Research Agenda for Corporate Environmental Law (en Inglés) - Colin Mackie

With contributions from world-leading experts on cutting-edge topics at the interface of corporate law and environmental law, this timely Research Agenda explores key concepts and emerging themes within this nascent field.

Incorporating a broad range of perspectives, backgrounds and methodological approaches, this Research Agenda outlines entry points for research on the legal tools needed to address the immense and urgent environmental threats the planet faces. Chapters investigate how corporate legal structures might be surmounted in order to instil the requisite behavioural change within enterprises, how the accountability of enterprises to their stakeholders might be increased through regulatory intervention and how the decision-making of business leaders could be aligned more closely with environmental priorities. Analyzing the complex regulatory conflicts that sit at the heart of corporate environmental law, expert contributors posit innovative solutions and present pathways for fascinating future research.

Students and scholars interested in company law, corporate governance, corporate insolvency law and environmental law and policy will find the ideas and issues this Research Agenda explores invaluable. Its astute and practical insights will also be of interest to legislators, regulators and policymakers.

With contributions from world-leading experts on cutting-edge topics at the interface of corporate law and environmental law, this timely Research Agenda explores key concepts and emerging themes within this nascent field.