International Corporate Personhood Business and the Bodyless in International Law
This book tracks the phenomenon of international corporate personhood (ICP) in international law and explores many legal issues raised in its wake. It sketches a theory of the ICP and encourages engagement with its amorphous legal nature through reimagination of international law beyond the State, in service to humanity.
The book offers two primary contributions, one descriptive and one normative. The descriptive section of the book sketches a history of the emergence of the ICP and discusses existing analogical approaches to theorizing the corporation in international law. It then turns to an analysis of the primary judicial decisions and international legal instruments that animate internationally a concept that began in U.S. domestic law. The descriptive section concludes with a list of twenty-two judge-made and text-made rights and privileges presently available to the ICP that are not available to other international legal personalities; these are later categorized into ?active? and ?passive? rights. The normative section of the book begins the shift from whatis to whatought to be by sketching a theory of the ICP that ? unlike existing attempts to place the corporation in international legal theory ? does not rely on analogical reasoning. Rather, it adopts the Jessupian emphasis on ?human problems? and encourages pragmatic, solution-oriented legal analysis and interpretation, especially in arbitral tribunals and international courts where legal reasoning is frequently borrowed from domestic law and international treaty regimes. It suggests that ICPs should have ?passive? or procedural rights that cater to problems that can be characterized as ?universal? but that international law should avoid universalizing ?active? or substantive rights which ICPs can shape through agency. The book concludes by identifying new trajectories in law relevant to the future and evolution of the ICP.
This book will be most useful to students and practitioners of international law but provides riveting material for anyone interested in understanding the phenomenon of international corporate personhood or the international law surrounding corporations more generally.
Introduction: The Status Quo 1. The Emergence of International Corporate Personhood 2. The International Corporate Person in International Law: Judge-Made Law 3. The International Corporate Person in International Law: Texts and Practices 4. Theorizing International Corporate Personhood 5. Political Bodies and the Bodyless Conclusion: Beyond Sovereignty, Beyond the Veil
Kevin Crow is Assistant Professor of International Law and Ethics at the Asia School of Business, Malaysia, and International Faculty Fellow at the MIT Sloan School of Management, United States. His research focuses on corporate subjectivity, private authorship of public international law, and the ways in which understandings of economic and institutional morality as well as beliefs regarding ‘the natural’ inform legal and market logics.
Date de parution : 01-2023
15.6x23.4 cm
Date de parution : 05-2021
15.6x23.4 cm
Thèmes d’International Corporate Personhood :
Mots-clés :
International Law; Public International Law; International corporate personhood; International Investment Law; Organic theory; International Legal Personalities; Positivist theory; ICJ; Proxy theory; ICSID; Magistrate phase; International Legal; Public Charter phase; ICSID Convention; Personhood phase; ICSID Tribunal; Para-Individualist; Veil Piercing; Para-Statist; Corporate Veil; Para-Institutionalist; International Economic Law; Human rights; International Investment Agreements; Mens Rea; ICP responsibilities; Corporate Personhood; International legal theory; Active Rights; CSR Initiative; Deferred Prosecution Agreement; IG Farben; Jus Cogens; SCM Agreement; Buyer Firms; Erga Omnes; ILO Declaration