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Symposium: Is the Right of Ownership at Odds with the Circular Economy?
The circular economy is one in which biological and industrial materials are kept in circulation via recycling, reuse, refurbishment, composting, etc. This means that producers have to change the design of their products and make [...]
Symposium: How Can Contracts Contribute to Human Rights Protection in Global Value Chains?
Introduction Contracts are the central building blocks for many developments in the transnational sphere such as the global value chains (GVCs) where they become vehicles for distribution, participation, and equality, a role more far-reaching [...]
Symposium: Social Justice, Private Law and Europe(?) 2024-2044: Keeping the Hope Alive
As of this week, the TPL blog will start publishing a series of blog posts around the theme “Social Justice, Private Law and Europe(?) 2024-2044: Keeping the Hope Alive”, which will be at the centre [...]
Shareholder Primacy: A Promise Rather than a Barrier in Sustainability Transitions
In the United Kingdom (UK), institutional investors (pension funds and insurance companies) have sought to add climate-related shareholder proposals to the voting ballot at annual general meetings, with the aim to improve the sustainability strategy [...]
Three Models of Transformative Law
Transformative Law Encounters In a previous post on the Transformative Private Law Blog, Martijn Hesselink calls “the idea of transformative private law a little scary”. The intuitive reason for Hesselink to be scared seems [...]
Embedding checks and balances in steward ownership: The case of OpenAI
On November 17, OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman was fired by the board of directors of OpenAI. Speculations about what happened suggest that there was a separation in the company between the commercially-minded Altman on [...]
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