Larry Catá Backer, “Trust platforms: The digitalization of corporate governance and the transformation of trust in polycentric space,” Regulation and Governance (2024) doi:10.1111/rego.12614
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Abstract: This contribution considers the revolution in the concept and practice of trust in corporate governance that first moved from trust in“people” to trust in“compliance,” setting the stage for the digitization of trust measures and the digitalization of compliance. Part One examines the fundamental challenge, one that arises from the near simultaneous shift in cultural expectations about trust from trust in character to trust in measurement, and then the rise of cultures of data driven systems of compliance and accountability. Part Two then considers the transformation brought by challenge responses in the form of three closely interlinked impulses: digitization, digitalization of compliance-accountability regimes, and the emergence of platforms as spaces for trust interactions among stakeholders. Part Three then examines the current shape of these iterative dialectics, including connections between platforms and polycentric trust governance, and the detachment of trust from the entity that is its subject.
Larry Catá Backer, Panel Discussion: How to Become a Full-Time Law Professor – A Workshop for Aspirants, Journal of Legal Education 73(1):113-135 (2024)
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Abstract: Today’s practice of law is a global practice.
Therefore, it is essential that the law school graduate is competent, comfortable
and effective representing any client in the world, whether in person or via the
worldwide internet. Hence, law schools must directly and indirectly expose today’s law student to faculty who hail from a variety of backgrounds in terms of race, gender,
sexual preference and orientation, age, education, professional and personal
background, culture, scholarship, interests, and intellectual perspectives.
This panel continues the NPOC’s strong decades old, commitment to
diversity and inclusion from the Dean’s Suite to the Classrooms. We sought
to strongly encourage and provide step-by-step guidance to those seeking to
enter the Legal Academy.