Legal Conference: Navigating the New Corporate Landscape: Business, Sustainability and Security
Conference Notice: 10 – 11 June 2025
The corporate landscape is evolving rapidly. The corporate sustainability agenda continues to drive regulation and policy, but it is also facing significant backlashes. At the same time, rapid geopolitical shifts are eroding the rules-based international order. Trade barriers and market fragmentation reveal critical dependencies and introduce new and unpredictable responsibilities for a broad range of companies.
These developments pose practical challenges for managing companies and their risks and liabilities while also raising fundamental questions about the role of the corporate enterprise in society. In these circumstances it is topical to reassess the political and theoretical underpinnings of corporate regulation. The conference brings together scholars, policymakers and corporate representatives to share perspectives on the current corporate environment and to discuss the impact of the politicization of corporations on company law and corporate governance.
The conference is organized by the Faculty of Law of the University of Helsinki and the Hanken School of Economics in cooperation with the Nordic Corporate Governance Network.
Conference registration and the conference website open in January 2025 – the full conference program will follow.