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  • Commercial Law
17 Jul 2020
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COVID-19 and Beyond: How Blockchain Technology Can Serve a Critical Role in Pandemic Preparedness and Response

Jane Thomason | Urszula McCormack

In the early stages of COVID-19, rapid responses in targeted locations were appropriate. However, global systemic crisis considerations grew exponentially in tandem with the virus itself. Despite...

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  • Commercial Law
30 Jun 2020
5 min to read

Intellectual Property Justification for Artificial Intelligence

Reto Hilty | Jörg Hoffmann | Stefan Scheuerer

Rapid advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have tremendous implications for the economy as well as the society at large. Particularly machine learning as general-purpose technology has the...
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  • COVID-19
  • Commercial Law
24 Jun 2020
3 min to read

What is an Arbitration? Artificial Intelligence and the Vanishing Human Arbitrator

Horst Eidenmüller, St Hugh's College | Faidon Varesis

Within the universe of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), arbitration enjoys a prominent status. If the disputing parties need a binding decision, but do not want to go to court, arbitration is...

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  • Financial Regulation
18 Jun 2020
3 min to read

Discriminating Credit Algorithms

Talia Gillis

In 2017, Upstart, a US-based alternative lender using big data and machine learning to predict creditworthiness, received a No Action Letter from the US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)...

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  • M&A
08 May 2020
4 min to read

Explainable AI in M&A: Legal Incentives and Technical Challenges

Philipp Hacker

Advanced machine learning (ML) techniques, such as deep neural networks or random forests, are often said to be powerful, but opaque. However, a burgeoning field of computer science is committed to...

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  • Commercial Law
05 May 2020
3 min to read

Price Discrimination, Algorithmic Decision-making, and European Non-discrimination Law

Frederik Zuiderveen Borgesius

In a new paper, 'Price Discrimination, Algorithmic Decision-making, and European Non-discrimination Law' (to be found here), I examine the problem of discriminatory effects of algorithmic decision-...

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  • Commercial Law
04 May 2020
4 min to read

Who Pays for AI Injury?

Mihailis E. Diamantis

Robots and algorithms injure people every day. When such injuries occur, it is not always clear—as a matter of law or equity—who should pay. Since algorithms are not people and many of the most...
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  • Corporate Governance
30 Mar 2020
3 min to read

Corporate Technologies and the Tech Nirvana Fallacy

Luca Enriques, Faculty of Law | Dirk A. Zetzsche

Time and time again, corporate scandals remind us of the importance of the mechanisms aimed to ensure that agents within corporations perform their tasks and duties in line with the long-term...

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  • Financial Regulation
23 Mar 2020
5 min to read

How to See It Coming: Predicting Bank Distress with Machine Learning

Joel Suss | Henry Treitel

The great American baseball sage, Yogi Berra, is thought to have once remarked: ‘It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future’. That is certainly true, but thankfully the accelerating...

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  • Commercial Law
04 Mar 2020
4 min to read

WIPO and US Copyright Office Discuss How Copyright Laws Impact Artificial Intelligence Development

Andrés Izquierdo

On February 5, 2020, the US Copyright Office and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) co-sponsored the event ‘Copyright in the Age of Artificial Intelligence’ in Washington, DC. The...
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  • Financial Regulation
02 Mar 2020
3 min to read

Regulating AI in Finance: Putting the Human in the Loop

Dirk A. Zetzsche | Douglas W. Arner | Ross P. Buckley | Brian Tang

Finance is now one of the most globalized and digitized sectors of developed economies. It is also one of the most regulated, especially since the 2008 Global Financial Crisis. Globalization,...

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  • COVID-19
  • Corporate Governance
05 Feb 2020
3 min to read

Blockhain, AI and the Wuhan Coronavirus

Syren Johnstone

Among the many issues being raised in the course of the recent Wuhan coronavirus outbreak is the ability of charities to respond to crises and to fulfil their fiduciary and moral duty to apply...
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  • Commercial Law
23 Jan 2020
4 min to read

AI-Enabled Business Models in Legal Services: From Traditional Law Firms to Next-Generation Law Companies?

John Armour, Faculty of Law | Mari Sako, Saïd Business School

The application of artificial intelligence (AI) and related technologies is poised to transform the way value is created and captured in professional services. AI involves the use of computer systems...

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  • Corporate Governance
  • Financial Regulation
03 Dec 2019
3 min to read

Implications of Financial Artificial Intelligence

Tom Lin

Artificial intelligence has had a profound impact on finance. In the span of a few decades, it has made finance faster, more accessible, more profitable, and more efficient in many ways. Despite all...

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  • Commercial Law
25 Nov 2019
3 min to read

The promise and perils of InsurTech

Lin Lin | Christopher Chen

In recent years, the rise of financial technology (FinTech) has attracted much interest, in part, due to the rapid technological developments to the provision of financial services. New technological...
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  • Commercial Law
11 Nov 2019
3 min to read

Contracts Formed by Software: When Things Go Wrong

Vincent Ooi

The use of software in contract formation is likely to become increasingly pervasive in light of the digital economy. Consequently, software can also be expected to exhibit greater autonomy and take...

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  • Commercial Law
23 Oct 2019
4 min to read

Back to the Future: Waves of Legal Scholarship on Artificial Intelligence

Catalina Goanta | Gijs van Dijck | Gerasimos Spanakis

In the past years, legal scholarship on technology matters has become ubiquitous. Topics such as self-driving cars, predictive policing or discriminatory profiling are only a few examples of trending...

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  • Commercial Law
22 Oct 2019
1 min to read

The Oxford Law Faculty and the Department of Computer Science Join Forces to Deliver a New Interdisciplinary Course

Václav Janeček, St Edmund Hall

On Tuesday 15th October, the University of Oxford has launched its new interdisciplinary course in ‘Law and Computer Science’. This course, jointly offered by the Law Faculty (co-convenor Professor...
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  • M&A
26 Sep 2019
2 min to read

2018 Oxford Business Law Blog Round-Up: Top 20 Most Read Posts

OBLB Editors

Thanks to the quality of its posts, the OBLB attracts wide readership. In 2018 alone, the OBLB website was visited over 300,000 times, that is more than 25,000 monthly. Our readers came to our...

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  • Corporate Governance
23 Sep 2019
3 min to read

The Problem of Algorithmic Corporate Misconduct

Mihailis E. Diamantis

Technology will soon force broad changes in how we conceive of corporate liability. The law’s doctrines for evaluating corporate misconduct date from a time when human beings ran corporations. Today...

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  • Commercial Law
  • Corporate Governance
17 Sep 2019
1 min to read

Call for Proposals: Corporate & Organizational Decision-Making

Iris Wuisman | Jean-Pierre van der Rest | Jan Adriaanse | Reinout Vriesendorp

The Business & Liability Research Network (BLRN)—a partnership between the Company Law department and the Business Studies department of the Leiden Law School—is launching its call for proposals...

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