Oxford Business Law Blog

Ensuring sustainability is one of the grand challenges of our times, but nation-states are severely overstrained with this monumental task. Since states’ legislative power is limited, the suitable...

Compliance is a stunningly hot topic, with companies spending significant resources on it, and probably literally, dozens of conferences on the subject each week.[1] One curious feature of the...

While corporate social responsibility (CSR) was for a long time considered a voluntary matter, to be exercised by companies in the interests of stakeholders, it is increasingly acquiring legal status...

An age-old question in international finance is that of what happens to a despotic government’s debts when the despots are vanquished and the good guys take over. Do the good guys have to pay the...

This cross-country study argues that corporate social responsibility (CSR) has an internal as well as an external focus: although the internal aspect has been less carefully examined in the...

After each horrifying factory disaster, financial scandal and tax avoidance exposé, the question on everyone’s lips is: how do we make corporations act more responsibly? While there have been...

The Washington & Lee Law Review is publishing a symposium celebrating the scholarly careers of Professors Lyman Johnson and David Millon on the occasion of their respective retirements. My essay...

A vast literature on firms’ Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activity has emerged in recent years across a number of scholarly disciplines, including law, economics, management, accounting, and...

My forthcoming book chapter, Employee Participation in Corporate Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility, which I recently posted on SSRN, looks at the interaction of employee participation...