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Institutional design in commons-based sharing economies: platform, care and place Open

Bronwen Morgan · 2024

This paper presents an analytical mapping of institutional design possibilities for alternative ways for digital platforms to institutionalise property and corporate form. It builds on the institutional imagination catalysed by three vigne…

Law and social innovation Open

Bronwen Morgan · 2023

In the absence of any clearly existing sub-field of law and social innovation scholarship, this entry explores three lines of enquiry as the foundation for the scope and parameters of a fertile dialogue between law and social innovation. I…

Reflections on the first year of Global Social Challenges Journal and looking to the future Open

Dávid Simon, Marcel Bursztyn, Shenggen Fan, Siddharth Mallavarapu, Bronwen Morgan , et al. · 2023

Prefigurative Legality Open

Amy J. Cohen, Bronwen Morgan · 2023

Since the early 2000s, many of the left groups that spurred the alt-globalization movement have embraced directly democratic organizing and the creation of ethical relationships and subjectivities far more than they have pursued projects t…

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David Levi‐Faur, Eva Thomann, Tim Bartley, John Braithwaite, Cary Coglianese , et al. · 2023

The regulatory state under pressure Open

Bronwen Morgan · 2022

The regulatory state is under pressure from three developments. First, the very real political power of large private entities to make and implement rules is more visible than ever, and its rise has tracked an alarmingly intense increase i…

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David Levi‐Faur, Sally S. Simpson, Eva Thomann, Benjamin van Rooij, Tim Bartley , et al. · 2022

Contested Common Space, Regulation and Inclusion at the Coogee Women’s Pool Open

Bronwen Morgan, Beth Goldblatt · 2022

This article concerns two disputes that occurred between 2020–22 at the Coogee Women’s Pool, a public ocean pool in Sydney reserved for use only by women. One contest concerned the governance of the pool by its Management Committee related…

Prefigurative legality: Transforming municipal jurisdiction Open

Amelia Thorpe, Bronwen Morgan · 2022

This paper argues that prefigurative legality plays an important role in crafting municipalist strategy. We explore the experience of the City of Sydney in relation to new municipalism, focusing on its trajectory as a ‘boundary case’ that …

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David Levi‐Faur, Sally S. Simpson, Eva Thomann, Benjamin van Rooij, Tim Bartley , et al. · 2022

What does a right to repair tell us about our relationship with technology? Open

Kayleen Manwaring, Matthew Kearnes, Bronwen Morgan, Paul Munro, Roberta Pala , et al. · 2022

This article examines the recommendations of the recent Productivity Commission Inquiry regarding the right to repair through the lens of social issues surrounding the right to repair movement. It describes the right to repair movement in …

Addressing the global social challenges of our time Open

Shenggen Fan, Julie Thompson Klein, Siddharth Mallavarapu, Bronwen Morgan, Sue Scott , et al. · 2022

Prefigurative Legality Open

Amy J. Cohen, Bronwen Morgan · 2022

The hopeful edges of power: Radical governance and acting 'as if' Open

Davina Cooper, Bronwen Morgan, Amelia Thorpe · 2021

There's a playful power in interventions that assume the world is as it could be, not as it is. Bronwen Morgan (Sydney), Amelia Thorpe (Sydney) and Davina Cooper (UK) propose tools like radical governance and treating the law as utopian to…

Diverse legalities: pluralism and instrumentalism Open

Bronwen Morgan, Declan Kuch · 2020

This chapter draws from socio-legal scholarship to explore two pathways opened up by the question of law’s role in producing a discourse of economic difference: legal pluralism and legal instrumentalism. The former refers to a tradition of…

Corporate Governance for Sustainability Open

Andrew Johnston, Jeroen Veldman, Robert G. Eccles, Simon Deakin, Jerry Davis , et al. · 2019

The Sharing Economy Open

Bronwen Morgan · 2018

The sharing economy is an emergent field of scholarship. This review explores two clusters of debate regarding the sharing economy and seeks to discern the lines of a productive dialogue between them. It suggests that the current state of …

Lawyers, Legal Advice and Relationality in Sustainable Economy Initiatives Open

Bronwen Morgan · 2017

The context of this paper is that of legal professional support for sustainable economy initiatives. Practices that blur the line between law and non-law as a strategy are often viewed by those who found such initiatives as part of an impo…

Classifying social enterprise models in Australia Open

Jo Barraket, Heather Douglas, Robyn Eversole, Chris Mason, Joanne McNeill , et al. · 2017

Purpose This paper aims to document the nature of social enterprise models in Australia, their evolution and institutional drivers. Design/methodology/approach The paper draws on secondary analysis of source materials and the existing lite…

The Legal Roots of a Sustainable and Resilient Economy: New Kinds of Legal Entities, New Kinds of Lawyers? Open

Bronwen Morgan, Joanne McNeill, Isobel Blomfield · 2017

Rethinking the green state beyond the Global North: a South African climate change case study Open

Sangeetha Chandrashekeran, Bronwen Morgan, Kim Coetzee, Peter Christoff · 2017

This study focuses on the role of the South African state in environmental governance, with particular reference to transformations in political authority and processes of capital accumulation. Our approach underscores the importance of an…

<i>Regulatory Transformations. Rethinking Economy – Society Interactions</i>. By Bettina Lange, Fiona Haines and Dania Thomas (eds.). Oñati International Series in Law and Society, Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2015. 272 pp. £60.00 hardcover. Open

Bronwen Morgan · 2017

Sharing Subjects and Legality: Ambiguities in Moving Beyond Neoliberalism Open

Bronwen Morgan, Declan Kuch · 2017

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The Socio-Legal Implications of the New Politics of Climate Change Open

Bronwen Morgan, Declan Kuch · 2016

As 2016 lengthened its stride, the ‘ambivalent euphoria’ of the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change gave way to a sense of ‘where to from here?’ As one of us commented at the time, ‘[w]hile the technicalities of the Kyoto Protocol were …

Where are the Community Enterprise Lawyers? Towards an Effective Ecosystem of Legal Support For Small-Scale Sustainable Economy Initiatives in Australia Open

Bronwen Morgan, Joanne McNeill, Isobel Blomfield · 2016

The Modern Corporation Statement on Politics Open

Glenn Morgan, Susanne Soederberg, Dieter Plehwe, Laura Horn, Bob Jessop , et al. · 2016

Dissonant Justifications: an organisational perspective of support for Australian community energy Open

Declan Kuch, Bronwen Morgan · 2015

This paper presents a narrative ethnography of a Sydney-based community energy venture called Pingala, drawing on participant observation and action research carried out over an 18-month period from April 2013.The narrative presents a soci…

Radical Transactionalism: Legal Consciousness, Diverse Economies, and the Sharing Economy Open

Bronwen Morgan, Declan Kuch · 2015

This article proposes an original theoretical approach to the analysis of community‐level action for sustainability, focusing on its troubled relationship to the sharing economy. Through a conversation between scholarship on legal consciou…

Between Social Enterprise and Social Movement: The Bristol Report headlines, March 2015 Open

Caroline Bird, Bronwen Morgan · 2015

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