Oxford Business Law Blog

Accelerating developments are being observed in machine learning (ML) technology as the capacities for data capture and ever-increasing computer processing power have significantly improved. This is...

This post is based on a chapter in my forthcoming book, Regulating the Crypto-economy (Hart Publishing). A brief introduction to the book sets the context for the arguments made in the chapter...

In our recent article, entitled ‘Relief and Rescue During the Covid-19 Pandemic: Financial Regulatory Suspensions in the UK’ (Stanford International Policy Review) and its shorter version, entitled ‘...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and distributed ledger technology (DLT) are referred to as the new ‘Corporate Technologies’ or ‘CorpTech’ (Enriques and Zetzsche, 2019), currently watched in terms of...

This post summarises the introduction to a book collection on Decentralised Business Models edited by us and published by Routledge UK. This book draws together themes in business model developments...

We have recently been commissioned by Edward Elgar to curate a Research Handbook on Global Capital Markets. It is timely for a Research Handbook to take stock of the key developments in global...

Post-crisis developments in financial regulation have led to extensive expansion in the regulatory perimeter as well as the imposition of demanding standards for prudential regulation in conduct of...

The European Business Law Review issues a call for papers to appear in a special Issue in second half of 2020. Our theme is 'Technological Transformations and European Business Law'. We are...

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...