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1 online resource (235 p.) |
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- Introduction: the status quo -- 1 The emergence of international corporate personhood -- I. Definitions and distinctions -- a. Definitions -- b. Distinctions -- II. The corporate trinity: state, Church, company -- III. A brief history of corporate personhood in three phases -- a. The Magistrate Charter Phase: pre-1850 -- b. The public charter phase: 1850-1945 -- c. The personhood phase: post-1945 -- IV. Three conceptions of the ICP -- a. Para-individualist -- b. Para-statist -- c. Para-institutionalist |
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V. Three incarnations of the ICP -- a. The organic or 'real entity' theory -- b. The positivist or concession theory -- c. The proxy or institutional theory -- VI. The separation of ownership and control -- VII. Discussion: a person composed of persons -- 2 The international corporate person in international law: judge-made law -- I. Preface to the next two chapters -- II. The ICP in international tribunals -- i. Subjectivity of the corporation -- ii. Substantive rights -- iii. Criminal liability of corporations -- iv. Alien Tort Statute -- v. Human rights -- vi. Environment |
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Vii. Intellectual property -- viii. Clean hands and corruption -- ix. Importing rights through the New York Convention -- III. Conceptualizing judge-made ICP obligations: erga omnes v. jus cogens -- a. Erga omnes -- b. Jus cogens -- 3 The international corporate person in international law: texts and practices -- I. Exclusivity and the text -- II. The ICP in international legal texts and practices -- a. Business and Human Rights -- i. The European Convention on Human Rights and the European Court of Human Rights -- ii. The protect, respect, and remedy framework |
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Iii. The OEIGWG draft binding instrument -- iv. The Hague Rules on Business and Human Rights arbitration -- b. International criminal law -- i. The joint criminal enterprise and aiding and abetting -- ii. Environmental harm as a crime against humanity -- c. International anti-corruption texts and practices -- i. Explicit international anti-corruption instruments -- ii. Transfer pricing -- iii. Tax havens -- iv. Deferred prosecution agreements -- d. Environmental law -- i. Stockholm -- ii. Rio and aftermath -- e. International economic law -- i. Legacies of the new international legal order |
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Ii. 'Development' and the ICP -- f. OECD guidelines for multinational enterprises -- III. The modern ICP's role in 'authoring' international law -- a. 'Consultant' or 'observer' status -- b. The WTO's TRIPS agreement -- c. CEO preferences and political spending -- IV. No analogies: the ICP's unique status under international law -- 4 Theorizing international corporate personhood -- I. Conceptualizing the international corporate person -- a. Corporate exceptionalism -- b. Beyond state, individual, and institution -- c. Human problems and corporate conceptions |
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Description based upon print version of record |
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II. Constituency and sovereignty as human problems |
| Subject |
Persons (International law)
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Corporation law.
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Corporation law
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Persons (International law)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000390100 |
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1000390101 |
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