Activities & Other Outputs

Guest Editor, European Business Law Review, volume 35 issue 5 and issue 6;

Honorary Associate Professor, University of Auckland Business School;

Visiting Scholar, University of Auckland Business School, 2023;

Visiting Scholar, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2023;

I am one of the founders and co-organisers of the Global Corporate Law Seminar Series (with V Barnes, E Micheler and S Wheeler);

I am one of the founders and co-editors of the Edinburgh Universty Press book series Global Studies in Commercial and Financial Law (with V Barnes and S Wheeler) - drop me an email to discuss book proposal ideas;

I served for 3 years as the Convenor of the Company Law Subject Section of the Society of Legal Scholars (the UK's premiere legal academic society);

I served for 6 years as the Convenor of the Law Society of Scotland's Banking, Company and Insolvency Law Policy Sub-Committee, tasked with overseeing the Scottish legal profession's response to law reform.

'Conceptual Challenges for Creditors of Companies', in JM Wood, S Ellina and J Tribe (eds) Creditors and Directors: Law and Liability (OUP 2026)

The Development of Commercial Law in Scotland, Volume 1: Concepts and Themes (ed with ADJ MacPherson and ALM Wilson), (EUP 2026)

The Origins of Company Law: Methods and Approaches (ed with V Barnes), (Hart, 2024);

The Limits and Logic of Agency Theory in Company Law (2024, Routledge);

Commercial Law in Scotland (with L Macgregor, ADJ MacPherson, L Carey and L Richardson';

'Insolvency Law through the Lens of Company Law Theories', in E Ghio, J Wood and JLL Gant (eds) Re-examining Insolvency Law and Theory: Perspectives for the 21st Century (Elgar, 2023);

'Atomising Corporate Law: A Battle Cry for Splitters', in CM Bruner and MT Moore (eds), A Research Agenda for Corporate Law (Elgar, 2023);

'Insolvency Law through the Lens of Company Law Theories', in E Ghio, JM Wood and JLL Gant (eds), Re-examining Insolvency Law and Theory (Elgar, 2023);

'United Kingdom Historical Viewpoint',  in RS Thomas, P Giudici and U Varottil, Research Handbook on Shareholder Inspection Rights: A Comparative Perspective (Elgar, 2023);

'Cautionary Obligations' in H MacQueen and R Eassie (eds) Gloag and Henderson: The Law of Scotland (15th edn, W Green & Sons);

'Hiring, Deposit and Donation' in H MacQueen and R Eassie (eds) Gloag and Henderson: The Law of Scotland (15th edn, W Green & Sons);

 Floating Charges in Scotland: New Perspectives and Current Issues, ed with ADJ MacPherson (EUP 2022);

'Law and Economics of the Floating Charge' in the above (EUP 2022);

'Hohfeld and the Scots Law Floating Charge' in the above (EUP 2022);

'The Ranking of Floating Charges' (with ADJ MacPherson) in the above (EUP 2022);

'The Empirical Importance of the Floating Charge in Scotland' (with ADJ MacPherson) in the above (EUP 2022);

'Law and Economics of Corporate Financial Difficulty' in PJ Omar and JLL Gant (eds) Research Handbook on Corporate Restructuring (Elgar 2021);

 Commercial Law in Scotland (with L Macgregor, L Richardson, D Garrity and ADJ MacPherson, W Green 2020, 6th edn);

 A Practical Guide to Granting Corporate Security in Scotland (W Green 2018)

Speaker at University of Birmingham, 'Research-led teaching in Company Law and the limits of pedagogy', 5 April 2025 (title: 'Can Teaching Corporate Law Practice be Critical'?)

Host of 'Perspectives on the Corporation', University of Edinburgh, 24 - 26 June 2024;

Speaker at University of Exeter, 'The Limits and Logic of Agency Theory in Company Law', 23 February 2024.

Speaker at Waiheke, New Zealand, 'The Elephant in the Room' 2 November 2023 (title: 'Concession Theory);

Speaker at UCL, London 'Queering Private Law' 11-12 September 2023 (title: 'A Roadmap for Queering(?) Corporate Law');

Invited speaker at Monash CLARS Conference, Prato 'Sustainable Capitalisma and the Corporation', 20-21 July 2023 (title: Fixing Corporate Law's Incentive for Externality);

Speaker at the Hart Workshop 2023, London, 'Theorists in Company Law', 29-30 June 2023 (title: The Battleground for the Legal Interaction with Institutional Economics: Susan Watson and Eva Micheler);

Invited speaker at Oxford Brookes, 'Landmark Cases in Company Law' 28 June 2023 (title: Quin & Axtens Ltd v Salmon);

Invited speaker at Law Society of Scotland, 'Conference on Commercial Contracts' 30 May 2023 (title: Moveable Transactions Reform: Pledge);

Invited speaker at Edinburgh University, 'Moveable Transactions Reform Conference' 21 and 22 April 2023 (title: Moveable Transactions Reform and Scottish Share "Pledges"');

Host & Organiser at Edinburgh University, 'The Future of Company Law' 27 and 28 April 2023;

Invited speaker at Nottingham law School, 'Annual Conference of the Partnership, LLP and LLC Law Forum'15 September 2022 (title: Empirical reflections on LLPs and LPs, with L Macgregor);

Speaker at World Interdisciplinary Network of Institutional Researchers Annual Conference 9 September 2022 (title: Corporate Law's Incentive for Externality);

Invited speaker at LSE, 'An Institutional Theory of the Firm' 16 - 17 June 2022 (title: Real Entities in Fictitious Persons: Separate Legal Personality and the Firm);

Invited speaker at Maastricht University, 'Ius Commune 2021' 25 Novembeer 2021 (title: Fixing Limited Liability)

Host and organiser at Edinburgh University, 'Partnership Law Conference' 23 April 2021;

Speaker at Oslo University, 'Daughters of Themis Conference' 16 April 2021 (title: The Nexus of Contracts Revisited: Delineating the Business, the Firm and the Legal Entity);