Professor David Milman (Professorial Associate)

Professor David Milman
Professor of Law, University of Lancaster

Professor David Milman is Head of Department at the Law School at Lancaster University, which he joined in 2005. Previously, he had been at the Univesity of Manchester where he was Dean of Law between 1995 and 1997.

He is co-editor of the Annotated Guide to the Insolvency Legislation, Insolvency Intelligence and the Bankruptcy and Personal Insolvency Reports, and has numerous other publications. He is an honourary member of the Insolvency Lawyer's Association and chairs it's Academic Advisory Group. He is a subscriber member of R3.

His research interests lie in the fields of company law, insolvency law, international business law and partnership law. He has carried out funded research for the DTI, the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants , the Insolvency Lawyers' Association, the Centre for Business Performance at the ICAEW and insolvency practitioners. His current research focus is in the area of bankruptcy law and personal credit and he is also working on corporate law reform and the problems of convergence in national systems of Company law. He presented a paper on the latter subject at Rotterdam in December 2009, where he is a distinguished visitor in the Erasmus School of Law. He is also working in the area of enforcement of debt obligations outside the traditional bankruptcy regime.

Publications

He has published Modern Partnership Law (1983, with T. Flanagan), Sweet & Maxwell's Annotated Guide to the Companies Consolidation Acts (3rd ed., 1991, co-editor), Educational Conflict and the Law (1986), Annotated Guide to the 1986 Insolvency Legislation (11th ed. 2008 with L. Sealy), Receivers and Receiverships (1987, with J. Rushworth) and Corporate Insolvency Law and Practice (3rd ed. 1999, with C. Durrant), Regulating Enterprise (1999).

In 1998 a Study of the Operation of Transactional Avoidance Mechanisms in Corporate Insolvency Practice (with R. Parry) was published. He was also a contributor to Palmer's Company Law (25th ed.) and is a co-editor of Bankruptcy and Personal Insolvency Reports. He contributed threee chapters to a new text (Palmer's Limited Liability Partnerships Law) in 2002. From 2007 Milman contributed to a number of Divisions in OUP's Annotated Companies Acts. Personal Insolvency Law, Regulation and Policy (ISBN 0 7546 4302 6) was published by Ashgate in the autumn of 2005.