Programme "Corporate purpose in theory, law and practice"

NB! All times are in CEST

08.45-09.00: Informal chatroom
 

09.00-09.30 – Keynote: Corporate purpose and the misleading shareholder vs stakeholder dichotomy

Beate Sjåfjell; co-author Jukka Mähönen
 

09.30-11.30 – Panel 1: Perspectives from around the world
Chair: Victoria Baumfield

Corporate purpose: Repurposed to the UN Sustainable Development Goals, Ellie Chapple; co-authors Linda Bennison and Kerrie Sadiq

Internalizing Socio-Economic and Environmental Costs as Corporate Purpose in Africa: Attempts and Proposal for Reforms, Nojeem Amodu; co-author Ibukun Iyiola-Omisore

Corporate purpose and directors’ duties in Australia, Tim Connor; co-author Andrew O'Beid

The interest of the company as key to the corporate purpose discussion. Historic concepts of German company law revisited, Anne-Christin Mittwoch

11.30-12.00: Break
 

12.00-14.00 – Panel 2: A case-study approach
Chair: Anne-Christin Mittwoch

The Corporate Purpose of State-Owned Enterprise: An Australian Perspective and Model for Application Elsewhere, Victoria Baumfield

Rethinking the purpose of banking, Kinanya Pijl

Could the growing phenomenon of Impact Investing provide a bridge for the gap between shareholder primacy and stakeholder governance?, Charlotte Villiers; co-author Ida Levine

The Special Purpose of Big Tech Companies, Blanaid Clarke

14.00-15.00: Lunch break
 

15.00-17.00 – Panel 3: Corporate law and theory
Chair: Kinanya Pijl

Should a Corporation Have a Purpose? Jill Fisch; co-author Steven Davidoff Solomon

Is it really up to corporate law (and academics) to shape the corporate purpose? Reassessing the impact of societal value transformation, Anne-Marie Weber-Elżanowska

The Nexus of Contracts Revisited: Delineating the Business, the Firm and the Legal Entity, Jonathan Hardman

Re-imagining Corporate Purpose: Feminist Legal Theory and Critical Race Theory Perspectives, Oludolapo Makinde
 

17.00-17.30: Open discussion
Chair: Beate Sjåfjell

Published Feb. 19, 2021 2:47 PM - Last modified Mar. 11, 2021 10:13 AM