LSE Law School has a long tradition of excellence in the field of commercial law. Renowned commercial lawyers who have taught at the LSE include Lord Wright, Lord Chorley, Professor Lord Wedderburn, Professor Sir Ross Cranston, Professor Paul Davies QC and Professor Sarah Worthington QC. The law school has a dedicated commercial law chair, the Cassel Chair in Commercial Law, presently held by Professor Hugh Collins. Current members of staff — including Dr Jan Kleinheisterkamp, Dr Jacco Bomhoff, Dr Jo Braitwaite, Dr Paul MacMahon, Dr Nick Sage, Dr Joseph Spooner and Dr Andrew Summers — offer a wide range of LLB and LLM commercial law options. The law school hosts regular seminars for academics and practitioners to discuss topical issues in commercial law.
Faculty
Dr Jacco Bomhoff
Dr Jo Braithwaite
Professor Hugh Collins
Sir Ross Cranston
Dr Jan Kleinheisterkamp
Dr Paul MacMahon
Professor Niamh Moloney
Dr Nick Sage
Dr Joseph Spooner
Dr Andrew Summers
Professor Dame Sarah Worthington
Recent publications
- Sarah Paterson 'A Fine Balance: Insolvency Practitioners and the Leveraging of Intermediary Power' in Paul S Davis and Tan Cheng-Han SC (eds) Intermediaries in Commercial Law (Hart 2022)
- Tatiana Cutts 'Dummy asset tracing' L.Q.R. (2019) 135 (Jan) pp.140-165; first published as a working paper: 'Dummy asset tracing' LSE Law Working Paper Series 04/2018
- Professor Sir Ross Cranston Principles of Banking Law, 3rd edition (OUP, 2018) (with Emilios Avgouleas, Kristin van Zwieten, Christopher Hare, Theodor van Sante)
- Tatiana Cutts 'Modern money had and received' (2018) Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 38 (1) pp.1-25
- Solene Rowan 'Resisting Termination: Some Comparative Observations' in A Dyson, J Goudkamp, F Wilmot-Smith (eds) Defences in Contract (Hart, Oxford 2017) 163
- Niamh Moloney 'Extracting the UK from EU Financial Services Governance: Regulatory Recasting or Shadowing from a Distance?' in M Dougan (ed), The UK after Brexit. Legal and Policy Challenges (Intersentia, 2017)
- Andrew Summers 'Unresolved issues in the law on penalties' Lloyd's Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly 2017, 1 (Jan), 95-121.
- Niamh Moloney '"Bending to Uniformity": EU Financial Regulation with and without the UK' Fordham International Law Journal (2017)
- Niamh Moloney 'The European Union in international financial governance' (2017) RSF: Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 3 (1). pp. 138-152
- Niamh Moloney 'Brexit, the EU and its Investment Banker: Rethinking ‘Equivalence’ for the EU Capital Market'LSE Law Society and Economy Working Paper Series, 05/2017
- Niamh Moloney Negotiating a Financial Services Deal'LSE Law Policy Briefing: Brexit Special Issue 25/2017
- Andrew Dyson, James Goudkamp & Frederick Wilmot-Smith (eds), Defences in Contract (Hart Publishing, 2017)
- Niamh Moloney 'EU Financial Governance and Brexit: Institutional Change or Business as Usual?' 42(1) European Law Review (2017) 112
- Niamh Moloney 'The EU in Global Financial Governance' 3 (1) Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences (2017) 138
- Niamh Moloney 'EU Financial Governance and Trading Transparency Regulation: A Test Case for the Effectiveness of Post Crisis Administrative Governance' in D Busch and G Ferrarini (eds), Regulation of EU Financial Markets: MiFID II (Oxford University Press, 2017)
- Andrew Summers ‘Cooperation, Termination and the Agreed Sum’ in Graham Virgo and Sarah Worthington (eds), Commercial Remedies: Resolving Controversies (CUP, 2017)
- Andrew Dyson, James Goudkamp & Frederick Wilmot-Smith k 'Thinking in Terms of Contract Defences'. In Dyson, Andrew, Goudkamp, James and Wilmot-Smith, Frederick, (eds.) Defences in Contract. Hart studies in private law: essays on defences . Hart Publishing , Oxford, UK (2017)
