Oxford Business Law Blog

This decision is the first major ruling where the Indian Supreme Court has been called upon to clarify the interpretation of the public policy exception after the passing of the 2015 Arbitration and...

Operational risk is a first-order concern for firm management and stakeholders. Stark examples of losses due to corporate operations include BP’s $17.2 billion loss in June 2010 following the...

A scene from a mafia movie could go like this. Big Tuna the collector goes to Frankie the shopkeeper to collect ‘protection fees’. Frankie demurs, ‘Boss, time is tough, please cut me some slack.’ Big...

In a recent paper, I examine the largely emasculated role of corporate boards of directors in effectively discharging their fiduciary obligations of promoting and protecting the interests especially...

In 2001 some 17,000 shareholders of Deutsche Telekom filed roughly 2,500 individual lawsuits as plaintiffs against the company at the Frankfurt trial court, involving more than 700 attorneys. The...

On 2 February 2017, Her Majesty’s Government published its long-awaited White Paper setting out Britain’s broad objectives in forthcoming Brexit negotiations with the EU. This blueprint towards a ‘...

I. The UK’s EEA Membership after Brexit In a previous article titled ‘The (Uncertain) Impact of Brexit on the United Kingdom’s Membership in the European Economic Area’, that appeared in issue 7 [...

In a new working paper, ‘The Renminbi and Systemic Risk’, I argue that the internationalization of China’s currency, the renminbi (‘RMB’), is arising in ways that depart considerably from historical...

The current debate over the future of the Financial Stability Oversight Council (and specifically, its SIFI designation power) is missing an important point. The question should not be whether the...

Antitrust authorities, no less than regulatory authorities, are vulnerable to capture by the collective interests of groups having the most salient stakes in antitrust law enforcement outcomes. As...

German law gives employees of a German corporation and of its subsidiaries the right of co-determination through elected employee representatives on the corporation's supervisory board. The law has...

When European banks were hit by financial calamity, a lack of alternative funding arrangements deepened the crisis. Stronger European capital markets would have changed that picture, because savers...

The Informal Company Law Expert Group established by the European Commission published a report on digitalisation in company law in March 2016. In its eGovernment Action Plan 2016-2020, the...

China is currently the world’s largest ECF market - market volume reached USD 948.26 million in 2015, exceeding that of both the US (USD 598.05 million) and the UK (USD 405.45 million). China also...

What is the role of the media and can it substitute for explicit legislation in some cases? In our paper, we present evidence that media pressure can propel corporate governance improvements...

Economies, like ecosystems, exhibit dynamic, complex behaviors resulting from the interaction of ‘organisms' inhabiting and altering their ‘environments.’ In economies, organisms and environments can...

Italian corporate law gives minority shareholders of public companies the right to appoint a member of the Board of Directors (‘BoD’) and the chairman of the Board of Statutory Auditors. In...