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  • Commercial Law
14 Oct 2019
6 min to read

Autonomous Vehicles, Software and Product Liability: Have the Law Commissions Missed an Opportunity?

Leah Grolman, Keble College

Whether the Consumer Protection Act 1987 (CPA) applies to software is a topic of considerable uncertainty. Since the 1980s practitioners and scholars have debated whether the European product...

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  • Financial Regulation
04 Oct 2019
4 min to read

Regulatory Technology: Introducing Evidence-Based and Data-Driven Classifications of RegTech Firms

Emmanuel Schizas | Hatim Hussain

Regulation, however necessary, is a cost to industry. RegTech, which encompasses uses of technology to automate or improve compliance and supervision, has emerged as a potential catalyst in recent...
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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
15 Jul 2019
5 min to read

Big Data and the Obsolescence of Consumer Credit Reports

Nikita Aggarwal, Brasenose College

The consumer credit reporting system performs three main functions. First, sharing data about consumers reduces the asymmetry of information in consumer credit markets, whereby credit providers...

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  • Commercial Law
15 May 2019
8 min to read

Summary of the AI in English Law Conference (18-19 March 2019)

Ewart Keep, Department of Education

The AI and English Law Launch Conference, hosted at the University of Oxford on the 18th-19th March, introduced themes, issues and questions on the potential and limitations of using artificial...

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  • Corporate Governance
17 Apr 2019

Corporate Management in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Martin Petrin

Law and technology-related research has arrived in the world of corporate law, as academics begin to tackle topics like artificial intelligence (AI), increasing automation and robots, Big Data, and...
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  • Commercial Law
  • Financial Regulation
11 Jun 2018

ICYMI - ‘New Frontiers: Technology, Finance and Regulation’ (5th Annual Conference of the Journal of Financial Regulation)

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From distributed ledgers and smart contracts, to data mining, algorithmic trading, and robo-advisors - new technologies are rapidly changing the face of the financial services industry. These...

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  • Commercial Law
05 May 2016

In Case You Don’t Want to Miss It: Professors Eidenmüller and Enriques to Give Their Inaugural Lectures in Oxford on June 9th.

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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...

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