Oxford Business Law Blog

The Covid-19 global pandemic is already having profound ramifications upon companies, the economy and society at large. Shareholders, stakeholders (employees, customers, NGOs and others) as well as...

The outbreak of COVID-19 and the subsequent drastic governmental measures to curb the contagion have affected many businesses, small and large. It may be too early to fully grasp its consequences and...

Beyond the extraordinary human toll it continues to exact, the coronavirus has thrown a pall of uncertainty over hundreds of corporate transactions that were signed and waiting to close at the...

Following news reports about executives selling shares in their corporations to avoid losses due to the pandemic, a new study takes a closer look at insider trades and finds that net insider...

Advanced machine learning (ML) techniques, such as deep neural networks or random forests, are often said to be powerful, but opaque. However, a burgeoning field of computer science is committed to...

Reforms after the financial crisis of 2007-09 promote the use of central counterparties to reduce counterparty risk. The central counterparty, also known as the clearinghouse, enters a trade both as...

To rebuild trust in businesses amidst concerns of excessive executive remuneration following the global financial crisis, ‘say on pay’ reforms have been introduced in many major jurisdictions, most...

Regulators and Parliaments around the world have responded to the COVID-19 epidemic by amending company law. This crisis legislation allows us to examine how, and to what effect, the corporate...

In a new paper, 'Price Discrimination, Algorithmic Decision-making, and European Non-discrimination Law' (to be found here), I examine the problem of discriminatory effects of algorithmic decision-...

Current policy discussions tend to minimize the role of bankruptcy law in mitigating the financial fallout from COVID-19. Scholars too are unsure about the merits of bankruptcy, especially Chapter 11...

Robots and algorithms injure people every day. When such injuries occur, it is not always clear—as a matter of law or equity—who should pay. Since algorithms are not people and many of the most...

‘Seriously?’, you might think. A paper about the history and future prospects of corporate governance amidst Covid-19? Why would two corporate law scholars think that their reflections on how in the...

Questions of corporate power have permeated corporate law scholarship for a long time. They have historically informed broader political discussions on the extent to which the concentration of...

Recent studies have linked the concentration of common shareholding in competing corporations (known as horizontal shareholdings) among the same group of minority shareholders with competition...

Globally, digitalization is expanding at an unprecedented pace. Rapid internet revolution has made multi-sided platforms (MSPs) ubiquitous in our modern economy. In India, ride sharing within urban...

In the wake of recent corporate governance scandals around the world, policymakers have called for increasing the independence of directors as well as their accountability to shareholders. One...

Small business assistance has been a central focus of the government’s response to the COVID-19 crisis, and for good reason. Small businesses underlie the vitality of our neighborhoods, spark...

Shareholder inspection rights allow a shareholder to access relevant documents and records of their company, so as to address the problem of information asymmetry inherent in the corporate form, and...

Our recent working paper titled ‘The Effect of Stock Exchange Demutualization on Liquidity and Transparency of Listed Firms’, addresses concerns raised by law and finance researchers, investors, and...

As with many countries trying to handle the current COVID-19 pandemic (on which see already this comparative analysis by Aurelio Gurrea-Martínez), and as but one measure to limit the economic fall-...