The "comply or explain" principle adopted by the UK's Combined Code on Corporate Governance has now been in operation for 12 years. In this paper we focus on two aspects of this regime. The first is the nature of the explanations that have been given by companies with an established record of...

The requirement to adopt one of three options for workforce engagement specified in Provision 5 of the 2018 UK Corporate Governance Code is an important development in terms of integrating stakeholder interests into board decision-making, resulting in better stakeholder engagement. At a...

This short paper focuses on the response to the pandemic in corporate law and capital markets regulation and the role that the law played in it.First, the pandemic has brought the interests of stakeholders into more direct focus in corporate governance than was previously the case. But questions...

Asset manager signatories of the Net Zero Asset Manager Initiative, part of the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero, have committed to investing in line with the Race to Zero goal of limiting global warming to 1.5oC with limited or no overshoot. Given that a recent report from United Nations...