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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L Gullifer and Jennifer Payne, Corporate Finance Law : Principles and Policy (Hart Publishing 2011)
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)
M Bridge, L Gullifer, S Worthington and G McMeel, The Law of Personal Property (Sweet & Maxwell 2013) (forthcoming)
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 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.
L Gullifer, 'What should we do about Financial Collateral?' (2012) Current Legal Problems
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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
