About organizers

The Global Corporate Governance Colloquia (GCGC) is a global initiative to bring together the best research in law, economics, and finance relating to corporate governance at a yearly conference held at 12 leading universities in the Americas, Asia and Europe. The 12 hosting institutions are: 

Columbia University, Goethe University Frankfurt, Harvard University, Imperial College London, National University of Singapore, Peking University, Seoul National University, Stanford University, Swedish House of Finance, University of Oxford, University of Tokyo, and Yale University.

About the Conference

The aim of the conference series is to attract current research papers of the highest scholarly quality in the field of corporate governance. The conferences are primarily ‘academic to academic’ events with some participants from industry and the public sector including the practitioner partners of GCGC and other invited panelists. The practitioner partners are Zurich Insurance Group and Japan Exchange Group (JPX).

The sixth annual GCGC Conference will be hosted by Yale University on 11 – 12 June 2021. The Conference Committee is inviting researchers to submit recent papers on corporate governance (no maximum word count). In this context, corporate governance refers to the way in which private and public companies, enterprises, entrepreneurship, and financial institutions are governed and run in relation to their purpose, values, ownership, representation, accountability, financing, investment, performance, leadership, direction, management, employment, law, regulation, and taxation.

Papers will be selected for presentation from the submissions received. Ideally, these submissions should be based on new research that will not have been presented before. Each paper will be assigned a discussant and there will be ample time for questions and comments from the audience.

PAPER SELECTION PROCEDURE

A selection will be made by a Conference Committee from the papers that were submitted online before the deadline of 30 October 2020 (midnight CEST) using the form below. Researchers will be notified whether their paper has been accepted for the conference before 31 December 2020.

ORGANISATION

The conference will take place over two days. In addition to the research presentations, there will be two-panel discussions involving participants from industry and the public sector. The conference dinner will be held on the evening of 11 June. The organisers will contribute towards the cost of travel and provide up to three nights of hotel accommodation for the presenters. (Note: A separate workshop event on ‘The History of the Corporation’ is also being organised for 10 June 2021 to which GCGC presenters will be invited).

Questions may be directed to: admin@ecgi.org
This event is organised by the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) www.ecgi.global

Note: It is intended to convene this meeting physically, however, in the event that it becomes unviable, it will take place online.

Additional Information

– This event is strictly by invitation only and the number of places are limited to ensure quality engagement.
– Only one author will be invited to present a paper when selected, you may indicate who this is on the form.
– There are no formatting requirements for submissions.
– Full papers are preferred to extended abstracts, however, early drafts will be considered. There is a preference for fresh research so if a draft paper will be in good shape by the time of the conference (11 June 2021) please go ahead and submit it. By exception, extended abstracts may be accepted (particularly in the case of ECGI Fellows and Research members) but please include as much information as possible.

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COVID-19 and the Law: Disruption, Impact, and Legacy

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

2020-2021 Virtual Conference and Potential Publication

The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School and the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy at Yale Law School is pleased to announce a call for abstracts examining the COVID-19 pandemic from several innovative perspectives, but especially focusing on its relationship with health law and policy. The authors of selected papers will be invited to present their work at a virtual conference, to take place through a series of workshops. They may also be asked to present in an academic workshop virtually at one of the two law schools.

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected almost all aspects of life in the United States and around the world, disrupting the global economy as well as countless institutions. Health care—including through health law and policy—has been deeply impacted. Our aim is to better understand what COVID-19 can teach us about our health care system, public health policy, and law by critically reflecting on what changes the pandemic has already introduced alongside a cutting-edge consideration of what its legacy might be. We also aim to explore COVID’s impact on other areas of the law beyond health care.

We welcome submissions that consider the impact of COVID on: institutionalized populations not limited to the elderly and the incarcerated; intersections with sexism, ageing, disability, and racism; the science and treatment of infectious diseases; administrative law; and much more. In addition, how has the evolution of the pandemic been affected by our institutions, including the structure of our health care system and its attendant regulations? What changes have the legal responses to COVID introduced that are likely to remain for years or decades to come? We also welcome proposals that engage more broadly with COVID and other key areas of law and regulation. Contributors will address these as well as other issues reflecting on this unprecedented global public health crisis.

Call for Abstracts

Abstracts should focus on the fresh contributions that a submission will make, including by providing sketches of supporting arguments. The abstract should include (but not be limited to) a paragraph summarizing the issue that will be addressed and any currently contending views about its resolution.

Potential research areas of interest include: 

Please note that this list is not meant to be exclusive or exhaustive; it suggests potential avenues for inquiry. We encourage other contributions that engage how health law and policy have shaped the global pandemic and how the pandemic will shape health law and policy for years to come. Proposals should demonstrate a clear linkage to both aspects of the virtual conference and academic workshop: the COVID-19 pandemic and health policy/regulation/law. Papers that focus on ethics should include substantial discussion of policy implications. Successful abstracts will propose or outline an argument/position, rather than merely stating a topic.

In an effort to encourage interdisciplinary and international dialogue, we welcome submissions from legal scholars and lawyers, bioethicists, philosophers, clinicians, medical researchers, disability and civil rights advocates, public health practitioners, behavioural economists, government officials and staff, and others who have a meaningful contribution to make on this topic. We welcome philosophical and legal reflections from contributors across the world, but with a preference for contributions that are general or United States focused. We welcome submissions from advocacy organizations, think tanks, and others outside academia, but emphasize that this is a scholarly endeavour, and abstracts/papers will be held to academic standards of argumentation and support. As health law and policy centres, we are aware of the disproportionate burden that COVID-19 has on BIPOC individuals and communities. We welcome submissions from contributors who represent and/or highlight marginalized voices and experiences.

How to Participate

If you are interested in participating, please send a 1-page abstract of the paper you would plan to present (saved as “[LastName]_[FirstInitial]_COVID_Abstract.docx”) to health.law@yale.edu as soon as possible, but not later than  Friday, August 14, 2020. Please submit with a subject line reading “COVID Virtual Conference.” If your abstract is selected, your final paper of 5,000 words, including references, will be due on Friday, January 29, 2021, and you will be assigned a presentation slot for the conference/virtual workshops that will occur over the course of 2020-21.  All presenters must provide a full final draft in order to participate and presenters are expected to attend all but one of the virtual workshops. Co-authored papers must name a single presenter.

In the past, our Centers have successfully turned several of our conferences into journal issues and/or edited volumes (for example Petrie-Flom Center and Solomon Center). It is possible, although not guaranteed, that workshop presenters will publish their papers with us in an edited volume whose chapters will be limited to 5,000 words, including references. All presenters should plan on contributing their submission to any subsequent volume arising from the conference and should not submit an abstract if they anticipate this will be a problem. Previous participants have been able to publish their submissions in different formats in multiple venues, for example, both as a short book chapter and a longer law review article. However, the version that will be used for an edited volume should not have been published previously or be intended for separate publication. 

Questions

Please contact the Petrie-Flom Center or the Solomon Center with any questions: petrie-flom@law.harvard.edu or health.law@yale.edu. 

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