Benjamin Ask Popp-Madsen and Mathias Hein Jessen presented “Law and Economics, Agency Theory and the Economic Analysis of Corporate Law” in the panel Corporations and Climate Change at the conference Capitalist Institutions & Power, at the University of Warwick, United Kingdom (14 May 2026).
The conference was organized by Nicholas Gane, David Gindis and Matthew Watson, and held at the University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom, on 14 May 2026.
Thursday 14 May
○ 09:30–10:00: Arrival/coffee
Chair: Timothy Monteath (University of Warwick, Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies)
‘Living by the Score: Fintech, Open Banking and Everyday Digital Financialisation’
- Roger Burrows (University of Bristol, School of Policy Studies)
‘Regulating Payments in the Name of Choice’
- Natasha de Teran (University of Warwick, Warwick Business School)
‘Fintech Credit Markets and the Limits of Financial Innovation’
- Chris Clarke (University of Warwick, Department of Politics and International Studies)
Chair: Celine Tan (University of Warwick, School of Law)
‘Privatising Humanity: How Our Basic Human Needs Became Financial Assets’
- Kate Bayliss (SOAS, University of London, Department of Economics)
‘Modularity and Regulatory Failure: The Case of Thames Water’
- Andrew Johnston (University of Warwick, School of Law)
‘Energy Crisis and Privatization at the World Bank’
- Nicholas Bernards (University of Warwick, School of Cross-Faculty Studies)
Chair: Nicholas Gane (University of Warwick, Department of Sociology)
‘Accounting and International Political Economy in the Age of Hollow Corporations’
- Andrew Baker (University of Sheffield, School of Sociological Studies, Politics and International Relations) & Adam Leaver (University of Sheffield, Management School)
‘Everyday Asset Struggles: Social Reproduction and the New Logics of Inequality’
- Mareike Beck (University of Warwick, Department of Politics and International Studies)
‘Securitization and Trust: A Study in the Socialization of Capital’
- Stephen Connelly (University of Warwick, School of Law)
Chair: Asha Herten-Crabb (University of Warwick, Department of Politics and International Studies)
‘Law and Economics, Agency Theory and the Economic Analysis of Corporate Law’
- Benjamin Ask Popp-Madsen (Copenhagen Business School, Department of Business Humanities and Law) & Mathias Hein Jessen (Copenhagen Business School, Department of Business Humanities and Law)
‘Activating Parent-Company Environmental Responsibility as a Mode of Global Governance’
- Irit Mevorach (University of Warwick, School of Law)
‘The Politics of Mitigating for Climate Change’
- Caroline Kuzemko (University of Warwick, Department of Politics and International Studies)
○ 17:00-18:00: PUBLIC LECTURE (S0.21)
Chair: David Gindis (University of Warwick, School of Law)
‘The Law of Capitalism and How to Transform It’
- Katharina Pistor (Columbia University, Columbia Law School)