Jonathan Hardman is Senior Lecturer in Company and Commercial Law at the University of Edinburgh. Dr Alisdair MacPherson is Senior Lecturer in Commercial Law at the University of Aberdeen. He is the author of The Floating Charge (2020) and editor of Avizandum Statutes on Scots Commercial and Consumer Law. His work has also been published in leading law journals.Alisdair D. J. MacPherson is Senior Lecturer in Commercial Law at the University of Aberdeen

• ForewordLord Drummond Young Editors’ Preface and AcknowledgmentsJonathan Hardman & Alisdair D. J. MacPhersonPart I: The History of Floating Charges1. The ‘Pre-History’ of Floating Charges in Scots LawAlisdair D. J. MacPherson2. Borrowing on the Undertaking: Scottish Statutory CompaniesRoss G Anderson3. The Genesis of the Scottish Floating ChargeAlisdair D. J. MacPherson4. The Story of the Scots Law Floating Charge: 1961 to DateGeorge L. GrettonPart II: Theoretical, Comparative and Policy Perspectives5. Law and Economics of the Floating ChargeJonathan Hardman6. Floating Charges and Moral Hazard: Finding Fairness for Involuntary and Vulnerable StakeholdersJennifer L. L. Gant7. Hohfeld and the Scots Law Floating ChargeJonathan Hardman8. The Species and Structure(s) of the Floating Charge: The English Law Perspective on the Scottish Floating ChargeMagda RaczynskaPart III: Practice, Doctrine and the Future9. The Ranking of Floating ChargesJonathan Hardman and Alisdair D. J. MacPherson10. The Floating Charge and Insolvency LawDonna McKenzie Skene11. The Empirical Importance of the Floating Charge in ScotlandJonathan Hardman and Alisdair D. J. MacPherson12. Reform of the Scottish Floating ChargeAndrew J. M. StevenIndex

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