The 2022 Annual Conference of the Society of Corporate Law Academics was held on Sunday 3 July to Tuesday 5 July 2022 and hosted by the School of Law and Society, University of the Sunshine Coast, Sippy Downs, Queensland. This year’s conference, the first under the association’s new name emphasising its commitment to leading scholarship in corporate law across Australia, New Zealand and the region, was entitled 'Re: The corporation — re-thinking, re-forming, re-imagining'. It was, in part, a response to the plethora of calls in recent years to re-think, re-theorise, re-construct, re-configure, re-define, re-conceptualise, re-purpose, re-imagine and re-invent the corporation, corporate governance and corporate law. It invited papers to critically, conceptually and pragmatically engage with these calls, recognising that in each the prefix ‘re’ encapsulates a return, a do-over, a need to perform a task again, which extends at times to a process of literally re-forming the corporate form, imagining alternative possibilities and thinking it anew. A cross-section of papers, along with a review of a book launched at the conference, has been published in this special issue. These contributions re-imagine corporate harms and corporate criminal culpability, revisit the conceptual foundations of insider trading laws, re-think the dominance of the corporation by analysing cooperatives and Indigenous corporations and re-theorise the recognition of foreign corporations (and pseudo-corporations) and the emergence of the modern company.
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