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Private Law and the Market: Business, Finance and Economics

Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore
in collaboration with
EW Barker Centre for Law and Business, NUS

We are pleased to announce the Conference of the Private Law Consortium to be held at the NUS Law School’s EW Barker Centre for Law and Business on 4th and 5th June 2026. The previous Conference was held at Erasmus University, Rotterdam in June 2025 on the topic of Private Law in the Age of Digitalisation and AI.

The Conferences of the Private Law Consortium is a series of annual conferences on developments in the field of Private Law. For this Conference, the focus will be on topics exploring the interaction of private law and the market, in particularly the influences, if any, of legal principles or state policies related to growth and employment, the financialisation of economies, and efficiency and empirical studies.

Possible areas of focus may include an economic analysis of private law from efficiency or behavioural perspectives, the political economy of private law eg trusts and wealth inequality, ESG concerns and private law eg directors’ fiduciary and tortious duties to balance profit maximisation and ESG compliance, asset partitioning or nexus of contract perspectives eg of agency, corporate and trust relationships, use of empirical evidence in the private law, and whether and how the needs of business and the economy influence or transform private law adjudication or legislation.

We expect that the first day will focus on these themes with the second more about private law doctrine and theory in general.

The Singapore Journal of Legal Studies has kindly agreed to publish a special issue on articles presented at the Conference subject to the usual refereeing requirements.

TitleAuthorAffiliationAbstract
The Hidden Costs of Contractual AmbiguityOmer PelledBar-Ilan UniversityView
Behavioural Analysis of Family LawShahar LifshitzBar-Ilan UniversityView
Anti-PrecautionCary Coglianese, Oren PerezBar-Ilan UniversityView
War and the Frustration of ContractsAlexander LokeCity University of Hong KongView
Equity in a ‘Trustless’ Market OrderAlvin Hoi-Chun HungCity University of Hong KongView
Assessment and Valuation of Damages of CryptocurrencyMark HsiaoCity University of Hong KongView
Reconciling the Theory and Practice of Stakeholder GovernanceAdefolake AdeyeyeDurham UniversityView
The Contractualisation ParadoxIrina SakharovaDurham UniversityView
Gendered Wealth and the Rise of Non-Marriage Among Chinese WomenJia Wang, Qin YuanxiDurham UniversityView
Buy Now, Pay Later under the New EU Consumer Credit DirectiveJosje de VogelErasmus UniversityView
Rights & Counter-Rights: The Legal Dimensions of Access Abuse in Data ProtectionLarisa MunteanuErasmus UniversityView
IP Ownership and Penalty Default RulesTun-Jen (TJ) ChiangGeorge Mason UniversityView
Simplifying the Complex: Experimental Evidence on Attribute Substitution in Legal Decision-MakingYijia Lu (co-authored with Wei-Cheng Chen and Thomas Yi Lu)George Mason UniversityView
Policy and Practice in Commercial Law and Crypto AssetsHans Tjio, Tan Zhong XingNational University of SingaporeView
Payment Fraud Legislation: An Economic Efficiency AnalysisSandra BooysenNational University of SingaporeView
A Market for (Green) Lemons Consumers’ Self-Determination Against Green ClaimsFederico Pistelli, Tommaso De MariUniversity of TrentoView

 

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EW Barker Centre for Law & Business
National University of Singapore – Faculty of Law
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Singapore 138529