Corporate Governance and Social Responsibility

The course aims at providing students with a comprehensive description and analysis of the legal framework to discuss corporate governance and CSR issues

At the end of the course students will have: - a critical understanding of the fundamental questions currently debated in corporate law - an understanding of the state of the art of the CSR debate and of its main problems - a picture of the regulatory framework in the field and its evolutions - the capacity to critically analyse the relevant legal rules. Students will also acquire the ability to: - engage in legal reasoning and discussion - combine interdisciplinary knowledge - compare different legal systems and link legal solutions with underlying socio-economic factors - present and discuss different point of views on the course's subject matter