Oxford Business Law Blog

Over the last 12 months, there have been important developments in Australia in relation to climate change risks. Australian regulators have set a clear expectation that entities and their officers...

What do Lehman Brothers, Nortel Networks and Oi (Brazil) have in common, apart from the fact that they were or remain large multinational enterprise groups, which at some point went insolvent? They...

The Law Commission has published a consultation paper which makes provisional proposals for legislative reform to ensure that certain trade documents in electronic form have the same legal effect as...

US policy is increasingly being influenced by suspicion of links between Chinese companies and the Chinese party-state and military. These suspicions have been fueled by Xi Jinping’s economic...

When should the law respect the separate legal status of corporations or other limited liability entities owned by foreign governments? The question implicates familiar principles of organizational...

India’s Specific Relief Act, 1963 (SRA) bars the specific performance of contracts that are inherently determinable. And yet, no guidance as to what constitutes determinability is found either under...

Creditors often face significant information asymmetry when debtor companies seek to restructure their debts. In the United Kingdom, it is mandatory for debtor companies, seeking to invoke the courts...

Whenever someone is entrusted with advancing other people’s interests, enhancing the public good, or resolving conflicts between other people, there is a concern that instead of doing these things,...

Private law norms used to govern the interactions between banks and clients, credit rating agencies and investors, or between financial firms. Nowadays, however, these relationships have also become...

The United States Bankruptcy Code gives debtors wide discretion to reorganize in the venue of their choice. These lenient venue selection rules long have allowed bankruptcy courts in the District of...

Securities litigation is a virtually inevitable fact of life for any public company. Often, investors sue because the firm’s managers engaged in fraud that directly harmed the shareholders—say, by...

Some digital information intermediaries, such as Google and Facebook, enjoy significant and durable market power. Concerns regarding the anti-competitive effects of such power have largely focused on...

Accelerating developments are being observed in machine learning (ML) technology as the capacities for data capture and ever-increasing computer processing power have significantly improved. This is...

The contractarian theory of the corporation holds that a business corporation is a creature of contract and, more specifically, a nexus of incomplete contracts between directors, shareholders,...

The US Bankruptcy Code is the primary source of bankruptcy relief for debtors in the United States. But it is not the only source. Over the years, Congress has occasionally created bespoke bankruptcy...

The frustration (or ‘frustration of purpose’) doctrine excuses a party from its contractual obligations when an extraordinary event completely undermines its principal purpose in making the deal...

No area of company law seems to have generated greater controversy and uncertainty in recent times than corporate attribution. There have been at least seven decisions handed down in the last decade...