Oxford Business Law Blog

In my recent article published in the Journal of Corporate Law Studies—‘British Social Enterprise Law’—I take a fresh look at the UK’s community interest company (CIC). In so doing, I make several...

The UK is examining proposals for ‘dual class share’ structures in premium listed companies on the London Stock Exchange. The Kalifa Review and Hill Review suggested this could be desirable, and the...

Given the increased involvement of corporations in a wide array of activities and practices across the globe, the corporate overregulation through a plethora of legal obligations at both national and...

The COVID-19 pandemic obviously caused massive disruption in the global economy, and both advanced economies and emerging economies/developing countries (EMDEs) alike experienced major economic...

A vibrant green bonds market is desirable for China because it promotes environmental protection and sustainability even amid rapid economic development. Over the past 40 years of reform, economic...

What does it mean to say a business association is a legal person? The question, phrased in different ways, has threaded through the law of business organizations for at least two centuries. When we...

The amount of capital in sustainable investing funds has risen in recent years, as investors’ awareness towards Environmental Social and Corporate Governance (‘ESG’) heightened related issues. This...

In the early hours of the morning of 14th June 2017 a fire broke out in one of the fourth-floor flats at a recently renovated tower block at Grenfell Tower, London, a social housing complex of almost...

The German Regional Court of Mannheim dealt in Case 2 O 34/19 dated 18 August 2020 with Daimler’s alleged infringement of Nokia’s Standard Essential Patents (‘SEPs’) and found that Daimler was using...

Corporate governance reforms in India have undergone a significant overhaul since the late 1990s. In 2000, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) introduced the first set of comprehensive...

In the United States and around the world, politicians, academics, and businesses often rail against burdensome and costly rules that they claim hamper innovation and economic growth. Sometimes these...

The OBLB will be on a summer break until 22 August. We look forward to receiving new submissions and supporting the exchange of ideas on business law upon our return. Thank you!

Over the past 15 months, policymakers around the globe have scrambled to intervene in response to an anticipated wave of business bankruptcies flowing from COVID-19 trading disruption. A range of...

As the first EU text regulating substantive insolvency law, the European Directive on Preventive Restructuring and Insolvency is a remarkable achievement towards the modernization of insolvency and...

The extraordinary rise of China’s economy has made understanding Chinese corporate governance an issue of global importance. A rich literature has developed analyzing the Chinese Communist Party’s (...

Corporate purpose is having a moment. Large corporations face pressure to behave in socially responsible ways, while entrepreneurs seek investors in social enterprises that pursue profits while...

Due to the international spread of COVID-19, an increasing number of businesses are in the vicinity of insolvency. Others, because of this pandemic, have already gone insolvent. Unfortunately, the...

Over the last decade, several leaks of confidential information shed a unique light on the tax avoidance strategies of multinational companies. In the impact assessment accompanying its proposal for...

The Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc. (TSE) revised Japan's Corporate Governance Code (Code) effective from 11 June 2021. The first version of the Code was compiled by TSE in March 2015. Originally the Code...

As part of efforts to mitigate the adverse economic effects of the pandemic since the outbreak of COVID-19, financial sector supervisory authorities have taken measures to restrict capital...