Oxford Business Law Blog

The European Commission published its new Digital Finance Strategy on 24 September 2020 (DFS 2020). At the core of this strategy lie the legislative proposals for an EU regulatory framework on crypto...

The Review of the UK listing regime has previously been commented on by Professor Paul Davies in a very interesting OBLB post, summarising the recommendations of the Review and pointing out two of...

Private law norms used to govern the interactions between banks and clients, credit rating agencies and investors, or between financial firms. Nowadays, however, these relationships have also become...

Investors rely on information produced by intermediaries such as research analysts and auditors, or other legal sources such as company regulatory filings to obtain knowledge about offerings in...

Bank resolution is a cornerstone of the regulatory architecture that emerged in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. Its core aim is to orderly resolve distressed banks allocating losses to...

The rise of the Internet of Things (IoT) is set to add a new layer of complexity to the current practice of standard essential patents (SEPs) licensing. While until recently the debate centred on the...

Data breaches are increasingly common in our world. While computers and the Internet have created new opportunities to collect, store, and transmit information, they have also created new...

The United States Bankruptcy Code gives debtors wide discretion to reorganize in the venue of their choice. These lenient venue selection rules long have allowed bankruptcy courts in the District of...

In recent weeks, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has devoted considerable attention to Environmental, Social and Governance, or ESG, matters. It has requested public comment on climate...

The self-declared overall objective of the ‘Study on directors’ duties and sustainable corporate governance’ that Ernst and Young recently prepared for the European Commission DG Justice and...

To the surprise of many, the pandemic accelerated interest in ESG (Environment, Social and Governance) issues in 2020. As BlackRock pointed out in its last CEOs’ letter, ‘From January through...

Securities litigation is a virtually inevitable fact of life for any public company. Often, investors sue because the firm’s managers engaged in fraud that directly harmed the shareholders—say, by...

Some digital information intermediaries, such as Google and Facebook, enjoy significant and durable market power. Concerns regarding the anti-competitive effects of such power have largely focused on...

Over the past few years, the Chinese authorities have been increasingly concerned about the enormous economic power and influence of the country’s big tech companies, especially those operating in...

In an article forthcoming in the European Journal of Law & Economics, I argue that, even if we accept the argument made by Manne, Epstein and others that firms wishing to allow their employees to...

The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic and its devastating impact on public health and social and economic systems should force a rethink of public policies directed at the achievement of the United...

Screen scraping—any automated process to extract content from a website for use in another context—has found countless applications over the past two decades. It is now used for targeted advertising...

In January 2021, the price of Bitcoin rose from about $32,000 to $38,000 within a few hours, which corresponded to a $111 billion increase in market capitalization. This increase followed the...