Oxford Business Law Blog

In bankruptcy, as in corporate law, valuation drives disputes. Prior bankruptcy scholarship points to disagreements about valuation and judicial valuation error as key drivers of Chapter 11 outcomes...

The present and the future generations depend on a sustainable society. Companies have a large impact on our society and play a large role in achieving sustainability goals. In this context, the role...

Security interests are the building blocks of modern, credit-based economies, and a key component in the quest to promote economic development and sustainable growth. They provide lenders with rights...

Around 200 years ago Sir William Blackstone, the great commentator of English common law, used the metaphor of a shingle to describe the effects of self-commitments. Professionals who place a shingle...

Recent developments in 'smart' digital technologies, in particular blockchain technology, are changing and challenging the framework in which business is conducted. A prominent feature of the...

It is a measure of the complexity of Economic and Monetary Union law that almost 10 years since the onset of the Euro crisis we do not yet have an answer to some of the most fundamental legal...

Trade in data is becoming crucial for economic growth in Europe. In this context, creating data ownership rights is one way to provide a clear legal framework for the emerging data economy. However,...

Addressing entrenched inequality is a pressing matter in India. It appears to acquire special urgency every five years, when a general election beckons. If 2013 saw the enactment of a mandatory...

This blog post tackles the problem of defining smart contracts. In particular, it reviews the existing definitions of smart contracts in some of the main laws enacted and scholarly articles published...

For decades, corporate law played a pivotal role in regulating corporations across the United States. Consequently, Delaware, the leading state of incorporation, and its courts played a central part...

This article provides an overview of our current project, which aims to contribute to artificial intelligence (AI) research in law. We are preparing a standardised dataset of 100,000 US court cases...

In its landmark Achmea case, the Court of Justice of the EU (“CJEU”) found the arbitration provision of the bilateral investment treaty (“BIT”) between the Netherlands and Slovakia to be incompatible...

Internationally driven secured transactions law reforms and globally harmonized prudential regulation set the normative premises sustaining the creation of credit in modern economies. Under the...

Bridgestone Licensing Services, Inc. (“Bridgestone Licensing”) and Bridgestone Americas, Inc. (“Bridgestone Americas”), which held rights in certain FIRESTONE and BRIDGESTONE trademarks through a...

An age-old question in international finance is that of what happens to a despotic government’s debts when the despots are vanquished and the good guys take over. Do the good guys have to pay the...

In April 2017, the European Commission launched a public consultation on conflict of laws rules for third-party effects of assignment of claims and established a group to advise on conflict of laws...

There are important behavioural reasons why financial consumers tend to make suboptimal financial decisions, and financial firms are often in a position to exploit them. So far, however, well-meaning...