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In a paper forthcoming in Public Law, I argue for a different understanding of the relationship between UK law and EU law than the one adopted by the Supreme Court in the Miller judgment. On the view...

To do well in financial services requires the right underpinnings to be in place. London has succeeded in getting the fundamentals right. Pragmatism in rulemaking, clarity in the law, predictability...

This post is the updated version of a contribution published on the Oxford Business Law Blog on 7 July 2016. Immediately after the EU referendum, a French commentator predicted that, after Brexit,...

To date, the response of the UK economy to the threat of Brexit has been quite benign. As this article is being written, there are gathering clouds in terms of consumer demand and industrial...

Although it could never attract as many tabloid headlines as other ‘negotiating Brexit’ issues, a successful resolution to questions about the future framework for recognition and enforcement of...

Introduction In this opinion piece, I argue that the Brexit negotiations need not be a zero or negative sum game, in which one side engages in claiming value to the detriment of the other. Instead,...

Brexit will have a direct impact on the United Kingdom’s ability to participate in the European Union’s external trade arrangements with third countries. This does not only include free trade...

On 14 March 2017, the Oxford Business Law Blog ('OBLB') marked its first anniversary. One year ago, we set out to create a leading and truly international forum for the exchange of ideas and...

After months of discussion on potential EU/UK access models for financial services, the launch of the Article 50 exit process on 29 March 2017 with Prime Minister May’s ‘Article 50 letter’ has...

Brexit will be anything but negligible for the organisation of European finance. It is estimated that up to 20 % (i.e. circa £ 30 bn) of the revenues of the City of London are related to services...

Many EU banks are in the midst of their Brexit planning. Obviously, their micro-level decisions are driven by what is happening in the Brexit negotiations on the macro level. Put more precisely,...

This post introduces the ‘Brexit Negotiations Series’, a series of posts based on contributions to the ‘Negotiating Brexit’ conference that took place in Oxford on 17 March 2017. Brexit is on its way...