Oxford Business Law Blog

Soft law instruments are increasingly prevalent in the area of restructuring and insolvency law. These instruments, all embodied in legally non-binding texts, often originate from so-called standard-...

What drives changes in corporate law? Certainly, corporate law tends to change toward increasing economic efficiency. In fact, corporate laws all over the world have converged in many important...

In a new paper, which was recently published in the Fordham International Law Journal, we discuss the legal framework for sovereign debt restructuring in the euro area—both de lege lata and de lege...

The US-China ‘trade war’ has captured headlines for more than a year now. One of the primary justifications given by the US government for this onslaught—including a WTO case, tariffs, export...

Challenger banks do not only challenge traditional banks but also the rules aimed at them. The detail, how banks have to verify the identity of new customers in different jurisdictions, shows how...

In my paper ‘Cartel Prohibition and Oligopoly Theory in the Age of Machine Learning’ I deal with the application of the cartel prohibition in the light of alleged legal gaps resulting from the surge...

On January 10, 2019, the Italian Government enacted the Business Distress and Insolvency Code (the Code). The Code was drafted taking into account the then existing draft of the recently adopted EU...

The twentieth anniversary of the important judgment of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in the Centros case of 9 March 1999 is an opportunity to reassess its impact on developments of freedom of...

Is common ownership the Doomsday Machine for the operation of free markets, competition and capitalism as we know it? An observer of cutting-edge law and economics literature may indeed tend to...

The Spanish Ministry of Economy has recently released a new bill that, among other aspects, proposes an amendment of the Spanish Companies Act to allow listed companies to adopt loyalty shares. These...

The European Business Law Review issues a call for papers to appear in a special Issue in second half of 2020. Our theme is 'Technological Transformations and European Business Law'. We are...

A new package of measures amending the existing regimes governing the cross-border distribution of funds is due to become law shortly: a Directive (the CBD Directive) will amend the existing regimes...

A recurring theme in banking crises is the public backlash against bank supervisors for their failure to take prompt and decisive action to unearth and correct problems of weak banks. The latest...

In the inaugural Global Cryptoasset Regulatory Landscape Study, a team of researchers at the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance, Judge Business School, have compared and contrasted various...

In February 2019 the Legislative Council of Japan (‘Hosei-shingi-kai’) submitted to the Minister of Justice its final report on the proposal for a reform of the Japanese Companies Act, in response to...

Institutional investors (that is, mutual funds, managed investment trusts, insurance companies, pension funds and alternative collective investment vehicles) steadily grow their share of publicly...