Call for Papers: SCoLA 2027 Conference on 'Corporate Law in a Changing World', Bond University Faculty of Law, Gold Coast (Australia)

The Society of Corporate Law Academics (SCoLA) holds its 2027 annual conference at the Bond University Faculty of Law, Gold Coast, Australia, from Sunday 7 February to Tuesday 9 February 2027. The conference is held entirely in person on Bond University's Robina campus. Bond University is Australia's first private, not-for-profit university, and its Faculty of Law is hosting the 2027 edition of what is the principal annual gathering of corporate law scholars in the Australia, New Zealand and wider Asia-Pacific academic community.

Proceedings open on the afternoon of Sunday 7 February 2027 at 2 pm with NextGen sessions and teaching sessions, followed by informal networking. The full-day conference programme runs on Monday 8 February and Tuesday 9 February 2027, with the official Welcome Dinner on the Monday evening. Keynote and guest speaker announcements, along with the detailed programme, are to be released by the organisers in the months ahead.

The organising committee frames the 2027 theme around a simple observation: in a time where relentless change seems to be the only certainty, the basic systems on which the world has been premised since the Second World War are transforming. Political, financial and economic systems, multilateral institutions and global trade are in flux. Relationships among and between corporations, governments and ordinary people are shifting alongside revolutionary technological advances, changing access to markets and resources, and shifting power dynamics in both domestic and international spheres.

Against that backdrop the committee asks how corporations are adapting to, or driving, contemporary developments, and what corporate law is doing and what it should be doing in the face of these forces of change. The corporate form has proven resilient and adaptable, and the conference invites work that tests how far that adaptability extends.