Category Archives: Commercial Law

Ship’s Delivery Orders

Commercial Law, Maritime Law

In one of the few contributions on ship’s delivery orders in an established maritime law journal (‘Ship’s Delivery Orders’ [1976] LMCLQ 29), Nigel Teare traced the delivery order to 1888 in the Scottish case of Cunningham v Guthrie ([1888] 26 Sc .L.R. 208). The use of a delivery order must indeed have been new at that time as Lord Trayner referred to the ‘somewhat novel mode of procuring cargo on delivery-order’.

Law by Algorithm

Commercial Law, Law & Technology, Private Law

My review article in the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies offers a critical analysis of Horst Eidenmüller and Gerhard Wagner’s Law by Algorithm by focusing on four major sets of issues that are covered in this important work: (i) separate legal personality for artificial intelligence (AI) systems; (ii) the exploitation and protection of consumers; (iii) liability; and (iv) online dispute resolution.