8 February, 2023 - Roundtable: 'Conceptions of the Corporate Form: History, Theory & Consequence' - Melbourne Law School

Date and time: Wednesday 8 February 2023, 10.30am – 12.30 followed by lunch
Location: Melbourne Law School, 185 Pelham Street, Carlton

This event is scheduled to coincide with the Annual Meeting of the Society of Corporate Law Academics to be held from 5-7 February at Swinburne University, Melbourne.

As a side-event to the SCOLA conference, the Laureate Program in Global Corporations and International Law is hosting a roundtable discussion on the emergence and evolution of theoretical understandings of the corporate form.   The roundtable will be facilitated by Professor Sundhya Pahuja and Dr Tim Connor who, together with Dr Adil Hasan Khan, are at the very early stages of producing a book on this topic.  The book will likely take the form of a reader that will present and analyse extracts from key texts, curating them together with essays designed to set out and explain the plural conceptions of the corporate form, along with the context in which they emerged, examples of their application, and the differential consequences which flow from their application.  Sundhya and Tim will share ideas emerging from their reading so far and will invite participants to join the conversation about their own observations relating to how different conceptions of the corporate form have influenced legal developments in their fields of research, what practical consequences have resulted from that influence, and what theoretical debates in relation to the corporate form continue to interest and challenge them. We anticipate the subsequent discussion will be lively, thought-provoking and a lot of fun.

All SCOLA members interested in participating in this roundtable should send an email expressing their interest to LP-GCIL@unimelb.edu.au before 23 December 2022.

In the email, if you could include a couple of lines about your work and its connection to the concerns of the roundtable, that would be great.  Though if you want to come purely out of interest, you can just say that too.