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South African company law in the fourth industrial revolution: does artificial intelligence create a need for legal reform?

Magister Legum - LLM / 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.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:uwc/oai:etd.uwc.ac.za:11394/8832
Date January 2021
CreatorsAdams, Nathan-Ross
ContributorsBotha, Monray Marsellus
PublisherUniversity of the Western Cape
Source SetsSouth African National ETD Portal
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
RightsUniversity of the Western Cape

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