Oxford Business Law Blog

This article provides an overview of our current project, which aims to contribute to artificial intelligence (AI) research in law. We are preparing a standardised dataset of 100,000 US court cases...

There are important behavioural reasons why financial consumers tend to make suboptimal financial decisions, and financial firms are often in a position to exploit them. So far, however, well-meaning...

Within the academic community, the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has triggered a lively debate regarding whether data subjects have a “right to explanation” of automated decisions made...

Reporters are in the habit of looking at emerging technologies in isolation when describing their benefits, and that’s certainly the case with biometrics, blockchains, smart contracts, artificial...

A ‘black box’ can be described as a system in which the observable elements entail inputs and outputs, but without any understanding of its internal workings. In other words, the black box is opaque...

FinTech is rapidly transforming the financial services sector. Based on a broad range of different new technologies and innovations, it increasingly attracts the interest of national, global and...

Like with any new and hyped topic, the current discussion on smart contracts is rather complex and confusing. I believe that asking What, Who and Why can help to structure the debate and shed some...

How can artificial intelligence do business in the European Union’s internal market? My recently published paper shows how artificial intelligence could be granted legal personality under the laws of...

Due to its rapid technological development, artificial intelligence will enter corporate boardrooms in the very near future. My recent paper explores the interplay between artificial intelligence and...

Where once knowledge was power, data now rules. With huge processing capabilities (literally) in the palm of the hand, the internet and ‘smart’ devices are changing ways of working and democratising...

The traditional 2/20 fee structure of private investment funds has come increasingly under pressure in the last ten years. Typical factors considered to explain the pressure on fees in the industry...

Sophisticated computational techniques, known as machine-learning algorithms, increasingly underpin advances in business practices, from investment banking to product marketing and self-driving cars...

In a recent paper, ‘Company Law and Autonomous Systems: A Blueprint for Lawyers, Entrepreneurs, and Regulators’, which I co-authored with Shawn Bayern, Daniel Häusermann, Thomas D Grant, Richard...

When thinking about the “governance” of business organizations, the focus tends to fall on questions of responsibility and regulatory compliance, and the broader issue of how an organization and its...

Horst Eidenmüller, the Freshfields Professor of Commercial Law, and Luca Enriques, the Allen & Overy Professor of Corporate Law, will deliver their inaugural lectures at the Faculty of Law of the...