03748oam 22005052 450 991079357310332120230817192249.090-04-39286-610.1163/9789004392861(CKB)4100000007816906(MiAaPQ)EBC5741312(nllekb)BRILL9789004392861(EXLCZ)99410000000781690620190103d2019 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe corporation, law and capitalism a radical perspective on the role of law in the global political economy /by Grietje BaarsLeiden ;Boston :Brill Nijhoff,2019.1 online resource (498 pages)Historical materialism book series ;volume 188Based on author's thesis (doctoral - University College London, 2012) issued under title: Law(yers) congealing capitalism : on the (im)possibility of restraining business in conflict through international criminal law.90-04-29707-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Motto -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: ‘Das Kapital, das immer dahinter steckt’ -- The Roots, Development, and Context of the Legal Concept of the Corporation: the Making of a Structure of Irresponsibility and a Tool of Imperialism -- Capitalism’s Victors’ Justice? The Economics of World War Two, the Allies’ Trials of the German Industrialists and Their Treatment of the Japanese zaibatsu -- Remaking ICL: Removing Businessmen and Inserting Legal Persons as Subjects -- Contemporary Schreibtischtäter: Drinking from the Poisoned Chalice? -- Corporate Imperialism 3.0: from the Dutch East India Company to the American South Asia Company -- Back Matter -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Appendix C -- Appendix D -- Appendix E -- Appendix F -- References -- Index.In The Corporation, Law and Capitalism , Grietje Baars offers a radical Marxist perspective on the role of law in the global political economy. Closing a major gap in historical-materialist scholarship, they demonstrate how the corporation, capitalism’s main engine from city-state and colonial times to the present multinational, is a masterpiece of legal technology. The symbiosis between law and capital becomes acutely apparent in the question of ‘corporate accountability’. Baars provides a detailed analysis of corporate human rights and war crimes trials, from the Nuremberg industrialists’ trials to current efforts. The book shows that precisely because of law’s relationship to capital , law cannot prevent or remedy the ‘externalities’ produced by corporate capitalism. This realisation will generate the space required to formulate a different answer to ‘the question of the corporation’, and to global corporate capitalism more broadly, outside of the law.Historical Materialism Book Series188.Criminal liability of juristic persons (International law)International criminal lawEconmic aspectsLaw and socialismMarxian economicsCriminal liability of juristic persons (International law)International criminal lawEconmic aspects.Law and socialism.Marxian economics.345/.0401Baars Grietje1972-1482241NL-LeKBNL-LeKBBOOK9910793573103321The corporation, law and capitalism3699728UNINA