Alan Dignam
Script error: No such module "AfC submission catcheck".
| Alan Dignam | |
|---|---|
| Professor Alan Dignam.jpgProfessor Alan Dignam.jpg | |
| Born | Dublin, Ireland. |
| 🏳️ Nationality | Irish. |
| 🏫 Education | Swords BNS and Rosmini Community College. |
| 🎓 Alma mater | Trinity College Dublin, Leeds Polytechnic and Dublin City University. |
| 💼 Occupation | |
| Honours | Queen's Counsel Honoris Causa and Fredrick I Medal. |
Alan Dignam is an Irish academic lawyer who writes on corporate theory. He is Professor of Law at the school of law at Queen Mary University of London. In December 2020 he was honoured for his contribution to the law by Queen Elizabeth II who appointed him Queen's Counsel Honoris Causa.[1]
His work spans the study of Corporations and Human Rights, the Globalization of Corporate Governance, Corporate Disregard (Veil piercing etc) and the governance of Artificial Intelligence. Along with David Allen he produced one of the first books analysing the application of Human Rights instruments to Corporations.[2] Subsequently, working with Michael Galanis, in The Globalization of Corporate Governance (2009) they used institutional analysis to examine the convergence of corporate governance in the UK, the US and Germany and argued, contrary to convergence theories, that globalization was in retreat and that it would be replaced with rising nationalist economic agendas.[3] Their work has been noted for having "considerable resonance in the context of the rapidly industrialising BRIC countries or the financial powerhouse states of south-east Asia, where conflicts between globalization and indigenous institutions pose potentially seismic political and cultural repercussions."[4]
Since 2014 he has been working on a large scale empirical project with Peter Oh examining corporate disregard (Veil piercing etc) in the UK over the course of the 19th, 20th and 21st Centuries. They have argued that despite multiple attempts by the senior UK judiciary, no overarching legal principles seem to be present and that the context of the legal action such as Criminal, Tort, and Contract, seems to weigh heavily on the outcome.[5] In 2016 he became a member of a Welcome Foundation funded academic network exploring the impact of Artificial Intelligence on Corporations where he has argued for Artificial Intelligence to be regulated and licenced on the same basis as pharmaceutical products.[6] He has been an advisor to Amnesty International's Business Group on a number of corporate accountability campaigns and in 2012/13 worked with Amnesty and Menagerie Theatre Company to bring corporate human rights abuse to public attention through a large scale public engagement theatre project called Human Rights! Bloody Human Rights!
References[edit]
- ↑ UK Ministry of Justice, 17 December 2020, New Queen’s Counsel welcomed by Lord Chancellor https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-queen-s-counsel-welcomed-by-lord-chancellor
- ↑ Dignam, A. & Allen D. (2000) Company Law and the Human Rights Act 1998 (Butterworths xlii + 360p) https://www.worldcat.org/title/company-law-and-the-human-rights-act-1998/oclc/45354853
- ↑ Dignam, A & Galanis, M. (2009) The Globalization of Corporate Governance, (Ashgate, xxiv +458p, Taylor & Francis paperback 2016) https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_Globalization_of_Corporate_Governanc/Q4W1CwAAQBAJ?hl=en
- ↑ Marc Moore, The Modern Law Review (2011) 74(6) 977-981, https://www.jstor.org/stable/41302643
- ↑ Dignam, Alan J. and Oh, Peter B., Disregarding the Salomon Principle: An Empirical Analysis, 1855-2014 (March 5, 2019). 39 Oxford J. Legal Stud. 16-49 (2019) https://doi.org/10.1093/ojls/gqy027 and Dignam, A., & Oh, P. (2020). Rationalising Corporate Disregard. Legal Studies, 40(2), 187-208. https://doi.org/10.1017/lst.2020.7
- ↑ Dignam, A. (2020) Artificial Intelligence, Tech Corporate Governance And The Public Interest Regulatory Response’ Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, Volume 13, Issue 1, March 2020, pp. 37–54 https://doi.org/10.1093/cjres/rsaa002
This article "Alan Dignam" is from Wikipedia. The list of its authors can be seen in its historical and/or the page Edithistory:Alan Dignam. Articles copied from Draft Namespace on Wikipedia could be seen on the Draft Namespace of Wikipedia and not main one.
