Oxford Business Law Blog

Currently accounting for over 70% of employment and some 40% of the value of exported goods at the EU level, services markets have received astonishingly little attention in the literature. The same...

Firms with strong corporate governance are often likened to democracies. Through their proposals and votes, shareholders can determine the broad direction of a company. However, shareholder...

Multiple, overlapping, and systemically interactive normative orders regulate commerce, trade, and finance. A diverse set of state and non-state actors produce this plurality of rules governing...

Under the new Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India has a statutory responsibility to collect, maintain, and disseminate data about the new insolvency and...

Remember your last online purchase? Chances are, the price you paid was not set by humans but rather by a software algorithm. Already in 2015, more than a third of the vendors on Amazon.com had...

The Digital Assets project, run through the Commercial Law Centre at Harris Manchester College, has produced an annotated English translation of the judgment of the Tokyo District Court in August...

More than a quarter century after civil rights activists pioneered America’s first ridesharing network during the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the connections between transportation, innovation, and...

India experienced a major structural change with the enactment of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (‘IBC’). On some measures, thelaw has been quite successful. For instance, the overall...

The first major legal instrument dealing with cross-border insolvencies in the European Union (EU) has been the European Insolvency Regulation (EIR 2000). It was adopted in 2000 and entered into...

Cross-border venture capital investments play an important role in the scaling up of high-growth companies. However, when these companies obtain foreign funding, typically from US investors, there is...

In our book The Choice Theory of Contracts (Cambridge, Amazon, SSRN), we develop a liberal theory of contract law. In three forthcoming essays, we reply to critics and show how and why autonomy must...

In ‘Choice Theory and the Economic Analysis of Contracts’ I offer an economist’s reaction to Hanoch Dagan and Michael Heller’s important book, ‘The Choice Theory of Contracts.’ In this post, I...

Our recently published book Intermediation and Beyond , edited by Louise Gullifer and Jennifer Payne, is the result of a project run by the Commercial Law Centre at Harris Manchester College. The...

The digitalisation of production and distribution processes means that the (‘first-copy’) costs to develop and launch a product are preponderant in comparison to the following costs to actually...

International commercial, financial, and other business transactions increasingly are conducted under ‘soft law’ rules—effectively, non-state rules that may be aspirational or reflect best practices...

In the field of shareholders’ voting rights, the protection of minority shareholders is an issue often raised with the need for corporate regulations to be inspired by democratic principles such as...

Judges, legislators, corporate practitioners, and scholars of business law all conduct their work based on some working conception of what “corporate law” is. Strangely, however, the question of what...

Take a look at our full video interview with Prof Horst Eidenmüller about his empirical research on extreme sports sponsoring contracts and their link with inefficient risk-taking by the sponsored...

Our article entitled ‘The Hidden Dimension of Business Bankruptcy in Australia’ is the first empirically-based analysis of business bankruptcy to be conducted in Australia. It has two principal...

According to long-standing and fundamental English corporate law principles, limited liability applies in the context of group companies to the same extent as it does in stand-alone entities. As a...

The question of how people can trade with each other independently of national laws is a question that has kept philosophers, economists and lawyers busy for centuries. In recent years, the...