South African company law in the fourth industrial revolution: does artificial intelligence create a need for legal reform?
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Date
2021
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University of the Western Cape
Abstract
Across the world, the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR)1 is disrupting the law.2 The
4IR has specifically disrupted commercial law in areas such as banking,3 competition,4
consumer protection,5 contract,6 insurance,7 labour,8 and personality.9 In addition,
company law has also substantially been impacted by the 4IR. Leading legal scholars
refer to this process of transformation as the ‘Digitalisation of Company Law’.10
More specifically, the scholars attribute the transformation to technological
advancements.
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Magister Legum - LLM
Keywords
Artificial intelligence, Decolonisation, Legal personality, agency, and property, Fourth industrial revolution