Agency Law in Commercial Practice

Danny Busch, Professor of Financial Law, University of Nijmegen,Laura Macgregor, Professor of Commercial Contract Law, University of Edinburgh,Peter Watts, Professor of Law, The University of Auckland

Danny Busch holds the Chair for Financial Law at Radboud University, Nijmegen. He also is the Director of the Institute for Financial Law at the University of Nijmegen. From 2002 until 2010 he was an attorney-at-law (advocaat) with the leading Dutch law firm De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek in Amsterdam where he practised banking and securities law (both the private law and regulatory aspects).

Laura Macgregor is Senior Lecturer in Commercial Law at the University of Edinburgh. She is Director of the Edinburgh Centre for Commercial Law, the main aim of which is to foster closer ties between academia and commercial practice. She is Visiting Professor in International Commercial Law at Radboud University, Nijmegen.

Peter Watts is a professor at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He is also a barrister at Bankside Chambers, Auckland and a Door Tenant at Fountain Court Chambers, London. In 2012, he appeared as counsel in New Zealand's Court of Appeal, and in the Supreme Court, New Zealand's highest court. In May 2013 he was made Queen's Counsel.

Part I: General
1. Introduction, Danny Busch, Laura MacGregor, and Peter Watts
Part II: General Contract Law
2. Ratification, Dr Thomas Krebs
3. Unidentified principles in common law, Francis Reynolds
4. Undisclosed Agency, Sebastian Kortmann and Jeroen Kortmann
Part III: Company Law
5. Directors as Agents -- Some Aspects of Disputed Territory, Peter Watts
6. The Agency of Liquidators and Receivers, Cheng-Han Tan and Meng Send Wee
Part IV: Sale of Goods
7. Undisclosed Principals and the Sale of Goods, Gerald Fridman
Part V: Financial Transactions and Services
8. Representation and dealing on own account under the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive, Danny Busch
9. The Poseur as Agent, Deborah DeMott
10. Agency and the Retail Distribution of Financial Products, Gerard McMeel
11. The Duty of Disclosure In Pre-Contractual Insurance Contexts: Imputation of The Agent's Knowledge, Laura Macgregor
Part VI: Agency in Procedural Contexts
12. Powers of Attorney, Strictly Speaking, Gino Dal Pont
13. Commercial Agency and the Conflict of Laws: What Place for Party Autonomy?, Janeen Carutthers