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‘If you owe the bank $100, that is your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that is the bank’s problem’, J. Paul Getty reportedly said. This is largely true for banks’ relationship with their...

The UCL Journal of Law and Jurisprudence is a law journal run by students of the UCL Faculty of Laws. The Journal is available through open access. The Editorial Board is pleased to announce an...

The securities-based regulation crowdfunding market in the United States has grown rapidly from $23 million of capital raised in 2016 to $244 million in 2020. Figure 1 below displays the number of...

My recent book, ‘Company Law: A Real Entity Theory’, advances a real entity theory of company law. I argue that the company is a legal entity allowing an organization or firm to act autonomously in...

Following the recommendations suggested by the Ibero-American Institute for Law and Finance, Ecuador implemented the most ambitious corporate law reforms observed in Latin America in the past decades...

Antitrust regulators around the world, including in the UK, have recently proposed changes to merger review policies and enforcement strategies that will likely lead to heightened scrutiny—and...

Securities regulation is one of the most harmonized fields of business law. Observing disclosures about cross-border transactions between public corporations traded in the United States and the...

In a new paper, ‘Selective Corporate Restructuring Strategy’, we engage with a fundamental, but under-theorized fact: that frequently in modern corporate restructuring only selected creditors are...

As of today, 144 jurisdictions have already fully adopted the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). Adding the number of jurisdictions that have not adopted but have converged their...

Over the coming months, years, and decades the digital transformation will raise questions as to whether we need new laws and regulations, should modify existing ones, or do nothing at all. Much of...

We wish all our readers and authors a happy and peaceful Holiday Season! The blog will resume publications on 5 January 2022. The OBLB Editors.

On 25 November 2021, the Law Commission published an Advice to Government on smart legal contracts. In this post, we provide a brief overview of our project and our conclusions. We also discuss, as...

In 2021, Bitcoin has reached a crucial inflection point. At its peak in November 2021, Bitcoin traded at more than $69,000 in a trillion-dollar market. The year also saw El Salvador’s historic...

In Lawmaking without Law: How Overreliance on Economics Fails Financial Regulation, we argue that lawmakers increasingly overrely on economists and economic scholarship when designing financial...

The foreign exchange market has been called ‘the world’s largest financial market where trillions are traded daily’. It is also a global financial market in which a variety of global financial...

On 27 October 2021, the UK Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy, HM Treasury, and HM Revenue & Customs launched a public consultation to seek views on the introduction of a...

The struggle to mitigate the effects of climate change will be the defining issue of this century. The extensive amount of climate change litigation already aimed at governments and corporations will...

Muddy Waters Capital LLC has recently answered the European Securities and Markets Authority’s (ESMA’s) consultation on the review of certain aspects of the EU Regulation on short selling and made...