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...

The Indian Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) was enacted to fix an ailing system. Prior to the introduction of the law, it took years for a company to wind up, which often resulted in protracted...

Algorithmic trading—where two computer programmes deal directly with each other—is a commonplace of modern securities trading. However, in general such trading occurs under a framework contract which...

In recent years, a few illustrious bankruptcies in the maritime industry have revealed the legal issues that arise when maritime law and cross-border insolvency law come into conflict. Most notable...

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...

In a pro-arbitration decision granting urgent interim relief, the Indian Supreme Court, in its judgement handed down on August 6, 2021, has upheld an emergency arbitrator (EA) award of the Singapore...

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...

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...

Data permeates all aspects of modern societies. As a result of decades of digital transformation, inputs in digital form are created, gathered, and shared across the globe to support core societal...

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...

Most students of contract law devote little or no time to the question of how contracts are produced. There is no need to be concerned with the actual production process if transactional lawyers...

Let me begin with a disclaimer. I am no expert in Australian law. However, it seems to me that the Australian Federal Court (FCA) has made a series of missteps in the DABUS case (Thaler v...

Private vehicles with the ability to perform driving tasks typically undertaken by the person behind the wheel are increasing in their prevalence on public roads. These connected and autonomous...

The sanctity of contracts, a guiding principle of contract law in civil law systems, requires that all contracting parties be expected to meet their contractual obligations, thereby ensuring efficacy...

A lot has already been said about the EU draft regulation for Artificial Intelligence (the ‘Regulation’), published by the European Commission on 21 April 2021. What has however remained little...

Whether a guarantee issued by a guarantor in order to secure contractual obligations of a main debtor constitutes a regular suretyship guarantee, triggering liability for the guarantor (in accordance...

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...

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...

The COVID-19 pandemic obviously caused massive disruption in the global economy, and both advanced economies and emerging economies/developing countries (EMDEs) alike experienced major economic...