This has been an area of traditional strength for the Centre. The corporate law research covers most areas of company law with particular interest in corporate governance (objectives of public companies, directors duties, director accountability, shareholder rights, remedies and litigation, shareholder engagement, corporate social responsibility, governance and the corporate sector of the legal profession) and corporate insolvency (comparative approaches to corporate rescue, liquidation, administration, transactional avoidance, forum shopping and jurisdictional competition in the context of international insolvency proceedings). In contract and consumer law, we concentrate on: consumer credit and over-indebtedness, analysis of the law of guarantees from efficiency and redistributional perspectives, practical and theoretical approaches to remedies for breach of contract and norms of consumer protection in the realm of financial contracting with consideration of national and European approaches.<br><br>Our competition research covers most areas of competition (antitrust) law. Our particular interests include: abuse of dominance (market power), anticompetitive agreements, public and private enforcement of competition law, including criminalisation (the imprisonment of executives for cartel activity), parental liability for competition law infringements, etc. We have a growing interest and expertise in the challenges of technology markets for competition law, including blockchain technology, networks, and online platforms. Our international trade law research covers international economic law, particularly international trade law under the World Trade Organization (WTO) with a particular interest in international agricultural trade regulation. This strand of research also investigates: alternatives to investor-State arbitration, business and human rights, sustainable development in investment treaties and investment contracts.