Professor Louise Gullifer

Email: louise.gullifer@hmc.ox.ac.uk

Louise Gullifer is Professor of Commercial Law at Oxford University. She has been teaching at Oxford since 1991, and before that she practised at 3 Verulam Buildings under her maiden name (Louise Edwards). 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 currently the Oxford Law Faculty Development Co-ordinator and is also Chair of the University Student Disciplinary Panel.

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 Transactions Law Reform Project and is also the Oxford Law Faculty Academic Lead for the Cape Town Convention Academic Project (see www.law.ox.ac.uk).

Publications

• L Gullifer and Jennifer Payne, Corporate Finance Law : Principles and Policy (Hart Publishing 2011)
• 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
• 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)
• L Gullifer, 'Protection of Investors in Intermediated Securities' in J Armour and J Payne (eds), Rationality in Company Law ( 2009)
• L Gullifer and Professor Sir Roy Goode, 'Goode on Legal Problems of Credit and Security (4th ed. edited by Louise Gullifer)' (2008) Sweet & Maxwell
• L Gullifer, 'The reforms of the Enterprise Act 2002 and the Floating Charge as a security device' (2008) 46 Canadian Business Law Journal 399-429
• 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) (second edition will be published in 2012)
• L Gullifer, 'Quasi-security interests: functionalism and the incidents of security' in Iwan Davies (ed), Issues in International Commercial Law (Ashgate 2005)
• L Gullifer, 'The Law Commission's Proposals: a critique' (2004) 15 European Business Law Review 811-834
• L Gullifer, 'Agreed Remedies' in Andrew Burrows and Edwin Peel (eds), Commercial Remedies: Current Issues and Problems (Oxford University Press 2003)
• L Gullifer, 'Will the Law Commission Sink the Floating Charge?' (2003) Lloyds Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly 125 [...]
• L Gullifer, 'The Cosslett Saga: Implications for the law of security over personal property' (2002) 20 Companies and Securities Law Journal 177
• L Gullifer, 'One Cause After Another' (2001) 117 Law Quarterly Review 403 [Case Note]
• L Gullifer, 'Risk. Frustration and Mistake' in E. McKendrick (ed), Sale of Goods (2000)
• L Gullifer, 'Constructive possession after the Sale of Goods (Amendment) Act 1995 ' (1999) Lloyds Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly 93