PUBPOL 113CNS
Governing Corporate Power: Rules, Democracy, and Human Rights
Suzanne Katzenstein
Description from DukeHub
What, precisely, is the challenge of corporate power? What obligations should corporations have ? What kinds of rules most effectively regulate corporate conduct, and who should make, implement and enforce these rules? Lastly, why do some regulatory approaches meaningfully change corporate behavior while others prove, at best, symbolic? Governing Corporate Power: Rules, Democracy, and Human Rights will examine these questions through an interdisciplinary perspective, integrating political science, public policy, and law. We will examine the legal and normative frameworks governing corporations, the accountability strategies actors use to give rules force. Lastly we will consider a range of case studies to identify when and how these rules work (and don't) in practice.
Skills
- policy and lawdescription: "regulate" and 4 more
AI-resilient: 2 of 5
- No: Physical, lab or field work
- No: Live work with people
- Yes: Judgment someone is accountable for · "policy"
- No: A craft you practice with your hands or body
- Yes: Small, in-person format · seminar, 18 seats per section
The checks lean on Microsoft Research, Working with AI (2025), which found generative AI applies least to physical work and hands-on work with people. A signal, not a promise. How the score works
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