Oxford Business Law Blog

The international spread of the coronavirus is not only generating dramatic consequences from a social perspective but it is also heavily affecting the global economy. For this reason, governments,...

Modern societies need well-functioning retail financial markets to survive and thrive. The global financial crisis of 2007-2008 has shown that innovation in financial contract design can lead to...

In a move affirming its aggressive enforcement agenda, the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) yesterday blocked the proposed merger of two US companies, Sabre Corporation and Farelogix Inc,...

As of the time of this post, we are fighting an unprecedented battle against the Covid-19 pandemic. Its enormous human, political, social and economic costs dramatically call our attention to the...

Before the World Health Organization’s announcement that the outbreak of COVID‑19 constituted a global pandemic, 2019 witnessed a record for fund flows to socially responsible Environmental, Social...

Post-crisis developments in financial regulation have led to extensive expansion in the regulatory perimeter as well as the imposition of demanding standards for prudential regulation in conduct of...

In 2015, the Chinese Communist Party embarked on an unprecedented policy: writing itself into the corporate charters of many of the country’s largest and most powerful firms to influence their...

The Global Corporate Governance Colloquia (GCGC) and the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) have announced the 24-Hour Global Webinar ‘The COVID-19 Crisis and Its Aftermath: Corporate...

In a recent post on the OBLB, Horst Eidenmüller argues that it is (or might be) desirable that states put forward different regulatory responses—for example with respect to containment measures—to...

It has become fashionable in these troubled times to write about how the coronavirus (or Covid-19) situation shows that the writer’s favourite policies are the best ones. Trite as it may be, I don’t...

As technological innovation disrupts the financial sector, regulators across the world continue to explore and experiment with new approaches to regulating innovation. A regulatory sandbox is one of...

A decade after the birth of Bitcoin, its governance has become increasingly contentious to the extent that even certain well-known proponents of the cryptocurrency declared that Bitcoin governance is...

There is a dearth of British tech-companies listing on the London Stock Exchange (LSE), and the LSE lacks a large, innovative tech-company such as Google. The UK Government has pinpointed attracting...

The scale of disruption to contractual relationships caused by Covid-19 stands to be significant and widespread. In order to assist businesses analyse their position under English law contracts, we...

The Indian Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019 (Bill), introduced before the Indian Parliament, was subsequently referred to a joint parliamentary committee for review. The proposed legislation is a...

The 2007-09 financial crisis exposed numerous vulnerabilities of the financial system stemming from unprecedented (idiosyncratic) failures within individual financial institutions that collectively...

The COVID-19 (corona) virus has reached pandemic status. It currently spreads over the world and is expected to infect a majority of all people within the next month(s), according to health experts...