The Corporation, Law, and Capitalism

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).

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

PrefaceAcknowledgementsAbbreviations1 Introduction: 'Das Kapital, das immer dahinter steckt '1>2>3>4>5>2 The Roots, Development, and Context of the Legal Concept of the Corporation: the Making of a Structure of Irresponsibility and a Tool of Imperialism1 Introduction to 2A and 2B2 A>1 Introduction to 2A 2>3>4 From the Joint Stock Corporation to the MNC 5 Conclusion to 2A 2 B>1>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 ' 6>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? 1>2 The ICC 3>4 ICL on the Domestic Level 5>6>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>Appendix A Appendix B Appendix C Appendix D Appendix E Appendix F References Index