Oxford Business Law Blog

The European Union is moving toward implementing a policy to strengthen anti–money laundering (AML) supervision across its Single Market, namely enforcing requirements on banks and other firms to...

Corporate groups have been the subject of much research and debate, but mostly focussing on the position of the controlled companies, eg, the subsidiaries, rather than focussing on the parent company...

Faced with the challenges posed by the rise and evolution of disruptive technologies and innovations, countries have adopted differing regulatory approaches and adapted institutional structures and...

For years, Zappos—an Internet shoe and clothing retailer—has been offering its employees money to quit their job. From the initial $100, this one-time offer has now reached $2000. The stated purpose...

Methodology has not received sufficient attention in the field of comparative law. All too often, comparative legal scholars proceed on the assumption that placing regulatory structures from multiple...

Disclosure is an extremely valuable aspect of the current corporate law landscape, and scholars have been increasingly referring to it and engaging with in-depth discussions on the topic. The...

In my latest paper ‘Normative Goals in Merger Control’, I deal with the recent calls for extending the scope of merger appraisal to normative goals outside the realm of the consumer welfare paradigm...

Since computers entered into the mainstream in the 1960s, the efficiency with which data could be processed has raised regulatory questions. This is well understood with respect to privacy. Data that...

On October 2, 2019, a parliamentary mission from the French Finance, General Economy and Budgetary Control Commission submitted a report about the development of activism in Europe. This report aimed...

The World Bank Group’s (WBG) Secured Transactions and Asset Based Lending (ST/ABL) Team, a unit under the WBG Financial Inclusion, Infrastructure & Access Unit, has recently released a new...

The mandatory takeover bid has been widely explored by the legal scholarship, which has assessed the rationales of the mandatory bid rule (MBR) as well as its impact on the securities market...

Since 25 May, 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has been directly applicable in all EU member states. Our recently published book, FinTech and Data Privacy in Germany deals with the...

In 2019 crypto-asset activities moved squarely within the sights of the EU Commission and international standard-setting bodies and decisive regulatory action can be expected in the year ahead...

In Lloyd v Google [2019] EWCA Civ 1599 (Lloyd), the Court of Appeal held that a claimant can recover damages for infringement of data protection rights under section 13 of the Data Protection Act,...

The Financial Stability Board (FSB), established in the aftermath of the crisis by the G20, is an international entity that issues standards regarding global financial system. Since 2011, every...

Throughout history, economic activities have been fundamentally shaped by ideology. Scholars usually consider ideology as a set of ethical ideas, principles, or doctrines of a social movement,...

On 31 December 2019, China’s National Intellectual Property Administration (‘CNIPA’) officially announced the amendment of China’s Patent Examination Guidelines (hereafter ‘the Guidelines’). The...

The present regulatory orthodoxy in protecting individual investors from ‘bad’ investments is to create and enforce a robust disclosure regime. Many jurisdictions therefore require issuers of...