Roy Shapira: Europe’s Corporate Sustainability Directive and Its Impact on U.S. Board Oversight Duties

(0:00) Intro(1:30) About the podcast sponsor: The American College of Governance Counsel(2:17) Start of interview(3:01) Roy's origin story. (6:35) About the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive ("CS3D"). His paper co-authored with Luca Enriques and Matteo Gatti: How the EU Sustainability Due Diligence Directive Could Reshape Corporate America (2025)(9:28) The Political Climate of ESG, and divide between US and EU. *On March 15, 2025, Tennessee senator Bill Hagerty filed "Protect USA Act", an anti-CS3D bill.(12:45) Extraterritorial Reach of the CS3D(14:20) What US board must do to comply with CS3D(16:32) Oversight Duties Under U.S. Law ("Caremark Duties")(23:10) Linking Caremark Duties with CS3D(26:00) Sanctions for Non-Compliance with CS3D(29:47) Compliance and Enforcement Mechanisms(33:35) Changes to Delaware Corporate Law. Reference to Delaware's SB21(34:26) Changes to Section 144 (controlling shareholder transactions) (37:15) Changes to Section 220, Shareholder Inspection Rights(41:33) Changes to independent director analysis by Delaware's SB21(45:29) Geopolitical Tensions and Corporate Governance. "My general theme is that I don't envy being a director right now."(46:48) The Impact of Specialist Directors. See his 2024 paper with Yaron Nili here.(48:27) Books that have greatly influenced his life. (49:10) His mentors.Professor Mark Roe (Harvard Law School)Professor Luigi Zingales (Chicago Business School)(49:50) Quotes that he thinks of often or lives his life by: "Control what you can control."(50:27) An unusual habit or an absurd thing that he loves. Roy Shapira is a Professor of Law at Reichman University in Israel. He focuses his research on reputation, regulation, and corporate governance. You can follow Evan on social media at:X: @evanepsteinLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/epsteinevan/ Substack: https://evanepstein.substack.com/__To support this podcast you can join as a subscriber of the Boardroom Governance Newsletter at https://evanepstein.substack.com/__Music/Soundtrack (found via Free Music Archive): Seeing The Future by Dexter Britain is licensed under a Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License

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