Decoding the Rights of Companies in the Technocene

Eduardo Gill-Pedro is Associate Professor of EU law and Senior Lecturer in Law and AI at the Faculty of Law at Lund University, Sweden. He is currently conducting a research project on AI governance, with a specific focus on the role of companies as agents of AI governance. Until 2024 he was a Ragnar Söderberg Senior Research Fellow, conducting a research project focused on the fundamental rights of companies in European law.Jaakko Salminen is Associate Professor of and Senior Lecturer in Civil Law at the Faculty of Law at Uppsala University, Sweden. He teaches and researches contract and tort law at the interface of global value chains. His current projects postulate a governance theory of private law and explore the role of private law for developing resilient production in face of global crises.

• Decoding the rights of companies in the Technocene: an introduction 1. Corporate personhood, corporate rights, and the contingency of corporate law 2. Corporate rights and obligations—the perspective of real entity theory 3. Towards a theory on the international legal personality of corporations 5. Shields and swords: the human rights of business enterprises and the boundaries of democracy 6. Rights of corporations in perspective—corporations as partial legal orders 7. Hiding the machine: stories, rights and the naturalisation of corporate technology 8. Gatekeepers under EU scrutiny: curtailing the freedom to conduct a business in digitalisation? 9. Rights as powers: the corporation’s right to property within the development and operation of international investment law 10. International investment law and digital states: the case of Tuvalu 11. Beyond the individual-company: from corporate social responsibilities to corporate social liability 12. A private law for the technocene: rights in a world of infinite knowledge