Evaluating today’s multi-dependencies in digital transformation, corporate governance and public international law triad

Abstract

The rapid digital transformation of contemporary societies has produced a collision of relationships between government institutions, private companies and the rules of public international law. As a result, a new type of homonymy has emerged based on emerging causality, connections and their intermingling in the legal environment across the world. Analysing technological evolution in relation to the responsiveness of organisations to digital change has opened up new avenues for corporate governance, which is why attention is being focused on the influences of digital tools and technologies in particular. These emergences are putting pressure on the doctrine to seek and develop new qualities in the same absolutely spontaneous and unpredictable way. The focus is on how these rules may or may not adapt to the new digital realities and how states and international organisations in particular are acting. Our assessment of multidependencies revolves around the question: will they permeate the codification of international law norms and if so, to what extent? On the basis of these assessments, the article puts forward a series of findings and proposals for improving the coherence and effectiveness of regulation now on the battlefield between digital transformation, corporate governance and public international law.

Keywords

• Corporate governance
• public international law
• digitisation
• technology
• legislative adaptation
• G30