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Tackling Vulnerabilities Through Corporate Duties, Jingchen Zhao
Tackling Vulnerabilities Through Corporate Duties, Jingchen Zhao
Catholic University Law Review
In this article, and drawing on the work of Fineman and others, we use a vulnerability lens as a device to emphasize the protection that could be offered to vulnerable parties in corporations through directors’ duties. By situating corporations in the vulnerability paradigm, we will discuss the limitations of formal equality and clarify the role played by corporate law. The increasingly blurred distinction between private law and public law will be discussed to rationalize the protection of the vulnerable through collective responsibility. Vulnerability theory mediates conflicts between calls for “regulatory state policies” and “individual responsibility” to supervise and monitor corporate …
Artificial Intelligence And Corporate Decisions: Fantasy, Reality Or Destiny, Jingchen Zhao
Artificial Intelligence And Corporate Decisions: Fantasy, Reality Or Destiny, Jingchen Zhao
Catholic University Law Review
Fueled by the ever-growing significance of big data and advances in AI, tasks in relation to decision-making in contemporary societies have been increasingly delegated to AI at different levels. While there is massive investment all over the world related to one side of AI, namely engineering, it is also important to create rules and competence related to humanistic AI and its effects on people and societies. This article aims to examine AI’s role in the boardroom and associated legal challenges, by exploring the interplay between AI and corporate law and governance. We observe that the delegation of board tasks to …