Earlier this month, ALTeR joined forces with Juncture: Dialogues on Inclusive Capitalism and the Aotearoa Centre for Leadership and Governance to co-host the New Zealand launch of “Hidden Fallacies in Corporate Law and Financial Regulation”.
The panel examined whether our foundational assumptions about corporate and financial law remain fit for the digital age. With Professor Susan Watson (University of Auckland) facilitating, four distinguished scholars unpacked critical blind spots in how we think about markets and corporations:
- Professor Jennifer Hill (Monash University) on how agency theory reduces corporations to a nexus of contracts, denying their broader connection to society.
- Professor Claire A. Hill (University of Minnesota) on the false public-private divide and how assumptions get named when incentives are high enough
- Professor Saule T. Omarova (University of Pennsylvania) ALTeR’s First Visting Fellow, on the myth that financial innovation primarily serves the real economy
- Professor Alexandra Andhov (University of Auckland) on AI’s emerging risks for corporate disclosure and unprecedented tech power concentration
The evening brought together regulators, academics, students, and practitioners to examine complex issues that matter to society, exactly what universities do best.