Event Date
Livestreamed (link coming soon) | MCLE credits available | No registration fee
Presented by CBLS.
UC Berkeley Law Professor Stavros Gadinis will discuss his book Corporate Ordering (Cambridge University Press, 2026), which develops a framework for how corporations organize themselves to navigate socially contested decisions ahead of formal regulation. The book traces the institutional infrastructure that companies have built for rulemaking, executive action, and monitoring, drawing on case studies in ridesharing safety, climate sustainability, and AI governance. It proposes a social business judgment standard for evaluating board decisions in this contested terrain.
Gadinis is George R. Johnson Professor of Law at UC Berkeley and Faculty Director of the Berkeley Center for Law and Business. His research examines corporate governance, corporate law, and financial regulation, with attention to the institutional framework through which rules are made, enforced, and integrated into corporate practice. He works across the boundary between public regulation and private ordering, tracing how standards form, how companies build internal systems to comply with them, and how courts evaluate the resulting arrangements. His scholarship reaches financial risk, environmental and social responsibility, and emerging technology, in both domestic and international settings.
Lunch provided.