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Current projects

Title Funder Start date End date
The Contribution of the Global South to the Development of Human Rights The Leverhulme Trust 1 September 2026 31 August 2029
The elephant in the room: assessing money laundering risks in the UK construction industry 1 October 2022 31 December 2027
Currency risk-sharing facility for scaling up local currency climate finance in Uganda 1 March 2025 31 December 2026
Competition Compliance Programmes: A Comparative Law & Economics Analysis 1 September 2022 31 August 2026

Past projects

Title Funder Start date End date
Behind Closed Books: Money Laundering in UK Insolvency Proceedings Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) 6 January 2025 31 March 2026
Online Sexual Exploitation in Present and Future: Effective Criminal Justice Responses: Regulation of Cybercrime and Other Aspects Crimes Online 1 June 2023 31 December 2024
Enhancing MDB Capacity through Local Currency Financing 1 September 2023 30 September 2024
Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence in Digital Governance European Commission 1 September 2019 1 September 2023
CONtract SOLutions for Effective and lasting delivery of agri-environmental-climate public goods by EU agriculture and forestry (CONSOLE) EU Horizon 2020 1 May 2019 31 October 2022
Application of Competition Law in Technology Markets Philip Leverhulme Prize 1 September 2018 31 July 2022
INBOTS: Inclusive Robotics for a Better Society EU Horizon 2020 1 January 2018 30 June 2021
Defining Freedom of the Press : A Cross national examination of press ethics and regulation in ten European countries Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) 1 May 2018 3 June 2021
Co-evolution of Facebook’s Content Policies & International Instruments Facebook 1 April 2020 31 March 2021
Boosting Growth through Strengthening Investor and Creditor Protection in China: How China Can Learn from the UK experience Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Global Challenges Research Fund 1 May 2017 21 February 2021
Goals and Purposes of EU Competition Law: What Does the Data Say? Konkurrensverket (Competition Authority, Sweden) 1 September 2019 31 August 2020
Access and Benefit Sharing in Practice: Community, Science and Policy Darwin Initiative 1 April 2017 30 March 2020
Shale Gas Development : A benchmark review of the regulatory Framework Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) 1 March 2019 1 September 2019
Business Judgment And The Courts Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) 1 October 2016 30 November 2018
EUPILLAR (European Union Private International Law: Legal Application in Reality) 1 May 2015 30 August 2016
Examination of Transactional Avoidance in the Context of European Insolvencies 1 April 2015 31 July 2016
Security Rights and the European Insolvency Regulation Economic and Social and Humanities Research Council (ESRC) 1 May 2014 1 May 2016
Study on Substantive Insolvency Law 1 April 2015 1 January 2016
Reforming the European Insolvency Regulation 1 April 2013 1 April 2015
Governance and Legitimacy in the EU 1 January 2007 31 October 2014
Economic and Social Constitutionalism 1 January 2007 31 October 2014
Economic and Social Integration in the EU and Beyond – Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Jean Monnet ad personam chair) 1 September 2011 31 August 2014
Industrial action and the peace obligation on the internal market in Europe 1 April 2010 31 May 2014
Credit and Debt: Protecting The Vulnerable In Europe 1 April 2008 1 March 2011
Economic and Social Constitutionalism after the Treaty of Lisbon "an Interdisciplinary Perspective" 1 September 2008 31 August 2010
Internationalisation of Secured Credit Law: the UNCITRAL experience 1 October 2008 1 June 2010
The WTO Dispute Settlement Mechanism as a New Technique for Settling Disputes in International Law 1 November 2008 31 July 2009
Rescuing Corporate Reorganisation: a transatlantic evaluation Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) 1 February 2007 1 February 2008
The Ultimate Objective of the Corporation 1 April 2007 1 January 2008
Intellectual Property and Biotechnology 6th European Framework Programme in Research and Development - REFGOV (Reflexive Governance in the Public Interest) project; White Rose Collaboration Fund - IPBio Network
The Governance of Chinese Listed Companies Ongoing Ongoing
Derivative Actions in Corporate Law Ongoing
Board Accountability in Corporate Governance Ongoing Ongoing