Monthly Archives: November 2024

Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance in India

Corporate Governance

The concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has had a pivotal status in the debates surrounding corporate law and governance at the turn of the century. Although CSR was ensconced in the idea of voluntarism by which companies and their boards are invited to pay attention to the interests of various constituencies affected by a company’s activities, in some jurisdictions it has also acquired the status of a legal obligation. However, a recent strain of literature has identified that the broader sustainability concerns surrounding corporate governance have focused more on environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG), and away from CSR as traditionally understood.

A New Player in the Treaty Interpretation Game

Public International Law

As lawyers, texts are – to a large extent – our ‘stock in trade.’ And so, like many other lawyers, I have become fascinated by the ability of services such as ChatGPT to use large language models (‘LLMs’) to generate human-like text. Much has been written on how LLMs can pass bar exams and how they might affect various areas of national law. But there’s something of a blind spot when it comes to how LLMs will affect international law, particularly in the realm of treaty interpretation. Yet treaty interpretation, with its complex interplay of language, context, and legal principles, provides a particularly intriguing case study for the potential impact of LLMs.