Technology and Corporate Law

Edited by Andrew Godwin, Associate Professor, Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne, Australia, Pey Woan Lee, Professor of Law, Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management University, Singapore and Rosemary Teele Langford, Harold Ford Professor of Commercial Law, Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne, Australia

Contents:

Foreword viii
Acknowledgements xii
1 Introduction to Technology and Corporate Law 1
Andrew Godwin, Pey Woan Lee and Rosemary Teele Langford

PART I CORPORATE FORM
2 Viewing artificial persons in the AI age through the lens of
history 21
Susan Watson

PART II CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
3 The corporate board in an age of collaborative intelligence
and complex risk 43
Helen Bird and Natania Locke
4 Artificial intelligence and corporate boards: some ethical
implications 70
Vivienne Brand
5 Data explosion, disclosure and stepping stones 99
Rosemary Teele Langford
6 Recalibrating directors’ liabilities amidst technological flux 126
Pey Woan Lee and Susanna HS Leong

PART III GOVERNANCE DEMOCRATISATION
7 Shareholder empowerment in the digital age 152
Pearlie Koh
8 The first step of a long march: dual-class company
regulation and the experiment by the sci-tech and
innovation board in China 178
Charlie Xiao-chuan Weng, Shangxuan Wu and Zhaohui Shen
9 Corporate governance challenges in initial coin offerings 205
Aurelio Gurrea-Martínez and Nydia Remolina
10 Corporate governance implications of equity crowdfunding 227
Steve Kourabas

PART IV DATA ENHANCEMENTS AND
ALTERNATIVE MODELS FOR ‘CORPORATE’
GOVERNANCE
11 Corporate disclosure in a technology-enabled world 252
Andrew Godwin
12 Keep your ‘invisible hands’ to yourself: freeing corporate
governance from the cult of the ‘efficient market’ 277
David C Donald
13 The advent of decentralised autonomous business networks
in the disembodied economy: a discussion on why the
governance regimes of corporations and partnerships are
unsuitable to them 306
Moshood Abdussalam and Mia Rahim