Sustainable finance and the public turn in corporate law

Virginia Harper Ho

Chapter 7 in A Research Agenda for Corporate Law, 2023, pp 121-139 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: For much of its history, corporate law in the United States has been diverging from its roots in public law in a way that has distanced the field and corporations themselves from questions of accountability beyond responsibility to advance the economic interests of shareholders. In recent years, however, shareholders have used the tools of corporate governance to advocate for a broader, more public vision of the corporation. These trends have emerged in response to rising awareness of the need for a sustainable finance transition and amid international efforts to encourage or require investors to take account of climate risk and other sustainability concerns. This chapter highlights how sustainable finance and the public turn in corporate law and practice are mutually reinforcing and identifies areas of research that may help better align corporate law with the demands of a sustainable finance transition.

Keywords: Business and Management; Economics and Finance; Law - Academic; Politics and Public Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.elgaronline.com/doi/10.4337/9781800880443.00014 (application/pdf)
Our link check indicates that this URL is bad, the error code is: 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:elg:eechap:20429_7

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.e-elgar.com

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Chapters from Edward Elgar Publishing
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Darrel McCalla ().