Authors

Shawn Bayern

Implied Organizations and Technological Governance

Abstract

Common law historically adapted creatively and gracefully to the emergence of new types of organizations. Today, statutory forms of organizations predominate. But statutory organizational forms may be ill-suited to govern the novel, loosely coupled, and rapidly changing organizations that can arise through distributed technological mechanisms. This Article suggests that the common law of implied organizations can be a fertile ground for legal responses to technological organizations and indeed may be important not just for regulating such organizations but for giving them important legal capabilities.

Repository Citation

Shawn Bayern, Implied Organizations and Technological Governance, 64 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 969 (2023), https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/wmlr/vol64/iss4/3