Pedro Schilling de Carvalho

@ucllaws.bsky.social @cambridgelaw.bsky.social

The article also reflects on how private and public enforcement can contribute to increasing such complementarity between regulatory requirements and company law.

The article considers how regulatory requirements interact with directors’ duties to define the perimeters of lawful corporate activity and discusses the role of regulation as a driver for learning and increased accountability, including via better risk management approaches.

The article considers how regulation that works within the existing pro-shareholder company law framework can contribute to achieving this objective, considering cases such as the UK Supreme Court’s decision in BTI v Sequana and its strong reaffirmation of shareholder primacy.

We argue that that general company law duties of directors and sustainability-related regulatory requirements can play a complementary role in accelerating the closer convergence between corporate actions and the interests of people and planet.

@eilisf.bsky.social and I have a new paper ‘Reconciling Shareholder Primacy and the Interests of People and Planet’ coming out in the Law Quarterly Review in 2025 and available in working paper form at dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...

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I am excited to be discussing entirely new work next week at the Geneva Graduate Institute International Law Colloquium.