Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-20-2026

Keywords

corporate law, law and artificial intelligence, corporate social responsibility, shareholder engagement, corporate culture

Abstract

Corporate law’s dynamism precludes bold predictions about its future. Instead, we set out to highlight principles relevant to its trajectory and frame looming, unresolved issues. In that vein, artificial intelligence and other digital technologies raise considerable new opportunities for directors to enhance their oversight and for shareholders to be better informed and make more meaningful use of their governance rights. At the same time, the potential for wide-scale automation of corporate activities via these technologies amplifies corporate power and resulting risks of harm, adding new urgency to past prescriptions for rethinking the relationship between corporate and other areas of law implicated by corporate activities. The notion that corporate law operates in isolation from these areas of law has become untenable. If corporate law can be reoriented to reinforce (rather than erode) surrounding legal regimes, we expect corporate law will be better placed to withstand and thrive amid the challenges to come.

Comments

"(2026) 71 Canadian Business Law Journal [forthcoming]"

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