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