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  • Commercial Law
29 Sep 2021
4 min to read

Defining Self-Driving Vehicles: Resolving the Ambiguity in Legislation

James Marson | Katy Ferris

Private vehicles with the ability to perform driving tasks typically undertaken by the person behind the wheel are increasing in their prevalence on public roads. These connected and autonomous...

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  • Commercial Law
  • Competition/ Antitrust
  • Financial Regulation
16 Sep 2021
4 min to read

AI or More? A Risk-based Approach to a Technology-based Society

Raimond Dufour | Josje Koehof | Tina van der Linden | Jan Smits

A lot has already been said about the EU draft regulation for Artificial Intelligence (the ‘Regulation’), published by the European Commission on 21 April 2021. What has however remained little...
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  • Commercial Law
10 Sep 2021
3 min to read

Digital Dispute Resolution

Horst Eidenmüller, St Hugh's College | Gerhard Wagner

Technological developments such as blockchain and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are not only disrupting the way we transact on markets and conclude contracts. They are also fundamentally changing the...
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  • Commercial Law
30 Apr 2021
3 min to read

Annotating English Judgments for AI: Structural and Practical Challenges

Zhaoyi Song

The fact that Chinese legal artificial intelligence researchers are able to annotate court judgments faster than their English peers sheds light on structural and practical challenges faced by legal...

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  • Corporate Governance
01 Apr 2021
4 min to read

Artificial Intelligence: A Roadblock in the Way of Compliance with the GDPR?

Samar Ashour

As more businesses seek to expand their reach by offering services across the globe, including to the European Union countries, the issue of compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (...

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  • Corporate Governance
16 Feb 2021
4 min to read

What Role for Tech committees in the Governance of Artificial Intelligence?

Maria Lillà Montagnani | Maria Lucia Passador

Corporations that are able to use Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the most suitable way are not only likely to overcome the current COVID-19 crisis more effectively, but also to succeed in the...
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  • Commercial Law
23 Dec 2020
4 min to read

Education for the Provision of Technologically Enhanced Legal Services

Václav Janeček, St Edmund Hall | Rebecca Williams, Pembroke College | Ewart Keep, Department of Education

Legal professionals increasingly rely on digital technologies when they provide legal services. The most advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) promise great advancements of legal...

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  • Corporate Governance
21 Oct 2020
5 min to read

How to Talk When a Machine is Listening: Corporate Disclosure in the Age of AI

Sean Cao | Wei Jiang | Baozhong Yang | Alan L Zhang

The annual report, like other regulatory filings, is more than a legal requirement; it provides an opportunity for public companies to communicate their financial health, promote their culture and...

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  • Competition/ Antitrust
  • Corporate Finance
  • Financial Regulation
10 Feb 2020
3 min to read

Move Fast and Break Things: Law, Technology, and the Problem of Speed

Simon Chesterman

Since computers entered into the mainstream in the 1960s, the efficiency with which data could be processed has raised regulatory questions. This is well understood with respect to privacy. Data that...

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  • Commercial Law
  • Corporate Finance
  • Financial Regulation
02 Dec 2019
2 min to read

Call for Papers: The Future of Banking and Finance in the Digital Era

Dora Neo | Sandra Booysen

The Centre for Banking & Finance Law (CBFL) at the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore is holding a conference on the Future of Banking and Finance in the Digital Era on 9 - 10 March...

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  • Commercial Law
20 Nov 2019
2 min to read

Big Data: Ethics and Law

Rainer Lenz

Almost every second, each one of us produces new data whenever we use mobile phones, laptops or cars, whenever we are recorded by public cameras, and whenever we stream music, use social media sites...

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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
14 Oct 2019
6 min to read

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

Leah Grolman

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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