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DESCRIPTION:Professor of Business Law Peer Zumbansen welcomes Jonathan Pric
 e and Bernhard Maier for the first lecture in the Seminars in Business & S
 ociety series of 2021-2022 for a talk on ‘Big Data’\, Algorithmic Governan
 ce and Democracy.\n\nAbstract\n\nNever before has cyberspace been as relev
 ant or as controversial as today. Never before have traditional structures
  undergone a larger or faster transformation that can be witnessed current
 ly\, whether under public or private international law or domestic law.\n
 \nThis session will address some of the challenges faced by private and pu
 blic actors as a result of the exponential growth of ubiquitous cyberspace
  in the 20th century. It will discuss some recent developments in platform
  law and personality rights. It will deliver some critical thoughts on how
  the law has (or has not) adapted to the borderlessness of the Internet.\n
 \nFinally\, it will provide an introduction into the debate around whether
  national and international principles of competition adequately equipped 
 to rein in “Big Tech”. This and other topics will be designed to give the 
 audience a taste of the challenges faced by lawmakers and the subjects of 
 the law in the modern digital age\, challenges that are being turbocharged
  by the current pandemic.\n\nAbout the speakers\n\nJonathan Price is a bar
 rister at Doughty Street Chambers in London and a leading libel and privac
 y law specialist. Bernhard Maier is a Counsel at Signature\, a leading dis
 pute resolution boutique based in London and Paris. Bernhard’s practice fo
 cuses on public international law\, investment treaty arbitration and comm
 ercial disputes. Both Jonathan and Bernhard co-teach an LLM class in cyber
  law at King's College (London) with Penelope Nevill of 20 Essex Chambers.
 \n\nAbout the ɬ�﷬ Seminars in Business & Society series\n\nThe ɬ�﷬ S
 eminars in Business & Society Seminars address a broad audience and seek t
 o facilitate a new conversation between law and management\, sociology and
  environmental studies\, history and political science. Above all\, the se
 minars are concerned with building bridges between the academy and practic
 e.\n\nIn its first\, inaugural term 2021-2022\, the ɬ�﷬ Business & Soci
 ety Seminars shall provide a forum to reflect on the challenges to busines
 s and society against the background of the – still ongoing – pandemic. Th
 e crisis has put global connectivity and interdependence into sharp relief
 \, while it exposed the still too rare examples of effective transnational
  cooperation. Given the intensity of public debates around what might come
  “after COVID”\, the present moment presents an opportunity to explore pos
 sible avenues of learning from the crisis in order to move forward in a di
 fferent manner. Where the pandemic has provided a lens on the institutiona
 l changes that economic globalization has brought over the past 30 years\,
  it also prompts us to engage in new conversations about HOW the pandemic 
 can serve as a transformative experience.\n\nJust as the area of “business
  law” has never been limited to the narrow\, doctrinal confines of corpora
 te and commercial law\, a conversation about business and society must eng
 age the deeper connections between companies\, labour markets\, public pol
 icy and tax law\, on the one hand\, and connect to the vibrant public deba
 te around the relationship between and\, even more specifically\, the role
  and place of “business” in “society.”\n\nToday’s conversations about the 
 role and responsibilities of business enterprises reflect a growing public
  interest in questions of sustainability\, equality and diversity\, climat
 e change and overall a more future-oriented corporate governance reflectiv
 e of the corporation’s “purpose”. As these debates translate into legal di
 scourse\, the emerging and pressing issues concern corporate board composi
 tion\, board diversity and executive pay\, stakeholder representation and 
 stakeholder governance\, supply chain governance\, workers’ rights and ‘an
 ti-slavery law’\, board diversity and executive pay\, “corporate stewardsh
 ip”\, “environmental\, social and governance” (ESG)\, as well as the impac
 t of new technologies\, including artificial intelligence on business law.
 \n
DTSTART:20210922T170000Z
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LOCATION:https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/89842253314
SUMMARY:Cyberspace Law: ‘Big Data’\, Algorithmic Governance and Democracy
URL:/law/channels/event/cyberspace-law-big-data-algori
 thmic-governance-and-democracy-332248
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