Oxford Business Law Blog

While the surge in the stock of industrial robots operating worldwide has captured the attention of an increasing number of scholars, relatively few works have focussed on the legal factors that may...

Over the past decade, corporate social responsibility (CSR) has come to the forefront of attention both in the corporate environment and in the academic literature. According to the Global...

‘Imagining a World Without Corporate Criminal Law’ is a symposium that will generate new ideas about the value of applying criminal sanctions to collective entities. Leading scholars representing...

Those who aspire to be on boards should downplay their legal credentials; the emphasis should instead be on one's skills and experience in business, management and leadership. In recent years, the...

Over the past decade, the role of banking supervisors has become broader and more complex. The unconventional nature and growing scale of interventions—as seen again during the COVID-19 pandemic—have...

Some days ago, the World Bank discontinued the Doing Business (DB) report. For nearly twenty years, the DB’s annual report was one of the main drivers of business law reform worldwide, and a top data...

As the UK Parliament returns from its summer recess, new legislation will be considered in the insolvency space. One such piece of legislation which finished its third reading in the Commons and is...

The Italian 2020 Corporate Governance Code is one of the first European codes (together with the Spanish and the Dutch ones) that require—although on a comply or explain basis—listed companies to...

Providing small companies alternative ways to access capital has become especially important today, owing to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on small businesses. Equity Crowd-sourced Funding,...

The main goal of the recently published Technical Expert Stakeholder Group (TESG) Report is to start to set free EU Capital Markets from the cage of regulations suffocating them. As noted by the TESG...

With the deepening of the global financial markets and the expansion of multinational corporations worldwide, corporate governance through and by the board has remained a constant focus of regulatory...

Corporate scandals do not surprise the public anymore. But when they happen, they still involve some unexpected elements. This is also the case with the recent Carlos Ghosn and Nissan saga. Apart...

A recent incident involving Japanese conglomerate Toshiba bears important lessons for corporate governance in Japan, in particular shareholder activism and the possibility to acquire shares in...

The use of AI to drive efficiency and business improvement has increased significantly in the last five years across multiple sectors. While a decade ago AI might have been thought of primarily in...

In my recent article published in the Journal of Corporate Law Studies—‘British Social Enterprise Law’—I take a fresh look at the UK’s community interest company (CIC). In so doing, I make several...

The UK is examining proposals for ‘dual class share’ structures in premium listed companies on the London Stock Exchange. The Kalifa Review and Hill Review suggested this could be desirable, and the...

Given the increased involvement of corporations in a wide array of activities and practices across the globe, the corporate overregulation through a plethora of legal obligations at both national and...

What does it mean to say a business association is a legal person? The question, phrased in different ways, has threaded through the law of business organizations for at least two centuries. When we...

The amount of capital in sustainable investing funds has risen in recent years, as investors’ awareness towards Environmental Social and Corporate Governance (‘ESG’) heightened related issues. This...

In the early hours of the morning of 14th June 2017 a fire broke out in one of the fourth-floor flats at a recently renovated tower block at Grenfell Tower, London, a social housing complex of almost...

Corporate governance reforms in India have undergone a significant overhaul since the late 1990s. In 2000, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) introduced the first set of comprehensive...