Indeed, they must be if humanity is to survive and flourish in the face of existential threats.[26] One reason is that the collective power of business to influence some of these large problems is at least equivalent to the power of nations or global assemblages of only governments and nonprofit organizations.[27] Extending my previous descriptive argument in Business Persons prescriptively, business firms are best understood as “real fictions” in society that are legally… [read post]

I am delighted to announce the publication of  "Next Generation Law: Data-Driven Governance and Accountability Based Regulatory Systems in the West, and Social Credit Regimes in China," Law &: Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal 28(1): 123-172 (2018).In the contemporary world, compliance systems and policing are quickly replacing law and the traditional methods of enforcement (either organic or positive law) as the framework through which collectives (the state, the… [read post]