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Decoding the Rights of Companies in the Technocene book cover

1st Edition

Decoding the Rights of Companies in the Technocene

Edited By Eduardo Gill-Pedro, Jaakko Salminen Copyright 2027
138 Pages
by Routledge

In this book, legal scholars from a range of disciplines examine the private commercial corporation as a bearer of rights and as the central actor in the global transformations that constitute the Technocene: a geological epoch brought about not by the actions of humans, individually or collectively, but by technological agency. Central to this agency is the modern company: a form of legal... Read more

Decoding the rights of companies in the Technocene: an introduction

Eduardo Gill-Pedro and Jaakko Salminen

 

1. Corporate personhood, corporate rights, and the contingency of corporate law

Christopher M. Bruner

 

2. Corporate rights and obligations—the perspective of real entity theory

Eva Micheler

 

3. Towards a theory on the international legal personality of corporations

Christiane Ahlborn

 

5. Shields and swords: the human rights of business enterprises and the boundaries of democracy

Daniel Augenstein

 

6. Rights of corporations in perspective—corporations as partial legal orders

Daniel Augenstein

 

7. Hiding the machine: stories, rights and the naturalisation of corporate technology

Eduardo Gill-Pedro

 

8. Gatekeepers under EU scrutiny: curtailing the freedom to conduct a business in digitalisation?

Annegret Engel

 

9. Rights as powers: the corporation’s right to property within the development and operation of international investment law

Christian Emilio Carli

 

10. International investment law and digital states: the case of Tuvalu

Soo-hyun Lee

 

11. Beyond the individual-company: from corporate social responsibilities to corporate social liability

John Quinn and Rónán Condon

12. A private law for the technocene: rights in a world of infinite knowledge

Jaakko Salminen

 

 

 

Biography

Eduardo Gill-Pedro is Associate Professor in EU law and Senior Lecturer in Law and AI at the Faculty of Law, Lund University. He is currently conducting a research project on AI governance, with a specific focus on the role of companies as agents of AI governance. Until 2024 he was a Ragnar Söderberg Senior Research Fellow, conducting a research project focused on the fundamental rights of companies in European law.

Jaakko Salminen is Senior Lecturer in Civil Law at the Faculty of Law, Uppsala University. He teaches and researches contract and tort law at the interface of global value chains. His current projects postulate a governance theory of private law and explore the role of private law for developing resilient production in face of global crises.

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