Oxford Business Law Blog

Distributed ledger technology (DLT) and blockchain have attracted massive investment interest globally, which reflects their substantial transformative potential, especially in the financial sector...

Why don’t we see more regulatory arbitrage? What constrains it? Regulatory arbitrage refers to structuring activity to take advantage of gaps or differences in regulations or laws. Examples include...

In mid 2017, having paid little attention to Artificial Intelligence (AI) beyond noticing that it had replaced “globalisation” as the focus of ambitious middle class conversation, my inbox started to...

Take a look at our full video interview with Professor Michal Gal about her research on 3D printing. Professor Gal focusses on the disruption 3D printing may cause to supply chains and market...

International commercial, financial, and other business transactions increasingly are conducted under ‘soft law’ rules—effectively, non-state rules that may be aspirational or reflect best practices...

2018 witnessed an eruption of auditing scandals around the globe, but the political reaction has been uniquely intense in the U.K. The Labour Party has promised to ‘break up’ the Big Four, and the...

Since 2015, a storm has raged in Germany in the worlds of cars and politics. The regulation of exhaust emission cleaning systems for diesel motors has not led to the attainment of targets for reduced...

Although various authorities in the US have repeatedly claimed that they do not wish to over-regulate cryptoassets or to stifle innovation in the space, overlapping regulations produced by a...

2018 is the first year in history when more than half of the world’s population is online. Since its dawn, the Internet has changed many aspects of daily life. The first wave of the Internet saw a...

Twenty years ago, the first of a series of tremendously influential papers on 'Law and Finance' was published by Rafael La Porta and his colleagues. By putting legal institutions at the centre of...

The European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) featured a Focus Panel on ‘Common Ownership: Antitrust Meets Corporate Governance’ at their Annual Members’ Meeting in Berlin, in May 2018. The...

Good governance is essential to the long-term sustainability of any company. EU banking and insurance prudential standards require regulated institutions to have a rigorous governance framework,...

Since its creation in 2003, the Enforcement Committee of the French Financial Market Authority (AMF) has sanctioned market players which violate the set of rules to which they are subject. Four main...

Many scholars have called for legal reform to end taxpayer-funded bailouts and crack down on anticompetitive practices by financial institutions. Failure to do so, in an era of fintech innovation,...

What explains the growing number of collisions and collaborations between law and entrepreneurs? How are startups responding? What are some of the implications of these developments? I explore these...

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

China is currently the world’s largest ECF market - market volume reached USD 948.26 million in 2015, exceeding that of both the US (USD 598.05 million) and the UK (USD 405.45 million). China also...