Corporate purpose debates, in large part theoretical, have captured academic and industry attention in the recent past. This paper will examine the specific cas

This post is co-authored with Leonid Sirota* One of India’s top law schools (which is also Kamalnath’s alma mater), NALSAR, has been in the news because its students signed a letter asking their un…

It has only been a few days since the chilling news about OpenAI and Anthorpic’s AI models getting out of their testing environments and hacking other companies. As the U.S. government attempt…

What do a corporate law scholar, a feminist international law scholar, and a gender and sexuality scholar have in common? Markets. In fact, taboo markets. I remember having seen some of Kim Krawiec…

Happy 4th of July! America holds an important place in my life, and in the life of the world and so we worry about it for where it is now and celebrate it for the good. I spent some time there. My …

Magic, enchantment, magical creatures, we need all of this in our lives. Where does it come from? What do we feel enchanted by? Some of us feel enchanted by fantasy fiction – I have just fini…

The question has been raised in the context of Ben & Jerry’s as well. There was discomfort when Unilever took over Ben & Jerry’s which had always had a social mission integrated…

Recently Narang posted about his research paper, which is co-authored by Vishnu Suresh on LinkedIn – the full paper is here – which notes that the rule for costs according the Indian Ar…

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I’ve often wondered why pop culture and media depictions of business and entrepreneurship are negative. In one of my articles titled ‘Pop Culture Depictions of Diversity in Business&#82…

I had occasion to revisit one of my favourite Shakespearean plays, Julius Caesar, when I attended a thought-provoking talk by Dr. Kate Flaherty (an ANU colleague!) at the National Library of Austra…

In a previous post, I have written about Anthorpic refusing to be bullied into accepting the Trump 2.0 regime’s diktats regarding how its technology can be used by the US Department of War. I…

I’ve written about gangster capitalism earlier – in short, we have seen instances of the Trump 2.0 regime bullying companies to do what they want. This bullying seems entirely divorced …

This is big news for the Artemis program.

On Feb. 11, 2026, film director Ruairí Robinson uploaded a 15-second video to his X...

Guest post by Joy Malala* In recent years the UK’s financial regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), has begun to target  finfluencers, (social media influencers who promote financial pro…

Pier Mario LUPINU* The digitisation of the retail finance sector has fundamentally altered the mechanism of consumption. In the pre-digital era, credit was a distinct financial product, separated f…

All good things have to come to an end right? Well not just yet. We might have a tail piece or two coming later. But for now, I will draw proceedings to a close. If you want to read all the posts i…

Madhuli Kango* The investment landscape has undergone a profound transformation. For decades, traditional financial advice was the exclusive domain of licensed human professionals, but that dominan…

Guest post by Mustafa Rajkotwala* Where manipulation now begins Market manipulation is still usually imagined as something that happens inside the market. A trade is placed, a price moves, and regu…

Guest post by Christina Sautter and Sergio Alberto Gramitto Ricci* Today, finfluencers dominate social media platforms like TikTok, YouTube, X, and Instagram, reaching millions of retail investors …

Guest post by Marina Nehme* As finfluencers dominate social media, regulating crowd sourced equity funding may become more challenging. Misinformation spread by inexperience finfluencers can lead t…

Guest post by Felix Pflücke* Financial influencers, or ‘finfluencers’, have become a structural feature of Europe’s digital financial ecosystem. They promote investment products, trading strategies…

Guest post by Rangika Palliyaarachchi* Anyone familiar with vampire lore knows that long before Damon and Stefan Salvatore, there was Klaus Mikaelson—just as long before today’s finfluencers …

Sue S. Guan* Finfluencers continue to change the investing landscape. Finfluencers (a) accelerate and shape demand for stocks along non-financial dimensions; (b) raise important questions as to the…

Anyone interested in corporate law, corporate governance, markets, and even just society should be interested in this new phenomenon of finfluencing. In a recent paper, I noted how finfluencers hav…

I’m still on holidays (clearly having a late start to the year) and looking forward to India’s Republic Day and Australia Day. In thinking about these days, as a corporate law academic,…

Happy 2026! I’m still on holidays and happen to be reading a very long decision about the business judgement rule in Australia (yes, it is not entirely fictional here), but I want to blog abo…

Should we change ‘corporate social responsibility’ or even ‘corporate responsibility’ to ‘corporate accountability’? This question was posed by one of the audien…

ALT: a picture of a dobby from harry potter that says dobby is free

Australia is set to bring in a ban on social media for those under sixteen. Much has been written about the enforceability of the ban with a recent AFR article talking about children already explor…

Abstract. While Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG) investing has gained traction in India, concerns of greenwashing have also become important, thus

Simon Chesterman (National University of Singapore (NUS) - Faculty of Law) has posted From Slaves to Synths? Superintelligence and the Evolution of Legal Personality on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This paper examines the evolving concept of legal personality through the lens of recent developments in artificial intelligence and the possible emergence of superintelligence. Legal systems have long been open to extending personhood to nonhuman entities, most prominently corporations, for instrumental or inherent reasons.

I wrote about gangster capitalism (where capitalism seems to be at the mercy of gangsters or a gangster to be precise) recently and gave details of the Trump government keeping a naughty and nice l…

Gangster capitalism is bad no matter which side of the political spectrum it comes from. The financial newspaper from my corner of the world has given us this phrase as an comment re Trump madness.…

Is virtue and sin really a matter of taste? Maybe. In the U.S. a lot of things that used to be called ESG is now just ‘woke’. There is an article in the Financial Times today saying tha…

While ESG investing has gained traction in India, concerns of greenwashing also became important, thus giving rise to regulations attempting to tackle this. How

As technology’s importance to companies grows, so does the need for what we call “digital governance:” leveraging technology within governance structures and managing the risks it presents. In a re…

If you are into space law, join us on Monday. Zoom details below. I will be talking about the many joys of having companies in the space sector (or something like that)!

Technology is changing the way companies function. Akshaya’s forthcoming book, Corporations, Technology, and the Law, attempts to chart the changes, possible legal responses, and way forward.

Gangster capitalism is bad no matter which side of the political spectrum it comes from. The financial newspaper from my corner of the world has given us this phrase as an comment re Trump madness.…

Can Any Nation So Conceived Long Endure?