Oxford Business Law Blog

Human rights are human rights. Granting them not only to human beings but also to corporations seems like a perversion—not only because corporations have neither body nor soul but also because...

One of the historical mysteries of modern UK company law was its sudden emergence. The passage of statutes in 1855 and 1856 transformed one of the strictest company law regimes into among Europe’s...

Corporations are neglected in private law theory. As we argue in ‘The Corporation as a Category in Private Law’, this is unfortunate. Corporations are objects of both private and public law, with...

Adam Winkler’s We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights (WW Norton & Co 2018) is provocative and important, and it is filled with stories documenting the Supreme Court...

The recent UK Parliamentary cross-party enquiry into the collapse of Carillion plc, the British multinational facilities management and construction services company makes interesting reading. Its...

The article ‘China’s “Corporatization Without Privatization” and the Late 19th Century Roots of a Stubborn Path Dependency’ analyzes the contemporary program of ‘corporatization without privatization...

On 20 June 2017, the General Assembly of the Organization of American States (‘OAS’) adopted a resolution (General Assembly Resolution 2906 (XLVII-0/17)) in which it requested the Inter-American...

For the last several decades, organizational law has been predominantly viewed as a menu of default contractual clauses that, as with contracts more generally, can be adapted to the needs of each...