Oxford Business Law Blog

The frustration (or ‘frustration of purpose’) doctrine excuses a party from its contractual obligations when an extraordinary event completely undermines its principal purpose in making the deal...

It is common for commodity traders to place orders over emails or telephone calls without executing formal contracts or, at the most, by executing skeletal contracts with boilerplate terms. Given the...

The term ‘disruption’ has been used frequently, and rather indiscriminately, in recent years, particularly in legal writings on the many facets of digitalisation. In my recent paper, I argue that a...

The COVID-19 pandemic of 2020—as well as government orders to contain it—have prevented countless people, babysitters to basketball players, from fulfilling their contracts. Are all of these parties...

Should traditional rules of contract law apply to transactions in markets for personal data involving consumers? The protection of consumer information in the United States (US) has followed a ‘...

There has been an explosion of articles in the popular press about the dangers of artificial intelligence (‘AI’). Some fear that machines with human-like intelligence could someday develop goals at...

India has experienced a dramatic increase in consumer Internet shopping due to its convenience and the myriad choices of the Internet. Further, India enjoys a rapidly developing economy, rising...

Contracts with states are an omnipresent feature of the global financial system, underlying all sovereign debt obligations. It may therefore come as a surprise that, until recently, the English...

The recent Kolassa ruling by the Court of Justice of the European Union (‘CJEU’) is of great significance. For the first time, the court has decided on the competent court in prospectus liability...