The supranational corporation [electronic resource] : beyond the multinationals / by Laura Westra.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Westra, Laura.

Series:

Studies in Critical Social Sciences 53.

Studies in critical social sciences

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Corporate power.

Corporations--Political activity.

Corporations.

International business enterprises--Law and legislation.

International business enterprises.

Juristic persons.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (220 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Brill, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The growth of corporate power has kept pace with and even exceeded the rapid rise of globalization in the past two decades. With it has come the weakening of a nation’s ability to hold corporate power in check, and the increasing inability of states to protect the rights of individuals within their national boundaries as a result of the growing number of international legal instruments. This work lays bare corporate actions both domestic and international, under the guise of legal \'personhood,\' and shows how corporations flaunt laws and act as controlling powers beyond the constraints imposed on legal state citizens. Corporations are now “embedded” within domestic legal regimes and insinuate themselves to subvert the very systems designed to restrain corporate power and protect the public weal. Using international vehicles like the WTO and NAFTA, corporate collective power effectively supersedes the constitutional mandate of nation states.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Richard Westra

Introduction

The Corporation: From the “Original Sin” (Santa Clara) to Right of Personhood (Roe)

The Corporation: Controlling Public Health and Other Basic Rights

The Corporation and the State: A Question of Power

The Corporation as Criminal

The Corporation as a Supranational Power: The European Union

The Corporation as a Supranational Power

Appendix I: Cases

Appendix II: Documents

References

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

90-04-25272-X

OCLC:

846494933

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004252721 DOI