- Andrew Summers 'Deceit, difference in value and date of assessment' (2017) Law Quarterly Review, 133 . pp. 41-4
- Michael Bridge 'Remedies and Damages', in L DiMatteo, A Janssen, U Magnus and R Schulze (eds), International Sales Law (Beck/Hart/Nomos, 2016), pp. 529-86
- Michael Bridge 'Consequences of Avoidance of the Contract under the CISG', in Unidroit (ed), Eppur Si Muove: The Age of Uniform Law (Unidroit 2016), Vol 2, pp 1717-33
- Niamh Moloney 'International Financial Governance, the EU, and Brexit: the "agencification" of EU financial governance and the implications' (2016) 17 European Business Organization Law Review 451
- Niamh Moloney 'The 2013 Capital Requirements Directive IV and Capital Requirements Regulation: Implications and Institutional Effects' Zeitschrift fur Offentliches Recht (Austrian Journal of Public and International Law) (2016) 385
- Michael Bridge 'Good Faith, the Common Law and the CISG' Uniform Law Review (2017) 22 (1) pp.98-115
- Michael Bridge 'Risk of Loss', in L DiMatteo, A Janssen, U Magnus and R Schulze (eds), International Sales Law (Beck/Hart/Nomos, 2016), pp. 635-64
- Michael Bridge 'The Nature of Assignment and Non-Assignment Clauses' (2016) 132 Law Quarterly Review 47-67
- Tatiana Cutts Tracing, Value and Transactions' (2016) 79 The Modern Law Review 381
- Eva Micheler 'Resaleable debt and systemic risk' (2016) Discussion Paper Series, 53. London School of Economics and Political Science, Systemic Risk Centre, LSE (with Jason Donaldson)
- Eva Micheler 'Building a Capital Markets Union: Improving the Market Infrastructure' European Business Organisation Law Review (2016) 17 (4) pp.481-495 .
- Niamh Moloney 'Institutional Governance and Capital Markets Union: Incrementalism or a 'Big Bang'?' (2016) European Company and Financial Law Review 13(2) 376
- Niamh Moloney 'Capital Markets Union: Ever Closer Union for the EU Financial System?' (2016) 3 European Law Review 307
- Niamh Moloney 'Financial Services, the EU, and Brexit: An Uncertain Future for the City?' (2016) 17 German Law Journal 75, Brexit Supplement
- Niamh Moloney 'Conduct Rules and Investor Protection: The Evolution of the EU’s Approach' in M Casper, L Klöhn, W-H Roth and C Schmies, Festschrift für Johannes Köndgen (RWS, 2016)
- Andrew Summers ‘Choice, Benefits and the Basis of the Market Rule’ [2016] LMCLQ 202-206
- Dyson, Goudkamp & Wilmot-Smith (eds), Defences in Unjust Enrichment (Hart Publishing, 2016)
- Philipp Paech 'The Value of Financial Market Insolvency Safe Harbours' Oxford Journal of Legal Studies (2016) 36 (4) pp.855-884
- Philipp Paech 'Securities, intermediation and the blockchain - an inevitable choice between liquidity and legal certainty?' Uniform Law Review (2016) 21 (4) pp.612-639
- Jo Braithwaite 'The Dilemma of Client Clearing in the OTC Derivatives Markets' European Business Organization Law Review (2016)
- Jo Braithwaite 'The origins and implications of contractual estoppel' (2016) 13(2) Law Quarterly Review 120-147
- Jo Braithwaite and David Murphy 'Got to be certain: The legal framework for CCP default management processes' (2016) Bank of England Financial Stability Paper 37
- Jo Braithwaite and David Murphy 'Central Counterparties (CCPs) and the law of default management' Journal of Corporate Law Studies (2016)
- Eva Micheler 'Custody chains and remoteness: disconnecting investors from issuers' (2014) SRC Discussion Paper, No 14. Systemic Risk Centre, LSE
- Paul MacMahon 'Good Faith and Fair Dealing as an Underenforced Legal Norm' Law Society and Economy Working Paper Series WPS 22-2014 December 2014; Minnesota Law Review (2015) 99 (6)
- Niamh Moloney Oxford Handbook of Financial Regulation (OUP, 2015) (ed. with Professor Eilís Ferran and Professor Jennifer Payne)
- Niamh Moloney EU Securities and Financial Markets Regulation (OUP, 2014, 3 edition)