Oxford Business Law Blog

For the last several decades, organizational law has been predominantly viewed as a menu of default contractual clauses that, as with contracts more generally, can be adapted to the needs of each...

As shareholder litigation expands globally and increases in economic significance, so does the interest of parties in fighting over the rules that govern it and determine its scope. Sometimes this...

Consumers continually make small-dollar purchases through business-to-consumer (‘B2C’) Internet contracts, often across borders and usually without incident. Occasionally, however, the goods and...

In August 2014, the online transportation network Uber launched a new service named ‘UberPool,’ which allows Uber users to share the cost of a car ride with strangers traveling along a similar route...

While trading internationally used to be the reserve of large multinational corporations, the digital revolution has meant that SMEs are now born operating across borders and expect to be able to...

The loss suffered by buyers in a typical securities fraud class action may come from several distinct sources: lower expected return or a higher cost of capital or a one-time outflow of cash or a...

The enactment of the civil penalty regime in 1993 introduced a new approach to the enforcement of directors’ duties by statutory agencies in Australia. Prior to the 1993 reforms, enforcement of...

As Oscar Couwenberg and Stephen Lubben have demonstrated, foreign firms commonly file bankruptcy in the US in order to take advantage of Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code. But critics outside the US...

The Washington & Lee Law Review is publishing a symposium celebrating the scholarly careers of Professors Lyman Johnson and David Millon on the occasion of their respective retirements. My essay...

Since its launch in the early 2010s, China’s renminbi (‘RMB’) internationalization scheme (the ‘Scheme’) has made impressive progress internationally, as evidenced by IMF’s recent move to include RMB...

Can shareholders of a company override a management decision made by the board? In my paper I argue that the answer, at least since Automatic Self-Cleansing v Cuninghame [1906] 2 Ch 34 (CA), has been...

Japan went through a severe banking crisis in the 1990s that prompted the country to overhaul its existing framework through a number of reforms, incorporating new recovery and resolution instruments...

On March 29th 2017 the UK government declared its intention to leave the EU. In the next two years, the EU 27 and the UK will negotiate terms of Britain’s exit and its future relations with the EU...