Oxford Business Law Blog

Our paper brings together two areas seemingly far apart in finance ─ the world of sustainable and social finance and the largely unregulated markets in initial coin offerings (ICOs). The UK...

In the decade after the global financial crisis 2007–09, financial regulation reforms have been extensive, led at the international level by the Basel Committee of the Bank for International...

In the face of scandals in the corporate sector, such as the collapse of BHS in 2016 and Carillion in 2018, UK policy-makers are responsive to introducing reforms in company law. Indeed, the Business...

A company’s pro-innovation needs are often met by the exploitation of its resources, widely defined. The resource-based theory of the firm provides immense empirical insights into how a firm’s...

The growth of financial technology is a marked trend, with Price Waterhouse Coopers observing fintech as ‘a dynamic segment at the intersection of the financial services and technology sectors where...

Drawing on the disconnect that currently exists between the social expectations associated with the corporate governance role of institutions and the institutions’ private interests, our article...

This post summarises our submission made in response to the UK Parliament Inquiry into corporate governance. The Inquiry is set in the context of public distaste for the ‘unacceptable face of...

Posted by Iris H-Y Chiu, co-Director, Centre for Ethics and Law, University College London. Following the result of the EU Referendum, legal academics have an important part to play in constructively...

My article entitled ‘European Shareholder Rights Directive Proposals: A Critical Analysis in Mapping with the UK Stewardship Code?’ will shortly be published in the ERA Forum, which is the flagship...

Our paper “From Shareholder Stewardship to Shareholder Duties: Is the Time Ripe?” (available here) examines the development of the law of shareholder stewardship from the soft UK Stewardship Code to...