Research Handbook on Agency and Intermediation

Name: Research Handbook on Agency and Intermediation
Brand: Edward Elgar Publishing
SKU: 9781035321711
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Author: Deborah DeMott; Tan Cheng Han
ISBN: 9781035321711

Edited by Deborah DeMott · Tan Cheng Han

Edward Elgar Publishing February 2026

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ISBN-13: 9781035321711
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Publication: February 2026
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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This Research Handbook reaffirms agency law as a coherent body of law that governs consensual relationships in which one person has power to act with legal consequences for another person. The book explores how agency law and vicarious liability are related to but distinct from other subjects within private law, including contract and tort law.

Written by leading experts, the chapters provide novel coverage of significant and recurrent issues regarding legal agents and intermediaries in a general context, such as policy underpinnings and authority and boundaries. Contributors situate legal agency as a central orienting point to examine a range of intermediaries within distinct markets including securities, insurance, and visual art. Incorporating analyses of recent and leading cases, they identify similarities and differences between various approaches. They investigate the policy considerations underlying legal doctrines relating to agency and intermediaries, and address liability for wrongs committed by agents.

This Research Handbook on Agency and Intermediation is a crucial resource for academics, researchers and students specializing in private and commercial law, as well as corporate law and governance, and business law. Lawyers and litigators in commercial practice and specialists in securities and visual art will also benefit from its valuable insights.

PART I INTRODUCTION; 1.
Introduction 2: Deborah A. DeMott and Tan Cheng Han; 2.
An overview of agency doctrine 16: Deborah A. DeMott and Tan Cheng Han; PART II CORE AREAS OF DOCTRINE; 3.
Some problems about principals 33: Francis Reynolds; 4.
Policy underpinnings of the law of agency 51: Tan Cheng Han; 5.
Authority and legal powers in the law of agency 69: James Penner; 6.
Forfeiture of an agent’s commission for breach of duty: a Scottish perspective 86: Laura Macgregor; 7.
When do agents have a privilege and even a duty not to follow instructions? 112: Peter Watts; >br>; PART III MARKETS AND THEIR INTERMEDIARIES; 8.
Advisors as agents 130: Arthur B. Laby; 9.
Retail investors and capital markets intermediation 153: James Fallows Tierney; 10.
If they cry? Agency costs and opportunistic sales practices by securities professionals 176: Donald C. Langevoort; 11.
The changing notions of financial intermediaries as agents: the role of regulatory governance in the UK 197: Iris H-Y Chiu; 12.
Independent expert body?: a case study of FINRA’s self-regulatory role 219: James A. Fanto; 13.
The art dealer as intermediary 242: William E. Foster and Anna Nolan-Wheatley; 14.
When sleepers awake: sellers’ regret and art-market intermediaries 267: Deborah A. DeMott; 15.
Insurance as asset management 288: Colleen Honigsberg and Edwin Hu; PART IV VICARIOUS LIABILITY; 16.
A principal’s liability for the wrongful acts of its agents 309: Rachel Leow; 17.
Vicarious liability: a systems-managerial approac 334: Christian Witting; 18.
Attribution and aggregation: problems in criminal agency liability 359: Samuel W. Buell; 19.
Theories of principal tort liability in the U.S. Supreme Court 372: Daniel Harris; PART V FIRMS AND THEIR BOUNDARIES: INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL AGENCY RELATIONSHIPS; 20.
Cross-selling gatekeepers 392: Omari Scott Simmons; 21.
Commercial agency and the sale of goods: unnecessary complications 419: Howard Bennett; 22.
Intermediaries: the data linchpins of human rights due diligence 440: Lisa Hsin and Ernest Lim; 23.
The liability of Internet platform intermediaries 460: Daniel Seng