States, Firms, and Their Legal Fictions (eBook, PDF)

Attributing Identity and Responsibility to Artificial Entities
Redaktion: Durkee, Melissa J. (Washington University

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This volume offers a new point of entry into questions about how the law conceives of states and firms. Because states and firms are fictitious constructs rather than products of evolutionary biology, the law dictates which acts should be attributed to each entity, and by which actors. Those legal decisions construct firms and states by attributing identity and consequences to them. As the volume shows, these legal decisions are often products of path dependence or conceptual metaphors like personhood that have expanded beyond their original uses. Focusing on attribution, the volume considers an array of questions about artificial entities that are usually divided into doctrinal siloes. These include questions about attribution of international legal responsibility to states and state-owned entities, transnational attribution of liabilities to firms, and attribution of identity rights to corporations. Durkee highlights the artificiality of doctrines that construct firms and states, and therefore their susceptibility to change.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2024
• ISBN-13: 9781009334716
• Artikelnr.: 70913274

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; 1. States, Firms, and their Legal Fictions Melissa J. Durkee;
Part I. International Attribution: 2. Attribution in International Law:
Challenges and Evolution Kristen E. Boon; 3. Between States and Firms:
Attribution and the Construction of the Shareholder State Mikko Rajavuori;
4. Contractors and Hybrid Warfare: A Pluralist Approach to Reforming the
Law of State Responsibility Laura Dickinson; 5. The Enduring Charter:
Corporations, States, and International Law Doreen Lustig; Part II.
Transnational Attribution: 6. Corporate Structures and the Attribution
Dilemma in Multinational Enterprises James T. Gathii and Olabisi D.
Akinkugbe; 7. Transnational Blame Attribution: The Limits of Using
Reputational Sanctions to Punish Corporate Misconduct Kishanthi Parella; 8.
Mind the Agency Gap in Corporate Social Responsibility Dalia Palombo; Part
III. Domestic Attribution: 9. To Whom Should We Attribute A Corporation's
Speech? Sarah C. Haan; 10. What is a Corporate Mind? Mental State
Attribution Benjamin P. Edwards; 11. Who is a Corporation? Attributing the
Moral Might of the Corporate Form Catherine A. Hardee; Part IV. Conceptual
Origins and Lineages: 12. The Juridical Person of the State: Origins and
Implications David Ciepley; 13. Corporate Personhood as Legal and Literary
Fiction Joshua Barkan.