Human rights after corporate personhood : an uneasy merger? / edited by Jody Greene and Sharif Youssef.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Greene, Jody, editor.

Youssef, Sharif, 1974- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Juristic persons.

Corporation law--Social aspects.

Corporation law.

Civil rights of corporations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (344 p.)

Place of Publication:

Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Human Rights after Corporate Personhood offers a rich overview of current debates, and seeks to transcend the "outrage response" often found in public discourse and corporate legal theory. Through original and innovative analyses, the volume offers an alternative account of corporate juridical personality and its relation to the human, one that departs from accounts offered by public law. In addition, it explores opportunities for the application of legal personality to assist progressive projects, including, but not limited to, environmental justice, animal rights, and Indigenous land claims. Presented accessibly for the benefit of non-specialist readers, the volume offers original arguments and draws on eclectic sources, from law and poetry to fiction and film. At the same time, it is firmly grounded in legal scholarship and, thus, serves as an essential reference for scholars, students, lawmakers, and anyone seeking a better understanding of the interface between corporations and the law in the twenty-first century.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Corporate Persons, Revisited

Part One: Noble Households, Ignoble Subjects

1 The Corporation’s Neoliberal Soul?

2 Cosmopolitanism, Sovereignty, and the Problem of Corporate Personhood

3 Watched Over by Assemblages of Providential Grace

Part Two: The Social Theory of the Corporation

4 From Public Sphere to Personalized Feed: Corporate Constitutional Rights and the Challenge to Popular Sovereignty

5 Exceptionally Gifted: Corporate Exceptionalism and the Expropriation of Human Rights

Part Three: Discipline and Guardianship

6 Killing Corporations to Save Humans: How Corporate Personhood, Human Rights, and the Corporate Death Penalty Intersect

7 Already Artificial: Legal Personality and Animal Rights

Part Four: Corporate Personification

8 The Livestock That Therefore We Are: Two Episodes from the Prehistory of Corporate Personhood

9 Immortal and Intangible? Corporate Metaphysics in Jacksonian America

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4875-3529-5

1-4875-3528-7

OCLC:

1204136828