Oxford Business Law Blog

Methodology has not received sufficient attention in the field of comparative law. All too often, comparative legal scholars proceed on the assumption that placing regulatory structures from multiple...

Disclosure is an extremely valuable aspect of the current corporate law landscape, and scholars have been increasingly referring to it and engaging with in-depth discussions on the topic. The...

In my latest paper ‘Normative Goals in Merger Control’, I deal with the recent calls for extending the scope of merger appraisal to normative goals outside the realm of the consumer welfare paradigm...

Since computers entered into the mainstream in the 1960s, the efficiency with which data could be processed has raised regulatory questions. This is well understood with respect to privacy. Data that...

On October 2, 2019, a parliamentary mission from the French Finance, General Economy and Budgetary Control Commission submitted a report about the development of activism in Europe. This report aimed...

The mandatory takeover bid has been widely explored by the legal scholarship, which has assessed the rationales of the mandatory bid rule (MBR) as well as its impact on the securities market...

Since 25 May, 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has been directly applicable in all EU member states. Our recently published book, FinTech and Data Privacy in Germany deals with the...

Throughout history, economic activities have been fundamentally shaped by ideology. Scholars usually consider ideology as a set of ethical ideas, principles, or doctrines of a social movement,...

The present regulatory orthodoxy in protecting individual investors from ‘bad’ investments is to create and enforce a robust disclosure regime. Many jurisdictions therefore require issuers of...

Contract language is often recycled. The same words get reused in separate transactions between different parties. Generally speaking, the fact that different parties use the same boilerplate does...

Once nearly consigned to the junk heap of economic history, the state-owned enterprise (‘SOE’) has staged a remarkable comeback in the first decades of the twenty-first century. Much (though not all...

No private business would arrange its service delivery in such a way that the cost to customers knowingly exceeded the budgets of its target market. And no private business would knowingly allow its...

In a recent paper, I discuss tensions that have lately emerged between the Court of Justice of the European Union (‘CJEU’) and the German Federal Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht or...

Dual class capital structures have spread exponentially in recent years across much of the corporate world, as has previously been reported on this blog. Dual class listed companies today account for...

Many modern problems—money laundering, investor fraud, cryptocurrency abuses—cannot be addressed effectively by solitary agencies. Instead, cross-border and borderless problems require a coordinated...

Since the advent of Bitcoin in 2008, which until today remains the most widely used digital currency worldwide, digital currencies have gained in popularity. More recently, tokens based on different...

For almost two years, Argentina has been facing a severe economic recession and has not had the ability to access international capital markets. This has left Argentina vulnerable to a sovereign debt...

The criticisms made of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) are well known. SOEs are said to be generally inefficient as they rely on state patronage and do not compete fairly. Such inefficiency can also...