Oxford Business Law Blog

‘If you owe the bank $100, that is your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that is the bank’s problem’, J. Paul Getty reportedly said. This is largely true for banks’ relationship with their...

The securities-based regulation crowdfunding market in the United States has grown rapidly from $23 million of capital raised in 2016 to $244 million in 2020. Figure 1 below displays the number of...

My recent book, ‘Company Law: A Real Entity Theory’, advances a real entity theory of company law. I argue that the company is a legal entity allowing an organization or firm to act autonomously in...

Following the recommendations suggested by the Ibero-American Institute for Law and Finance, Ecuador implemented the most ambitious corporate law reforms observed in Latin America in the past decades...

In 2021, Bitcoin has reached a crucial inflection point. At its peak in November 2021, Bitcoin traded at more than $69,000 in a trillion-dollar market. The year also saw El Salvador’s historic...

On 27 October 2021, the UK Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy, HM Treasury, and HM Revenue & Customs launched a public consultation to seek views on the introduction of a...

The struggle to mitigate the effects of climate change will be the defining issue of this century. The extensive amount of climate change litigation already aimed at governments and corporations will...

Stock exchanges in the United States, most notably the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq, serve multiple roles at the same time. As regulators of their listed companies, they set various listing...

The topic of social purpose in business is seemingly everywhere these days. Should for-profit businesses pursue social goals alongside profit? What business law and management frameworks are...

The value of an investment is not necessarily merely about returns. A growing number of investors and other corporate stakeholders are calling for their money to go toward stocks or funds that are...

The United States government and judiciary have long been trying to understand the state-backed or state-influenced actions behind Chinese enterprises that threaten US businesses and economy. Amidst...

Related party transactions (RPTs) are a common corporate governance issue across many jurisdictions but remain hard to regulate. Allowing value-increasing RPTs while preventing the value-decreasing...

A paradigm shift is underway: The corporation—much reviled as a cost-externalizing, short-termist, inward-focused, politically manipulative machine—is undergoing a fundamental change. This is good...

Blockchain applications to decentralise finance (DeFi) are quickly developing and are gaining more and more traction in practice as well as in policy and academic debates. One of the most far-...

The United States has long had a uniquely broad rule of criminal liability that essentially parallels respondeat superior. This has offended doctrinal purists, but there is little likelihood of...

Tariq Fancy, BlackRock’s former sustainable investing chief, caused a splash last month when he claimed that sustainable investing is ‘a dangerous placebo that harms the public interest’, ‘like...