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  • Business Law and the Net Zero Economy
  • Corporate Governance
21 Oct 2021
6 min to read

Business Law and the Transition to a Net Zero Carbon Economy – A Conference Report (Part 3)

Gabriel Acuna Csillag | Stepanyda Badovska

The final session was devoted to how climate change should be handled at the level of the board of directors. The session was moderated by Professor Luh Luh Lan (National University of Singapore and...

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  • Corporate Finance
  • Corporate Governance
20 Oct 2021
1 min to read

Celebrating Henry Hansmann’s Book: The Ownership of Enterprise

OBLB Editors

On Friday 29 October 2021, a hybrid conference organised by Columbia University and the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) will celebrate Professor Henry Hansmann’s seminal book ‘The...

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  • Business Law and the Net Zero Economy
  • Corporate Governance
20 Oct 2021
8 min to read

Business Law and the Transition to a Net Zero Carbon Economy – A Conference Report (Part 2)

Gabriel Acuna Csillag | Stepanyda Badovska

The second day’s session focused on the role of ESG investors in achieving net-zero goals. As stressed by the discussion chair, Professor Andreas Engert (Freie Universität Berlin and ECGI), although...
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  • Business Law and the Net Zero Economy
  • Corporate Governance
19 Oct 2021
5 min to read

Business Law and the Transition to a Net Zero Carbon Economy – A Conference Report (Part 1)

Gabriel Acuna Csillag | Stepanyda Badovska

The 5th Annual Oxford Business Law Blog Conference took place online in May 2021 to discuss the role of business law and the transition to a net zero carbon economy. A brief summary of all sessions...

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  • Financial Regulation
15 Oct 2021
4 min to read

The UK Version of the Bespoke Prudential Regime For Investment Firms Is Close to Completion: Are Firms in Scope Ready?

Mete Feridun

The European Union’s Investment Firm Directive (IFD) and the Investment Firm Regulation (IFR) came into force on 26 December 2019 and entered into effect on 26 June 2021. As discussed in an earlier...

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  • Brexit
  • Financial Regulation
12 Oct 2021
5 min to read

UK Financial Services Regulatory Priorities Emerging following the Pandemic and Brexit

Christopher Robinson | Piers Reynolds | Laura Feldman

The FCA’s Business Plan for 2021/2022 summarises the regulator’s priority areas following the pandemic and Brexit. We explore the prevailing issues featured in the plan, including protecting...

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  • Corporate Finance
  • Corporate Governance
  • Financial Regulation
07 Oct 2021
1 min to read

Symposium Notice: Imagining a World without Corporate Criminal Law

Mihailis E. Diamantis

‘Imagining a World Without Corporate Criminal Law’ is a symposium that will generate new ideas about the value of applying criminal sanctions to collective entities. Leading scholars representing...

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  • Commercial Law
07 Oct 2021
3 min to read

Emergency Arbitrator Awards: Valid & Enforceable Under the Indian Arbitration Act

Shivani Vij | Utsav Mitra

In a pro-arbitration decision granting urgent interim relief, the Indian Supreme Court, in its judgement handed down on August 6, 2021, has upheld an emergency arbitrator (EA) award of the Singapore...

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  • Commercial Law
  • Corporate Governance
06 Oct 2021
4 min to read

Lawyers on Boards—Going Beyond the ‘Legal’ Label

Jeffery Tan

Those who aspire to be on boards should downplay their legal credentials; the emphasis should instead be on one's skills and experience in business, management and leadership. In recent years, the...

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  • Commercial Law
30 Sep 2021
4 min to read

AI as an Inventor: What We Can Learn from the Australian DABUS Case

Eva Stanková, Faculty of Law

Let me begin with a disclaimer. I am no expert in Australian law. However, it seems to me that the Australian Federal Court (FCA) has made a series of missteps in the DABUS case (Thaler v...

