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Purpose – This study examines the legal system's responses to the disaster of Hurricane Katrina and the flooding of New Orleans particularly in the first two weeks after the storm. During this period, issues of law and order were a primary concern of government decision makers, and these issues framed those of rescue of and aid to the survivors.

Approach – The chapter draws on the analytic concept of the carceral state as it is publicly displayed in official reactions to disaster rumors of disorder and violence. The empirical focus is on policing activity and on events at the Orleans Parish Prison and Camp Greyhound, a temporary detention center established after the storm.

Findings – Largely unfounded rumors of disorder, including roaming gangs, extensive looting, rape, and murder, fueled the emphasis on law and order and policing and carceral decisions of officials. Actions intended to facilitate an individual's survival or comfort or evacuation were often treated as criminal. New Orleans became a prison city.

Originality – The analysis develops the concept of a “prison city” as an embodiment of the carceral state and suggests that the carceral state prompts and reinforces rumors about disorder and the tendency to designate policing and incarceration as essential first responses to disasters in the United States.

This chapter is influenced by the globally renowned pillars of good governance which are independence, transparency, accountability, fairness and responsibility. Even, with a plethora of literature on these five pillars, little has been published with regards to how these conform or contradict with the upsurge of virtualised teaching and learning. Current developments in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) are supporting application of educational technologies as a trajectory into the Zimbabwean Education 5.0 (teaching, research, community service, industrialisation and innovation) accompanied by the COVID-19 pandemic. There is an increasing use of e-learning platforms for individual and collaborated learning which are both synchronous and asynchronous. It gave path to the adoption of e-learning systems which includes ZOOM, Google Class, Microsoft Teams and many others. The challenge with these learning platforms is that they reduce or totally eliminate physical and human interaction in higher education. Though there is little evidence, it has become a cause of concern that through virtualised learning, there is an increase in unethical classroom practices. In the interest of the aforementioned, this book chapter interrogated literature on e-learning resources in line with the needed governing ethics influenced by COVID-19 pandemic.

Connecting and integrating the economics, organization, and management of the firm with other relevant perspectives in political science, constitutional law, and constitutional political economy, this paper revisits the nature of the corporation as a particular type of constitutional contract. The baseline argument is to show how far we can go in redesigning and democratizing the corporate form of business “societas” by using only organizational effectiveness criteria before any ethical or political options. In fact, on the basis of those (re-)foundations, the analysis addresses the questions of why the form of government of that societas should be (and in part already is in various corporate law systems) a “republic of rightholders”; who those “rightholders” should be; and which structures (organs and bodies) and decision and control procedures may sustain effective governance not only in terms of the representation of legitimate interests but also in terms of decision quality. The result is the specification of the requisite variety of “chambers” and within “chambers.”