BRITISH BUSINESS ACADEMYRESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERNATIONAL · UNITED KINGDOMUNITED KINGDOM · SINGAPORE · UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
Legal science and comparative jurisprudence
Investigate legal philosophy, comparative constitutional and administrative systems, civil and commercial law, public international law, emerging technology and the methodological foundations of legal scholarship.
Research studies, papers and teaching materials related by their questions and methods. A cross-disciplinary connection does not imply that a study was conducted within every linked sector.
How can one enterprise operate responsibly within two different governance systems? This study compares Russian and Chinese institutional and legal arrangements and proposes an integrated framework for cross-border corporate decision-making, accountability and risk management.
Read the research overviewDigital platforms and AI systems are reshaping where legal authority is exercised. This paper explores conflicts of jurisdiction, extraterritorial rules and data governance, with particular attention to regulatory interactions involving Russia and China.
Read the research overviewA research pathway connecting corporate governance with digital regulation. Two independent studies provide complementary perspectives on authority, accountability and institutional coordination across borders.
Read the research collectionA comparative legal dissertation connects corporate governance, capital markets, insolvency, compliance and financial technologies across national legal systems.
Read the research overviewA joint doctoral manuscript develops a governance perspective on the potential return of foreign companies to a market affected by sanctions and institutional uncertainty.
Read the research overviewPlanned studies from the Academy's 80-project agenda. Each detailed page contains a research problem, hypothesis, proposed methods, work packages and sources.
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How should boards allocate accountability when algorithms recommend strategic decisions?
Which board practices distinguish public-service obligations from commercial targets?
What can board members actually verify in corporate sustainability disclosures?
How can clinics distinguish promising intervention hypotheses from evidence of clinical benefit?
Where does moral responsibility reside in distributed human–machine processes?
When does worker monitoring cease to be meaningfully voluntary?
Which features of appeal systems produce procedurally fair outcomes?
How should researchers weigh public benefit against re-identification and consent risks?
Can traceability systems verify labour and environmental claims rather than merely record documents?
Which legal design principles reconcile data obligations across incompatible jurisdictions?
Who bears responsibility when an AI agent enters contracts or changes records?
Which evidence rules support disputes involving automated order fulfilment?
Is extending legal personality to autonomous systems useful or conceptually misleading?
What actually breaks when a transnational data workflow confronts new transfer restrictions?
Which governance practices help foreign projects withstand policy discontinuities?
How should cross-border research teams share recognition and exploitation rights?
Which business services become more tradable as AI alters delivery and verification costs?
How can physical hazard exposure propagate through credit, insurance and trade?
Through which channels does sovereign risk affect private investment decisions?
How can companies detect legal exposure without relying on static country risk lists?
Which architectural decisions reduce vendor dependence and preserve public accountability?
How should institutions provide discoverability without exposing confidential underlying files?
What evidence is needed to disclose and verify AI assistance in academic writing?
Under what conditions does dynamic pricing improve matching or create exploitative outcomes?
How should creative businesses structure provenance and compensation when AI is used in production?
Can outcome-based procurement encourage novel services without sacrificing accountability?
How can researchers avoid mistaking executive narratives for verified organisational facts?
When do synthetic datasets support legitimate method development but fail substantive inference?
How should research teams handle consent and jurisdictional differences in data use?
Can qualitative scenarios be transparent enough for independent critique?
Which elements of service design affect trust in state institutions?
How can governments support strategic innovation without indefinitely subsidising weak ventures?
When do regulatory sandboxes generate learnings rather than prolonged exemptions?
Can fairness conclusions remain stable when populations and inputs change?
How can identity, payments and public registries interoperate without creating a single point of failure?