Oxford Business Law Blog

While the harmonisation of insolvency law in the European Union (EU) has been a top priority on the European institutions’ agenda in the last decade, this endeavour has been slow and has often met...

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 (...

Over the last decade, applications of distributed ledger technologies (DLT) and crypto-assets have been increasingly observed within the EU financial sector. However, regulatory fragmentation and...

In the modern digital world, where there is cybermoney, there are also cyberattackers. According to IBM, the finance and insurance sector has now been the single most attacked industry for four years...

The US bankruptcy system is regarded as the preeminent bankruptcy system in the world due to its ability to secure high creditor recovery rates, preserve value for stakeholders, and facilitate...

In July 2018, the European Parliament passed a resolution recommending to the Commission the creation of an optional EU-wide legal status for social enterprises. The Commission now has one year to...

The European Parliament has adopted an important, but not binding, resolution on legitimate measures to protect whistleblowers acting in the public interest when disclosing confidential information...

The European Commission has recently requested authorisation to launch negotiations to establish a permanent Multilateral Investment Court, which would hear investment disputes under existing and...

The UK’s decision to leave the Union has not prompted any other Member State to consider doing so. There is no significant demand amongst Member States for a large-scale reversal of the project of...

The Department of Law of the University of Cyprus is hosting an international conference on company law, which will be held on Saturday 7 October 2017. The title of the conference is ‘Cross-border...

To what extent is EU company law harmonized? In an essay that draws from my pre-EU-referendum inaugural lecture at Oxford (the audio of which can be accessed here) and was recently published in the...

Important if underwhelming, Erzberger v TUI AG (2017) C-566/15 has held national codetermination laws are not an ‘impediment to free movement of workers’ in the European Union. Codetermination laws,...

As shareholder litigation expands globally and increases in economic significance, so does the interest of parties in fighting over the rules that govern it and determine its scope. Sometimes this...

While trading internationally used to be the reserve of large multinational corporations, the digital revolution has meant that SMEs are now born operating across borders and expect to be able to...

For many large companies across Europe, 2017 marked the introduction of new non-financial reporting requirements addressing issues such as human rights and corruption for financial years beginning on...