: Lessons from Cross-Border Insolvency’ (2020) 23 Revista Juris Poiesis
Ghio E et al., ‘The Limits and Logic of the EU Harmonisation Process in the Wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic’ (2020) Eurofenix (Summer)

2019

Ghio E, ‘Executory Contracts in Insolvency Law in France’ in Chuah J and Vaccari E (eds.), Executory Contracts in Insolvency Law (Edward Elgar, 2019)
Ghio E et al., ‘An EU Preventive Restructuring Framework: a Hole in One?’ (2019) 28 International Insolvency Review
Mason L, ‘The Four Sides of Equity’ in Vermeir K and Heiremans R (eds.), A Modest Proposal (Jubilee, 2019)
Mason L, ‘Idealism, Empiricism, Pluralism, Law: Legal Truth After Modernity’ in Condello A and Andina T (eds.), Post-Truth, Law and Philosophy (Routledge, 2019)
Mason L and Condello A, ‘Make it new! The redeeming Modernism of law and the collapsing of its polarities’ (2019) 13 Polemos
Ulgen O, ‘Technological innovations and the changing character of warfare: the significance of the 1949 Geneva Convention Seventy Years On’ (2019) 2 Journal of International Law of Peace and Armed Conflicts

Events

2023

Speaker: Lauren Watson, Chair of the UK Legal Tech Association & Dr Alan Ma, Lecturer in Law at Birmingham City University

Title: Legal Tech – Forging New Avenues in Legal Practice (Spotlight on Graduate Opportunities)

Seminar: 1 November 2023, STEAMhouse, Birmingham City University

Information link: https://www.bcs.org/events-calendar/2023/november/hybrid-event-legal-tech-forging-new-avenues-in-legal-practice/

Registration link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/legal-tech-forging-new-avenues-in-legal-practice-registration-723984937437?aff=oddtdtcreator

Speaker: Dr Laura Rodes-Sandana

Title: 'Rethinking Company Law Towards a Sustainable Economy’

Research seminar: Tuesday 19 September 2023, Birmingham City University

Link to session: https://vimeo.com/868629788/9cfde53945?share=copy

2022

Speakers: Suresh Birdi, ‘Algorithms and Collusion: Looking Beyond 2022’; Dr Alan Ma, ‘Technology in International Arbitration and Cross-Border Transactions’; Dr Emma Scali, ‘Sovereign Financing and Human Rights’

Title: ‘Contemporary Issues in International Business Law’

Research Seminar: 15 November 2022, Birmingham City University

Link to information: https://www.bcu.ac.uk/law/research/news-and-events/contemporary-issues-in-international-business-law

Speakers: Dr Alan Ma, ‘Legal Tech Adoption in Law Firms’; Damien Croker, ‘Legal Tech Lawyers and Climate’

Title: The West Midlands Branch of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, The Birmingham Branch of the British Computer Society the Chartered Institute for IT (BCS), The Society for computers and Law (SCL), and the School of Law Birmingham City University, ‘Contemporary Issues That Affect the Future of Law’

Seminar: Tuesday 1 November 2022, STEAMhouse, Birmingham City University

Speakers: Sameer Shinh, Chair of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators’ West Midlands Branch; James Ng, MFG Solicitors, Consultant; Dr Alan Ma, Lecturer in Law at Birmingham City University

Title: International Business Law Research Group, West Midlands Branch of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and the School of Law Birmingham City University, ‘International Arbitration and Dispute Resolution - The Future’.

Seminar: Tuesday 8 March 2022