Asian Institute of International Financial Law (AIIFL), HKU

Academic Advisory Board

Professor Louise Gullifer KC (Hon)

Affiliation Chair, AIIFL Academic Advisory Board and FBA, Rouse Ball Professor of English Law, University of Cambridge (United Kingdom)

Journal Articles

  1. Proprietary Rights and Digital Assets: a "Modest Proposal" from a Transnational Law Perspective (2025) 87 Law and Contemporary Problems 211-232 2025
  2. The UNCITRAL Model Law and Secured Transactions Law Reform (2023) 17 Brooklyn Journal of Corporate, Financial and Commercial Law 97 2023
  3. The Relationship between the MAC and the Rail (Luxembourg) Protocols to the Cape Town Convention and Domestic Secured Transactions… Read more (2022) 8 Cape Town Convention Academic Journal 22 2022
  4. Secured Transactions reform: lessons from Asia (2021) 4 JIBFL 256 2021
  5. Interpretation of Market Standard Form Contracts (2021) JBL 227 2021
  6. How final is final? Settlement finality, blockchains and DLT (2020) 1 Journal of International Banking and Financial Law 8 2020
  7. 'A comparison of the position of buyers under the Cape Town Convention, the three existing Protocols and the draft MAC Protocol (2017) 6 Cape Town Convention Academic Journal 97 2020
  8. Crypto-claimants and Bitcoin Bankruptcy: Challenges for Recognition and Realisation (2019) 28 International Insolvency Review 233 2019
  9. 'A global tug of war: a topography of micro-business financing (2017) Law and Contemporary Problems 109 2017
  10. Sales’ on Retention of Title terms: is the English law analysis broken? (2017) 133 Law Quarterly Review 244 2017
  11. 'Financing Micro-businesses and the UNCITRAL Model Law on Secured Transactions (2017) Uniform Law Review 642 2017
  12. ''A Case for Interfering with Freedom of Contract? An Empirically-Informed Study of Bans on Assignment'' [2016] Journal of Business Law 203 [2016] Journal of Business Law 203 2016
  13. 'Ban on Assignment Clauses: Views from the Coalface (2015) 30 Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law 463 2015
  14. 'Should clauses prohibiting assignment be overridden by statute? (2015) 4 Penn State Journal of Law and International Affairs 47 2015
  15. 'The interpretation of retention of title clauses: Wilson v Holt generates some difficulties (2014) Lloyds Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly 564 2014
  16. Bills of Sale: Ripe for Reform? (2013) 11 Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law 685 2013
  17. The reform of the English law of secured transactions (2012) 213 Droit et patrimoine (Kluwer) 72 2012
  18. What should we do about Financial Collateral? (2012) 65 Current Legal Problems 377 2012

Chapters in Books

  1. The Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 at 25 2026
  2. Mandatory and Default Rules in Contract and Commercial Law 2026
  3. Default Rules in Private Law 2025
  4. Politics, Policy and Private Law Volume II: Contract, Commercial and Company Law 2025
  5. Digital Assets in Enforcement and Insolvency 2025
  6. Elgar Companion to UNIDROIT 2024
  7. Shaping the Law of Obligations 2023
  8. Intermediaries in Commercial Law 2022
  9. Financial Infrastructures: Law and Regulation 2022
  10. The World of Maritime and Commercial Law: Essays in Honour of Francis Rose 2020
  11. The Contents of Commercial Contracts: Terms Affecting Freedoms 2020
  12. Treatment of Contracts in Insolvency 2020
  13. The Future of Commercial Law: Ways Forward for Change and Reform 2020
  14. Intermediation and beyond 2019
  15. McKnight, Paterson and Zakrzewski on the Law of International Finance 2017
  16. Commercial Remedies: Resolving Controversies 2017
  17. Ranking and Priority of Creditors 2016
  18. Secured Lending in Commercial Transactions 2015
  19. English and European Perspectives in Contract and Commercial Law 2014

Other Works

  1. 'Review of Australian Personal Property Securities Law, Antony Duggan and David Brown 2014
  2. 'Review of Intermediated Securities: the Impact of the Geneva Securities Convention and the Future European Legislation 2014