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Welcome to the McGill Business Law Platform

summer academy 2023

McGill BLP SGI Transformative Business Law Summer Academy | 04 – 9/10 May 2025, Montréal

With an overall vision of how business law has an impact on both society and on other legal areas, the Professorship in Business Law serves as a liaison between the Faculty of Law and leading practitioners, in Montreal, in Canada and internationally.

Given the central role of business organizations and commerce in today’s world, McGill Law is committed to strengthening teaching, research and outreach in business law.

The McGill Business Law Platform, which the Professorship in Business Law has just launched, will become a hub of excellence in business law on par with McGill Law's other areas of recognized strengths such as human rights, comparative law and public policy.

Key parts of the McGill Business Law Platform are the Seminars in Business and Society, the McGill Business Meter Blog, and the McGill Transformative Business Law Academy.

On June 1st the Academy presented its 2023 Impact Paper, "Sustainable Transformation of Business and Finance: A Democratic Challenge in an Age of Climate Change and Artificial Intelligence". The paper provides policy recommendations that show a path for business law and finance to better account for climate justice, meaningful transparency, and algorithm accountability in the digital age.  

We thank all the faculty, fellows, and distinguished guests who have made the 2023 Transformative Business Law Summer Academy possible. A complete list is available here:

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The latest in the Business Law Meter

1 Dec 2022
The following blog post is based on a research project on the regulation of CSR and ESG, undertaken as part of the course in Business Associations at McGill’s Faculty of Law in the Fall 2022 semester. Members of the group included Sofia Watt Sjöström, Spencer Williams, Aidan Carpio-Lanthier, Soraia Afshar and Joey Carrier, the course was convened by Professor Peer Zumbansen.
9 Nov 2022
The business of emotion recognition is a lucrative one—but is it based on an unsound premise?
17 Oct 2022
Artificial intelligence (AI) will never be as good as human – it will be even better.
16 Oct 2022
In light of the growing number of publicly available text-to-image artificial intelligence systems, law and policy makers may soon be expected to address emerging questions regarding regulation, ethical accountability, and intellectual property claims. But from these broader societal concerns also emerges the plight of the individual artist, who bears not only the economic implications of this penchant towards the mass-production of art but also the existential threat of dispensability.
29 Sep 2022

The McGill Law Business Meter Blog is recruiting writers/editors for the 2022-2023 academic year. The Meter provides timely commentary on current developments in Canadian and transnational business law.

31 Aug 2022
In this blog post Professor Darren Rosenblum summarizes their recent paper with Professor Anat Alon-Beck and Judge Michal Agmon-Gonnen which describes how in United States institutional investors play a role in pressuring boards to improve board diversity. The authors argue boards should have a fiduciary duty to diversify as it would offer a practical way to advance inclusion while bolstering good governance.

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