Oxford Business Law Blog

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted normal life and triggered massive economic slowdowns. In the United States, consumer spending has dropped dramatically and unemployment temporarily hit the highest...

Investing in Environmental, Social, and Governance (‘ESG’) index funds is currently in vogue, now totaling around $250 billion. Yet, the US Department of Labor (‘DOL’) has taken a very negative...

Payment media, from gold coins to stablecoins, exist to be used, and in practice their use requires payment systems. In our paper ‘Central Bank Digital Currencies And Stablecoins – How Might They...

Research into legal reasoning has long been the exclusive purview of legal theorists, despite the central role that legal reasoning plays in real life. However, the recent surge of interest in legal...

A new Russian law ‘On digital financial assets, digital currency and amendments to certain laws of the Russian Federation’ dated July 31, 2020 (‘the Law’) introduces definitions of digital financial...

In an earnings conference call with investors in 2008, Edward J Shoen, chief executive officer and chairman of U-Haul International, Inc., lamented that the Avis Budget Group, Inc., its main...

With the recent outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been an unprecedented shock in worldwide supply and demand caused by the imposition of various lockdown measures to prevent human-to-human...

My recent paper titled ‘Law and Regulation for a Crypto-Market: Perpetuation or Innovation?’ looks at the importance of the law in a crypto-market and recognises that the market is a legal construct...

Disclosure laws aim to ensure the reduction of information asymmetries and the accuracy of share prices, but their success is predicated on enforcement. My recently published article (also available...

There is a widespread belief that the governance of banking supervision affects financial stability. Recent reforms that followed the Great Financial Crisis, as the establishment of the Single...

The structure of the EU financial services sector is changing as firms, including so-called BigTechs, increasingly leverage access to data and analytical capability, and innovative technologies to...

The permissibility of corporations pursuing purposes other than profit has been the subject of debate for a number of years. This debate has intensified recently with proposals from bodies such as...

The term ‘disruption’ has been used frequently, and rather indiscriminately, in recent years, particularly in legal writings on the many facets of digitalisation. In my recent paper, I argue that a...

The COVID-19 pandemic of 2020—as well as government orders to contain it—have prevented countless people, babysitters to basketball players, from fulfilling their contracts. Are all of these parties...

There are many things we do not know about the future of AI usage, including the ways it will impact corporations and their governance. Nevertheless, it is reasonable to believe that, like in many...

Most of the applications and uses of digital assets are improved and expanded with well-functioning and well-governed DAOs. My recent article evaluates the technical and internal governance solutions...