Grietje Baars

The Corporation, Law, and Capitalism

A Radical Perspective on the Role of Law in the Global Political Economy

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This radical and innovative volume develops a Marxist understanding of the symbiosis between law and capital in our society.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Haymarket Books
• Seitenzahl: 498
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 225mm x 151mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 684g
• ISBN-13: 9781642591873
• ISBN-10: 1642591874
• Artikelnr.: 59549627

Autorenporträt

Grietje Baars is a Senior Lecturer in Law at City, University of London. They have published widely on Marxist theory of law, and co-edited (with Andre Spicer) The Corporation, A Critical, Multidisciplinary Handbook (CUP, 2017).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
1 Introduction: 'Das Kapital, das immer dahinter steckt '
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>3
>4
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2 The Roots, Development, and Context of the Legal Concept of the
Corporation: the Making of a Structure of Irresponsibility and a Tool of
Imperialism
1
Introduction to 2A and 2B
2 A
>1
Introduction to 2A
2
>3
>4
From the Joint Stock Corporation to the MNC
5
Conclusion to 2A
2 B
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>2
>3
Corporations in IL in the Twentieth Century
4
Class Law and Class Struggle in IL
5
Conclusion to 2B
6
Afterword to 2A and 2B: the Modern Corporation and Criminal Law
3 Capitalism 's Victor 's Justice? The Economics of World War Two, the
Allies ' Trials of the German Industrialists and Their Treatment of the
Japanese zaibatsu
1
Introduction to 3A and 3B
3 A
>1
Introduction to 3A
2
>3
The US Occupation and Economic Reform of Germany
4
>5
>6
>7
>8
Conclusion to 3A
3 B
>1
Introduction to 3B
2
>3
The US Occupation and Economic Reform of Japan
4
>5
Economic Occupation Policy: zaibatsu Dissolution and the 'Reverse Course '
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4 Remaking ICL: Removing Businessmen and Inserting Legal Persons as
Subjects
1
Introduction to 4A, 4B and 4C
4 A
The (ReMaking of ICL: Lawyers Congealing Capitalism
1
Introduction to 4A: Constructing ICL 's Foundational Ideology
2
ICL ideology, Pre-fab Critiques and Foreclosed Critiques
3
An Alternative Foundational Narrative for ICL
4
Conclusion to 4A
4 B
'No Soul to Damn and No Body to Kick '? Attribution, Perpetration and Mens
Rea in Business
1
Introduction to 4B
2
Conclusion to 4B: so Many Men, so Many Modes
4 C
Re-Making ICL: Who Wants to Be an International Criminal? Casting Business
in Contemporary ICL
1
Introduction to 4C
2
The 'New ICL ' and Re-opening the Debate on Collective Liability
3
'De-Individualising ICL ': towards Legal Person Liability?
4
>5
Conclusion to 4C
6
Conclusion to 4A, 4B and 4C: Who Let the Dogmatisierung out?
5 Contemporary Schreibtischtäter: Drinking the Poison Chalice?
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The ICC
3
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ICL on the Domestic Level
5
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6 Corporate Imperialism 3.0: from the Dutch East India Company to the
American South Asia Company
1
>2
>3
>4
Legalised CSR, CA Cause Lawyering and Corporate ICL Problematised
5
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Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
Appendix D
Appendix E
Appendix F
References
Index