Oxford Business Law Blog

On March 24, 2021, the Competition Commission of India (‘CCI’) took suo moto cognizance and launched an investigation against WhatsApp and Facebook (‘Investigation Order’). This was a result of...

Climate change litigation in Europe has entered the realm of fundamental rights and constitutional law. The Supreme Court of the Netherlands (Hoge Raad der Nederlanden) has delivered an attention-...

The warming of the planet as a consequence of large-scale emissions of greenhouse gases poses a serious threat to mankind. The changing climate will displace large numbers of people who now live in...

Over the last 12 months, there have been important developments in Australia in relation to climate change risks. Australian regulators have set a clear expectation that entities and their officers...

Sustainability is currently one of the highest-ranking issues on the social and political agenda. As corporations have imposed important externalities on the environment, proposals to rein in their...

There is growing interest globally in ‘responsible investing,’ whereby institutional investors incorporate environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues into their investment processes. One of...

Recently, the Singapore Legal Opinion on Climate Change was launched; so was a White Paper that elaborates on the Opinion. I will first provide an overview of the Opinion and then I will discuss what...

Since its inception, the blockchain has been surrounded by an anti-legalistic whiff. Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous inventor of Bitcoin, hailed its ‘unstructured simplicity’. Even to this day,...

The latest securities fraud class action to find its way to the United States Supreme Court—Goldman Sachs v. Arkansas Teacher Retirement System (ATRS)—was argued on March 29 and was decided on June...

In June, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) revealed that, in addition to its ongoing work developing climate risk disclosure standards, it was considering ‘requirements for investment...

Less than a decade ago, ExxonMobil was the most valuable company in the world. Yet in June 2021, Engine No. 1—a newly launched impact hedge fund holding only 0.02% of Exxon’s shares—made history by...

In the midst of the ongoing Sino-US tensions, a remarkable flashpoint was the massive corporate scandal of Luckin Coffee (Luckin). Luckin, a Cayman Islands incorporated, NASDAQ-listed Chinese company...

In the recent 5th OBLB Annual Conference on ‘Business Law and the Transition to a Net Zero Carbon Economy’, the panel for Day Three (Topic: Climate Change in the Boardroom) took up the director’s...

The Dodd-Frank Act recently celebrated its 10th anniversary, with commentators, policymakers, and scholars joining the celebration by discussing the achievements of the sweeping post-crisis financial...

Following up on Brett McDonnell, Hari Osofsky, Jacqueline Peel and Anita Foerster’s thoughtful paper and recent OBLB contribution, this post highlights a number of issues it raises for corporate...

What do Lehman Brothers, Nortel Networks and Oi (Brazil) have in common, apart from the fact that they were or remain large multinational enterprise groups, which at some point went insolvent? They...

In their recent post ‘Corporate Carbon Reduction Pledges: Beyond Greenwashing’, John Armour, Luca Enriques & Thom Wetzer (AEW) open up a number of important issues worthy of further consideration...

At the heydays of the pandemic, many citizens claimed their right to physical integrity: that the state should protect them from the risk of infection, through a general curtailment of mobility and...