Oxford Business Law Blog

‘Africa Rising’ has been accompanied by significant legal challenges for many African governments. These have included costly, protracted creditor litigation against sovereign debtor states, poorly...

The world of EU corporate governance is in turmoil. Not so long ago, the protection of a company by appealing to national legislators was considered anathema for businesses. Apprehensiveness towards...

In our paper, we argue that the adoption of an economic ideology as a solution to a crisis in the form of legally binding obligations restricts the ability to pursue alternative courses of action and...

As seems to become clearer as time passes, there might not be too many alternatives for the UK’s financial sector if the UK wishes to gain access to the single market post-Brexit. In fact, the EU...

The use of dual class shares (shares with unequal voting rights) in initial public offerings (IPOs) allows for founders and insiders to maintain voting control of the company without having to own a...

Prima facie, the question raised appears provocative - even incongruous - for it is hard to imagine that a change of such magnitude could be made in a subtle manner and escape the attention of...

Claims that the Trump Administration has radically reduced regulation are simply not true. Ask nearly anyone to name President Donald J. Trump's most significant domestic policy accomplishments. They...

A question I am asked as frequently as any other is: 'Why didn’t anyone go to jail for the financial crisis?' There was huge suffering, sufficient misbehavior that the largest banks had to pay well...

An illiquid asset may lead to reduced returns and increased redemptions in a money-market mutual fund, where one of the major risks is the inability of the issuer of an instrument (commercial papers...

In the past years, several companies, such as Google, Linkedin, Facebook, and Alibaba, went public with dual-class share structures, that is, share structures that typically include two classes of...

How can artificial intelligence do business in the European Union’s internal market? My recently published paper shows how artificial intelligence could be granted legal personality under the laws of...

The Supreme Court of India, in its decision in Mobilox Innovations Private Limited v. Kirusa Software Private Limited (Mobilox), has brought about much needed clarity to the Insolvency and Bankruptcy...

Legal technology is starting to attract serious attention. Just a few years ago, when I was still in law school, talking to a lawyer or professor about legal tech was like pulling teeth. Maybe it was...

The European Parliament has adopted an important, but not binding, resolution on legitimate measures to protect whistleblowers acting in the public interest when disclosing confidential information...

Companies founded under the law of a given EU Member State might decide to re-incorporate under the law of another jurisdiction. It has been debated whether EU freedom of establishment also covers...

Where once knowledge was power, data now rules. With huge processing capabilities (literally) in the palm of the hand, the internet and ‘smart’ devices are changing ways of working and democratising...

On October 13, 2017, the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the European Commission (EC) voted in favor of margin rules equivalency, recognizing that margin regimes operating in the...

A recent decision of the Hungarian Curia (BH 2017.97) concerned an important question of European private international law: what is the effect of the opening of insolvency proceedings on...