Module description
Which enterprises should be privatised owned, and which should be publicly owned? However they are owned, who should have governance power in them? And how should human rights, such as good education, health, full employment, a clean environment, fast internet, or sound public information be assured?
Global enterprises dominate every aspect of our lives, from banks, to “big tech”, to fossil fuel corporations, to our hospitals and schools. This course is the first of its kind to understand our entire economic constitution, and understand its basic grammar of finance, governance and rights. Our course is flexible, but will include something like the following:
- History and theory
- Higher education
- Health care
- Banking
- Oil and Gas
- Electricity generation
- Housing
- Transport
- Web media (e.g. Insta, YouTube)
- Marketplaces (e.g. Google, Amazon)
Assessment details
Examination (100%)
Learning outcomes
How are enterprises governed outside the familiar framework of corporate law, competition law and insolvency which prevails in the private sector? This module asks whether there can be common principles of governance in enterprises that cross from private to public Our learning outcomes will be to have a sophisticated understanding of the sectors in the weekly plan that follows:
- History and theory
- Higher education
- Health care
- Banking
- Oil and Gas
- Electricity generation
- Rail transport
- Road transport
- Web communications and media (e.g. Facebook, Youtube)
- Marketplaces (e.g. Google, Amazon)
Suggested reading list
The main text is Ewan McGaughey, Principles of Enterprise Law: the Economic Constitution and Human Rights (Cambridge University Press, 2022))