Oxford Business Law Blog

Twenty years ago, the Court of Justice surprised observers when it handed down its Centros judgement. Until then, it was believed that the internal market was about opening borders and ensuring a...

Autonomous systems are entering our everyday lives. But what are they in legal terms? Are we just looking at sophisticated objects? Or should autonomous systems be treated as legal subjects, somewhat...

In 1992, the United States proposed that a multilateral convention on recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments be negotiated at the Hague Conference on Private International Law (‘HCCH’). 17...

With a range of green, social and sustainability investment opportunities now available within the conventional finance sector, responsible finance increasingly provides market participants with an...

Evaluating academic research output is a never-ending challenge. Such evaluation is an integral part of internal hiring, promotion, and tenure procedures, and of external funding decisions and...

Distributed ledger technology (DLT) and blockchain have attracted massive investment interest globally, which reflects their substantial transformative potential, especially in the financial sector...

Soft law instruments are increasingly prevalent in the area of restructuring and insolvency law. These instruments, all embodied in legally non-binding texts, often originate from so-called standard-...

In a new paper, which was recently published in the Fordham International Law Journal, we discuss the legal framework for sovereign debt restructuring in the euro area—both de lege lata and de lege...

The US-China ‘trade war’ has captured headlines for more than a year now. One of the primary justifications given by the US government for this onslaught—including a WTO case, tariffs, export...

On January 10, 2019, the Italian Government enacted the Business Distress and Insolvency Code (the Code). The Code was drafted taking into account the then existing draft of the recently adopted EU...

The European Business Law Review issues a call for papers to appear in a special Issue in second half of 2020. Our theme is 'Technological Transformations and European Business Law'. We are...

A new package of measures amending the existing regimes governing the cross-border distribution of funds is due to become law shortly: a Directive (the CBD Directive) will amend the existing regimes...

In the inaugural Global Cryptoasset Regulatory Landscape Study, a team of researchers at the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance, Judge Business School, have compared and contrasted various...

In February 2019 the Legislative Council of Japan (‘Hosei-shingi-kai’) submitted to the Minister of Justice its final report on the proposal for a reform of the Japanese Companies Act, in response to...

What is the (opportunity) cost of private benefits of control? Using dollar cost of corporate giving to measure private benefit of control, we show in our study ‘Private Benefits and Corporate...

It has now been twenty years since the European Court of Justice delivered its landmark Centros­ decision, followed by a string of cases similarly supportive of corporate mobility. In theory, these...

Do you remember the last time you ‘sold’ your personal data for some digital content or digital services? Google, Uber, Facebook, Netflix, Spotify—you name it. They all accept data as a ‘payment’...

Over-the-counter (‘OTC’) derivative transactions have been a feature of the financial markets for a number of decades, and the ISDA Master Agreement, which is used to govern OTC derivative...