About us
The Centre brings together world-class scholars working in the fields of private and commercial law, promoting doctrinal, collaborative, socio-legal and inter-disciplinary approaches.
Our work includes scholarship in the fields of contract, tort, unjust enrichment, property, commercial, insurance, and company law, with world-leading scholars based in the Centre for Private and Commercial Law. The Centre provides a supportive environment in which projects and ideas are discussed, challenged and developed. As a platform to disseminate work, the Centre creates opportunities to engage with the wider legal community, notably with policymakers and practitioners.
Research themes and activity include:
- English, European and comparative private law
- English and European tort law
- Contract law
- History of contract law and contractual interpretation
- National and international commercial law
- Public procurement and outsourcing contract
- Business and company law
- History of intellectual property
- International commercial arbitration
- Law and economics of commercial transactions
- Law of damages
- Insurance law
- Unjust enrichment
- Corporate governance and social sustainability
- Compensation for incapacity
- Contracts of employment