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Notes

1 The support of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) in funding the Systemic Risk Centre is gratefully acknowledged (grant numbers ES/K002309/1 and ES/R009724/1).

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Eva Micheler

Eva Micheler is a Professor of Law at the London School of Economics, studied law at the University of Vienna and Oxford. She specialises in corporate law, securities law, and technology. He is also on the management committee of the Systemic Risk Centre at LSE. Her research delves into the legal personality of companies, emphasising their autonomous decision–making processes. Her book ‘Company Law: A Real Entity Theory’ explores how company law facilitates organisational action by recognising entities as more than the sum of their parts. Additionally, she contributes to the field of property law, particularly in analysing securities, their transfer and holding systems, and the effect of technological innovation on the field.

David Gindis

David Gindis is an Associate Professor at Warwick Law School. His research into the nexus between legal and socioeconomic features of business firms and similar organisations lies at the intersections of company law, law and economics, and institutional theory. He is particularly interested in the corporate personality controversy and is exploring extensions of Ostromian institutionalism to corporations and other organisational forms. He edits the Corporate Law section of PhilPapers and is a co–founder of the World Interdisciplinary Network for Institutional Research (WINIR).