Oxford Business Law Blog

The structure of the EU financial services sector is changing as firms, including so-called BigTechs, increasingly leverage access to data and analytical capability, and innovative technologies to...

The permissibility of corporations pursuing purposes other than profit has been the subject of debate for a number of years. This debate has intensified recently with proposals from bodies such as...

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...

There are many things we do not know about the future of AI usage, including the ways it will impact corporations and their governance. Nevertheless, it is reasonable to believe that, like in many...

Most of the applications and uses of digital assets are improved and expanded with well-functioning and well-governed DAOs. My recent article evaluates the technical and internal governance solutions...

When should specific performance be available for breach of contract? Civil law systems make it the primary remedy for breach, while the common law treats it as a humble exception with limited...

Italy is so far the only EU Member State to have introduced, in 2011, a specific anti-interlocking provision targeting personal ties among competing banking, insurance, and financial firms and groups...

Should corporate disputes be subject to mandatory arbitration? Over the last decade, the debate relating to implementing mandatory arbitration provisions in a firm’s articles or bylaws has been...

The recent publication of Peter Geoghegan's book on British politics highlights some of the severe malaise that afflicts the current British political set up. However, some of these problems, like...

The Covid-19 pandemic has prompted a wide range of responses from governments, central banks and regulatory agencies around the world as well as driving adaptations to corporate governance practices...

The government of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has, in recent years, made it clear that it wants to promote the UAE as a country in which environmental and social issues are prioritised. It has...

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...

Covid-19 is primarily a health and human crisis but is increasingly evolving also into an economic crisis. It is not yet a financial crisis; rather, so far the financial sector has been central to...

In the wake of financial crises or corporate scandals, at some point the issue of executive compensation invariably comes up. When companies are in distress and shareholders, stakeholders and society...

According to Lord Nicholls, it ‘is axiomatic … [that with] the anomalous exception of punitive damages, damages are compensatory’. Yet English law presently features several other categories of...

The European Commission has been looking at crowdfunding as an important alternative source of funding for SMEs (as part of its Capital Markets Union program and FinTech Action Plan) and has...

The Covid-19 pandemic has put to test the resilience of the entire Indian financial system. But even before the pandemic struck, Indian policymakers had been struggling with resolution of stressed...

In my latest research contribution, I analyse the regulatory framework of crowdfunding in Switzerland, the UK and the USA. After describing crowdfunding and its potential as an alternative means to...