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Court of Appeals Rejects Capital Allowances For Urenco Nuclear Waste Facility

26 January 2023

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Rohan Deshpande

Can Shareholders Save Capitalism?

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It Takes a Village to Hold Big Business Accountable

Over the past year we have witnessed unprecedented attempts to regulate bigness. In the US, a sweeping executive order committed the entire federal government to reining in big business. In...

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Unrules Can Unravel Business Regulations

In the United States and around the world, politicians, academics, and businesses often rail against burdensome and costly rules that they claim hamper innovation and economic growth. Sometimes these complaints...

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Cary Coglianese

Gabriel Scheffler

Daniel E. Walters

Does Stricter Disclosure Regulation of Private Meetings Improve the Information Environment?

Private meetings between management and investors occur worldwide and are generally held at corporate headquarters with invited investors and sell-side analysts (also known as site visits). Ng and Troianovski (WSJ,...

28 January 2021

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Robert M. Bowen

Importing Activists: Determinants and Consequences of Increased Cross-border Shareholder Activism

In a recent working paper, we look at what drives shareholder activism around the world, with a focus specifically on the role of corporate governance reforms.While shareholder activism...

19 January 2021

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Mark G. Maffett

Anya Nakhmurina

Douglas J. Skinner

The COVID-19 Crisis: Legal, Policy and Ethical Challenges: An Account

On the 5 June 2020, 45 speakers contributed to an Oxford University Law Faculty Webinar on ‘The COVID-19 Crisis: Legal, Policy and Ethical Challenges’. The webinar was organised by Anne...

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Using Nudges to Regulate New Technologies

In recent years, the rate of innovation has increased dramatically, and new technologies are being introduced in almost all markets around the globe. Disruptive innovations such as blockchain, cryptocurrencies, the...

21 February 2020

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Hadar Jabotinsky

The Invisible Hand, the Regulatory Touch or the Platform’s Iron Grip?

The ‘invisible hand’ has become an icon for an economic philosophy which assumes that a laissez-faire governmental policy will result in optimal social and financial outcomes as market forces will...

9 December 2019

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Regulating Fintech: The Case of Singapore

Financial Technology (FinTech) generally refers to new technologies that seek to improve and automate the delivery and use of financial services. More specifically, it has been used to describe technological...

18 November 2019

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