Today’s lively debate around the ‘purpose’ of the business corporation and the pressure on management and investors to protect the environment, enhance diversity and address growing socio-economic, gender and racial inequality has its roots in a century-long dispute between competing views...

Already long before the 2019 Business Roundtable’s call to rethink the ‘purpose’ of the corporation, corporate law has been a forum for competing interests. The current debate around ‘the promise of stakeholder governance’ marks another important moment in the century+ long effort to...

This Chapter, forthcoming in The Routledge Handbook on Property, Law and Society, the maps the intertwinement, mutual construction, and dependence of “property” and “race” with each other. The discussion examines three dimensions of property which demonstrate the socio-cultural,...

Climate change requires the transition to a global economy supported by clean energy. Bioenergy already has a share of the global energy market, which is slated to increase dramatically over the next several decades. Combined with the potential for the deployment of the climate technology...

The paper revisits and elaborates on the improbable concept of “economic law” which originated in early twentieth-century debates in search of an legal political framework for a capitalist economy under democratic control. In analyzing its composite elements – “law” and “economic”...

In a digitalized world where States instrumentalise technology to isolate people and favour the spread of a “culture of helplessness” with respect to new global problems such as modern slavery in transnational supply chains, the paper aims at investigating the lobbyist relationship between...

This note sets out remarks for the current functioning and the need for reform of the OECD Employment Protection Legislation indicators. It discusses (1) the conceptual framework, including the methodology, of the OECD EPL Indicators, (2) the substance and coding of the indicators, including...

Auditors of global supply chains play an influential role in determining what it means for manufacturing facilities to comply with both transnational standards as well as national and international labor laws. They exercise this role at the interface between the local context of laborers in a...

As companies and subsidiaries act more often internationally, effective legal rules are needed to capture the liability and due diligence problems which go along with this development. The SRBI is an illustration of a national approach, using domestic legislation to solve the transnational...