Call for Papers: GLOBAL CORPORATE LAW SEMINAR SERIES

Call for Papers, Spring Term 2025

Global Corporate Law Seminar Series

Call for Papers

This is a call for papers for the Global Corporate Law Seminar Series’ Spring Term 2025.

We invite contributions to our online seminar series on global corporate law. Contributions should be located within the broad field of corporate law. Presentations on any topic within this field are welcome, including but not limited to:

• Corporate governance
• Mergers, acquisitions, and takeovers
• Securities regulation and compliance
• Corporate social responsibility
• Shareholder rights and protections
• Executive compensation
• Corporate finance and capital markets
• Comparative and international corporate law
• Emerging trends and innovations in corporate law

Format

The Global Corporate Law Seminar Series operates virtually. It will take place on Thursdays at 11am GMT.

To encourage participation around what can be in some jurisdictions politically sensitive topics and to protect your privacy, we do not record any online meetings.

Submissions

Please send a 250-word abstract and short CV to peter.underwood@auckland.ac.nz by 20 December 2025.

About the Global Corporate Law Seminar Series

The Global Corporate Law Seminar Series brings together those exploring company regulation from around the globe. In the present era of de-globalisation, policymakers have been either slow, reluctant or unwilling to recognise the importance of global exchanges. Following the disruption to supply chains in the wake of Brexit and now the conflict in Ukraine, there is now widespread acknowledgement that commerce is global in nature. Yet, the international commercial exchanges are not themselves new. Companies have long looked to new markets to expand, and entrepreneurs have built new customer bases overseas since time immemorial. Traders have often sought finance, agents or intermediaries to facilitate the sale of goods. Law influences the terms of commercial transactions at all levels.

It is organised by Dr Victoria Barnes (Queens University Belfast), Dr Jonathan Hardman (University of Edinburgh), Professor Eva Micheler (London School of Economics), Dr Peter Underwood (University of Auckland) and Professor Sally Wheeler (Birkbeck, University of London).