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  • Financial Regulation
27 Sep 2021
2 min to read

Digital Platforms: A New Source of Financial System Interconnectedness

Elisabeth Noble

Financial institutions are increasingly relying on digital platforms as a means to market and distribute their products and services to customers, in line with the broader trend towards the...

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  • Corporate Finance
  • Corporate Governance
  • Financial Regulation
03 Sep 2021
8 min to read

Dual Class Shares Won’t Bring Innovative Enterprise. Job Security and Education Will.

Ewan McGaughey

The UK is examining proposals for ‘dual class share’ structures in premium listed companies on the London Stock Exchange. The Kalifa Review and Hill Review suggested this could be desirable, and the...

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  • COVID-19
  • Commercial Law
30 Jul 2021
2 min to read

Online Event Series: ‘Supporting Distressed Businesses in the COVID-19 Crisis’—The View from France

OBLB Editors

Over the past 15 months, policymakers around the globe have scrambled to intervene in response to an anticipated wave of business bankruptcies flowing from COVID-19 trading disruption. A range of...

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  • Commercial Law
08 Jun 2021
2 min to read

Law Commission’s Proposals for Electronic Trade Documents

Siobhan McKeering

The Law Commission has published a consultation paper which makes provisional proposals for legislative reform to ensure that certain trade documents in electronic form have the same legal effect as...
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  • Financial Regulation
07 May 2021
1 min to read

Announcing the 5th Oxford Business Law Blog Annual Conference on “Business Law and the Transition to a Net Zero Carbon Economy”

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The Oxford Business Law Blog is delighted to announce the 5th Oxford Business Law Blog Annual Conference: “Business Law and the Transition to a Net Zero Carbon Economy”, a three-day event to discuss...
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  • Corporate Finance
  • Corporate Governance
09 Apr 2021
4 min to read

EC Corporate Governance Initiative Series: Call for Reflection on Sustainable Corporate Governance

Alex Edmans | Luca Enriques, Faculty of Law | Steen Thomsen

Together with other ECGI Research Members, we have recently issued a Call for Reflection on Sustainable Corporate Governance to express our concerns over the risk that new legislation on EU companies...

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  • Financial Regulation
02 Apr 2021
4 min to read

‘Cash Back’ Rewards as Taxable Gross Income: The Curious Case of Konstantin Anikeev

Richard C. Gaffney Jr.

On February 23, 2021, the United States Tax Court issued a split decision on the question of whether ‘cash back’ rewards issued by credit card companies are taxable gross income. In Konstantin...

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  • Commercial Law
  • Corporate Finance
  • Financial Regulation
18 Mar 2021
3 min to read

Prospectus Liability and Initial Coin Offerings—Back to the Roots

Sebastian Mock

Initial coin offerings (ICOs) have been something like the flavour of the month in legal research. In the last years almost every law journal dealt extensively with this phenomenon. The most relevant...
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  • Brexit
  • Financial Regulation
16 Mar 2021
5 min to read

UK Listing Review (March 3, 2021)

Paul Davies QC (hon), Harris Manchester College

UK financial institutions are clearly suffering from Brexit. Passporting rights have gone, financial services are not dealt with to any significant degree by the UK/EU future relations deal, and the...

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  • Competition/ Antitrust
  • Corporate Governance
  • Financial Regulation
08 Mar 2021
5 min to read

The Attribution Game—Corporate Fault and Attribution of Criminal Responsibility

Samuel Walpole

On 31 August 2020, the Australian Law Reform Commission’s Final Report on Corporate Criminal Responsibility was tabled in the Australian Parliament. The ALRC made 20 recommendations to strengthen and...

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  • Commercial Law
  • Corporate Governance
05 Mar 2021
4 min to read

Update on Parent Company Liability: Okpabi v Shell Reinforces Risks for Companies with Offshore Subsidiaries

Quinn Emmanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP

The United Kingdom Supreme Court has released its much anticipated judgment in Okpabi v Royal Dutch Shell Plc. The Supreme Court unanimously overturned the Court of Appeal’s previous finding that the...

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