Louise Gullifer
Professor of Commercial Law
Louise Gullifer has been teaching at Oxford since 1991. Before that she practised at the Commercial Bar in chambers at 3 Gray's Inn Place (now 3 Verulam Buildings), under her maiden name (Louise Edwards). She remains an honorary member of those chambers. She teaches Roman law, Contract law, Commercial Law, Corporate Finance law and Corporate Insolvency law and is the senior law tutor at Harris Manchester College. From 1994-97 she was a Fellow of Brasenose College. She is Chair of the University Student Disciplinary Panel and has been the Oxford Law Faculty Development Co-ordinator.
Her research interests focus broadly on commercial law and corporate finance. She has co-authored books on security and title financing and corporate finance, and is presently co-authoring books on personal property and set-off in arbitration. She is particularly interested in financial collateral and intermediated securities, and recently delivered a Current Legal Problems lecture on financial collateral. She is a member of the Executive Committee of the Secured Transaction Law Reform Project (see http://securedtransactionsproject.wordpress.com/) and is also the Oxford Law Faculty Academic Lead for the Cape Town Convention Academic Project (see http://www.law.ox.ac.uk/newsitem=365).
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2013
P Pichonnaz and L Gullifer, set-off in arbitration and commercial transactions (Oxford University Press 2013) (forthcoming)
M Bridge, L Gullifer, S Worthington and G McMeel, The Law of Personal Property (Sweet & Maxwell 2013) (forthcoming)
2012
L Gullifer, 'Personal Property Security Law: Where Next? (Part 1)' (2012) Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law 465
H Beale, M Bridge, L Gullifer and E Lomnicka, The Law of Security and Title Finance (2nd edn, Oxford University Press 2012)
L Gullifer, 'The reform of the English law of secured transactions' (2012) 213 Droit et patrimoine (Kluwer) 72
L Gullifer, 'What should we do about Financial Collateral?' (2012) Current Legal Problems
2011
L Gullifer and Jennifer Payne, Corporate Finance Law : Principles and Policy (Hart Publishing 2011)
2010
L Gullifer and J Payne (eds), Intermediated Securities: Legal Problems and Practical Issues (Hart Publishing 2010)
L Gullifer and V Barns-Graham, 'The Australian PPS reforms: what will the new system look like?' (2010) 4 Law and Financial Markets Review 394
2009
L Gullifer, Wolf-Georg Ringe and Philippe Thery (eds), Current Issues in European Financial and Insolvency Law ( 2009)
L Gullifer, 'Exceptions to the Nemo Dat Rule in Relation to Goods and The Law Commission\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s Proposals' in J de Lacy (ed), Personal Property Security Law Reform in the UK (Routledge Cavendish 2009)
L Gullifer, 'Mixtures, Attornment and Reservation of title ' in Palmer (ed), Bailment ( 2009) [...]
Mixtures is part of a new chapter in the work. Attornment and Reservation of title involved very considerable updating, given that the last edition was in 1991
L Gullifer, 'Protection of Investors in Intermediated Securities' in J Armour and J Payne (eds), Rationality in Company Law ( 2009)
2008
L Gullifer and Professor Sir Roy Goode, 'Goode on Legal Problems of Credit and Security (4th ed. edited by Louise Gullifer)' (2008) Sweet & Maxwell [...]
4th edition of this well-known key text by Sir Roy Goode
L Gullifer, 'The reforms of the Enterprise Act 2002 and the Floating Charge as a security device' (2008) 46 Canadian Business Law Journal 399 [...]
Recently the UK Government passed the Companies Act 2006, which introduced many reforms to English Company Law as well as reproducing existing law in one (very long) statute. There have also been significant changes in the Corporate Insolvency area introduced by the Enterprise Act 2002, and by case law. This paper will focus on the current fate of the floating charge as a security device.
2007
L Gullifer, 'Retention of title clauses: a question of balance' in Andrew Burrows and Edwin Peel (eds), Contract Terms (OUP 2007)
L Gullifer and J Payne, 'The Characterisation of Fixed and Floating Charges' in J. Payne, J. Getzler (eds), Company ChargesSpectrum and Beyond (OUP 2007)
L Gullifer, H Beale, M Bridge and E Lomnicka, The Law of Personal Property Security (OUP 2007)
2005
L Gullifer, 'Quasi-security interests: functionalism and the incidents of security' in Iwan Davies (ed), Issues in International Commercial Law (Ashgate 2005)
2004
L Gullifer, 'The Law Commission’s Proposals: a critique' (2004) 15 European Business Law Review 811 [...]
Considers the proposals by the Law Commission for the reform of the law of personal property security interests
ISBN: 0959-6941
2003
L Gullifer, 'Agreed Remedies' in Andrew Burrows and Edwin Peel (eds), Commercial Remedies: Current Issues and Problems (Oxford University Press 2003) [...]
Book from the Norton Rose Oxford Law Colloquium held in September 2002
ISBN: 0-19-926465-1
L Gullifer, 'Will the Law Commission Sink the Floating Charge?' (2003) Lloyds Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly 125 [...]
Critique of Law Commission's proposals to reform the law on personal property security
ISBN: 0306-2945
2002
L Gullifer, 'The Cosslett Saga: Implications for the law of security over personal property' (2002) 20 Companies and Securities Law Journal 177 [...]
Discussion of the Cosslett saga of cases with implications for the law of security over personal property
ISBN: 0729-2775
2001
L Gullifer, 'One Cause After Another' (2001) 117 Law Quarterly Review 403 [Case Note] [...]
Case note on causation in tort
ISBN: 0023-933X
2000
L Gullifer, 'Risk. Frustration and Mistake' in E. McKendrick (ed), Sale of Goods ( 2000)
1999
L Gullifer, 'Constructive possession after the Sale of Goods (Amendment) Act 1995 ' (1999) Lloyds Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly 93
Research Projects
Interests
Teaching: Commercial Law; Contract; Roman Law; Corporate Finance; Corporate Insolvency Law; Law and Finance; Transnational Commercial Law
Research: Common Law, Commercial Law, Corporate Finance law
