The Law Reform Commission has said it is extremely important for Ireland that law relating to corporate crime is robust and fit for purpose.
The commission's fourth programme for law reform will examine deficiencies in this area of legislation.
It will look at the range of offences, sentences and appeals processes.
The commission will also look at corporate regulation and regulatory codes.
It is one of 11 topics to be examined under the new programme.
The commission will also examine how cyber-bullying is dealt with in Irish law.
Law Reform Commissioner Finola Flanagan said it was not clear that Ireland's current law was robust enough to deal with the digital age and social media.
"It's extremely important for Ireland that this law is robust and fit for purpose," she said.
"So we will be looking at the range of offences, sentences, appeals processes.
"There are a lot of different regulators each with their own particular code, which gives them their powers and the question arises whether comparable regulators should have one code for all of them."
Ms Flanagan said information that was immediate, worldwide and anonymous had a great effect on young people and adults.
She said: "It's not clear that adults necessarily understand exactly what the difficulties are. So we will need to do a lot of work and we've already met some experts in the area.
"They've all offered to help. They're very interested in giving us the assistance we need."
The commission will also be looking at the accessibility of legislation.
Ms Flanagan said it was sometimes difficult to find out information about a provision of a law, as a particular law could have been passed decades ago and been amended and re-amended over time.
She said the commission would examine how to keep law together so that it remained that way over time and was easily accessible.
