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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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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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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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  • 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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  • Financial Regulation
06 Aug 2019
4 min to read

Regulatory Technology: Eight Policy Recommendations

Eva Micheler | Johannes Jiang

Recent advances in computer science make it possible to develop technology to facilitate the delivery of regulatory requirements. This technology is referred to as ‘regulatory technology’ or ‘RegTech...
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  • Commercial Law
25 Jul 2019
2 min to read

How Shall We Regulate Autonomous Machines?

Horst Eidenmüller, St Hugh's College

Machines powered by artificial intelligence (AI) are on the rise. In many use cases, their performance today already exceeds human capabilities. Building on a prior OBLB post, I explore fundamental...

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  • Corporate Governance
05 Jun 2019
4 min to read

Dysfunctional Design and Autocratic Corporate Governance via AI

Alan Dignam

In mid 2017, having paid little attention to Artificial Intelligence (AI) beyond noticing that it had replaced “globalisation” as the focus of ambitious middle class conversation, my inbox started to...

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  • Commercial Law
  • Financial Regulation
16 Apr 2019

LSE Conference on Technology in Finance, Law and Regulation

Eva Micheler | Jon Danielsson

This conference explores the use of technology in financial markets from the perspectives of finance, law and regulation. The event covers payment systems, cryptocurrencies and property law, digital...

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  • Commercial Law
11 Feb 2019

Title 2.0: Discrimination Law in a Data Driven Society

Bryan Casey

More than a quarter century after civil rights activists pioneered America’s first ridesharing network during the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the connections between transportation, innovation, and...

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  • Commercial Law
  • Financial Regulation
21 Dec 2018

Video: Big Data and Discrimination

Talia Gillis | Jann Spiess

For many financial products, such as loans and insurance policies, companies distinguish between people based on their different risks and returns. However, the ability to distinguish between people...
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01 Nov 2018

Law and Autonomous Systems Series: Algorithmic Credit Scoring and the Regulation of Consumer Credit Markets

Nikita Aggarwal, Brasenose College

Recent advances in machine learning (ML) and Big Data techniques have enabled the development of more sophisticated, automated consumer credit scoring models—a trend referred to as ‘algorithmic...

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04 Sep 2018

How Blockchains Increase Artificial Responsibility

Adam Kolber

There has been an explosion of articles in the popular press about the dangers of artificial intelligence (‘AI’). Some fear that machines with human-like intelligence could someday develop goals at...

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  • Commercial Law
  • Competition/ Antitrust
10 Aug 2018

Robot Liability: How Does it Feel to be Hit by an ePerson?

Gerhard Wagner

The arrival of robots, autonomous software agents and so-called 'Internet of Things'-devices challenges existing liability systems. While the operation of legacy products was mostly in the hands of...

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  • Commercial Law
09 Jul 2018

Law and Autonomous Systems Series: What is a Smart Contract?

Philipp Paech

The term ‘smart contract’ refers to computer code that is designed automatically to execute contractual duties upon the occurrence of a trigger event. Referring to a 1997 paper by Szabo, the simple...
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  • Commercial Law
07 Jun 2018

Digital Personhood? The Status of Autonomous Software Agents in Private Law

Gunther Teubner

Autonomous software agents already today are attributed social identity and the ability to act under certain conditions. Due to action attribution in economic and social contexts, they have become...

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  • Commercial Law
01 Jun 2018

Law and Autonomous Systems Series: How to Resolve Smart Contract Disputes - Smart Arbitration as a Solution

Mateja Durovic

Recent developments in 'smart' digital technologies, in particular blockchain technology, are changing and challenging the framework in which business is conducted. A prominent feature of the...

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