Oxford Business Law Blog

Take a look at our full video interview with Prof Horst Eidenmüller about his empirical research on extreme sports sponsoring contracts and their link with inefficient risk-taking by the sponsored...

U.S. insurance regulation is ostensibly the primary domain of individual states, rather than the federal government. In practice, however, the most important and powerful entity in U.S. insurance...

Good governance is essential to the long-term sustainability of any company. EU banking and insurance prudential standards require regulated institutions to have a rigorous governance framework,...

Way before the 2008 financial crisis, high-profile cases against directors such as the Equitable Life Assurance Society v Bowley [2003] BCC 829, caused the realisation that directors are under...

The issue The full entry into force at the start of 2016 of the European Union’s Solvency II risk-based capital framework for insurance poses new challenges for supervisory cooperation in Europe...

U.S. District Judge Rosemary Collyer has struck down the Financial Stability Oversight Council’s (FSOC) designation of the insurer MetLife Inc. as a systemically important financial institution (SIFI...