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The regulation of the workplace environment through international labour standards has been a task entrusted to the International Labour Organization (ILO) since its foundation in 1919. Today, as the...

The revolutionary potential of blockchains in driving legal change has been long promised but sluggish in delivery. Our forthcoming paper suggests that the mismatch between promise and reality stems...

The decision of the Singapore International Commercial Court in B2C2 Ltd v Quoine Pte Ltd [2019] will be of interest to Commonwealth lawyers as it grapples with novel questions such as the nature of...

In response to the sharp increase in campaigns by activist hedge funds in France and Europe generally, a French commission has conducted an extensive investigation and issued a carefully researched,...

Back in August, the Business Roundtable, which comprises the chief executive officers of America’s largest companies—with combined annual revenues of $7 trillion—updated its long-standing statement...

In my paper ‘The Road Towards Good Bankruptcy Governance: A Comparative Law and Economics Perspective’ (published in the conference proceedings booklet ‘Party-Autonomy and Third Party Protection in...

If you ask a hundred lawyers whether a software system or a robot can buy a house or file a lawsuit, all of them would be likely to answer ‘no.’ But because of the extreme flexibility of limited...

Italy has €2.4 trillion of debt. Should it ever find itself in pressing need of restructuring it, traditional avenues for sovereign restructurings could not be used because of a number of factors...

Just a month ago, the Federal Reserve pumped USD 75b into the financial markets on 15 September and the two following days. This extraordinary measure was taken to address a sudden spike in the so-...

Perhaps the most attractive aspect of the UK system is the ability of the Panel on Takeovers and Mergers (the Panel) to regulate the takeover landscape without interference from other public bodies...

Given the secular decline of real interest rates around the world, negative policy rates are likely to become a more prevalent feature of the financial landscape. Hence, whether and how negative...

Venture capital funds are widely recognised as performing a crucial intermediation role in the start-up sector, as they are capable of pooling capital from various investors, both individual and...

With the adoption this week of The UK Stewardship Code 2020, to accompany The UK Corporate Governance Code 2018, the UK Financial Reporting Council has promulgated corporate governance, stewardship...

Is there an impact of Brexit on corporate mobility in the form of companies incorporated in the United Kingdom making use of as cross-border mergers, conversions, divisions or seat transfers of SEs (...

From a functional law and economics perspective, the recent European restructuring directive (the ‘Directive’) brings both welcome innovations and multiple pitfalls. Its final text bears the traces...

In the past years, legal scholarship on technology matters has become ubiquitous. Topics such as self-driving cars, predictive policing or discriminatory profiling are only a few examples of trending...

Corporate bankruptcies constitute an important mechanism for the economy to purge itself of obsolete firms and allocate their constituent parts to more productive uses. This process of reallocation...

On Tuesday 15th October, the University of Oxford has launched its new interdisciplinary course in ‘Law and Computer Science’. This course, jointly offered by the Law Faculty (co-convenor Professor...