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SUMMARY:The corporation and law in the making of global capitalism - Dr Gr
 ietje Baars\, The City Law School\, City\, University of London 
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CONTACT:Surabhi Ranganathan
DESCRIPTION:Dr Baars will draw on their recent book\, The Corporation\, La
 w and Capitalism\, which offers a radical Marxist perspective on the role 
 of law in the global political economy. Closing a major gap in historical-
 materialist scholarship\, the book demonstrates how the corporation\, capi
 talism’s main engine from city-state and colonial times to the present m
 ultinational\, 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 r
 ights and war crimes trials\, from the Nuremberg industrialists’ trials 
 to current efforts. They show that precisely because of law’s relationsh
 ip to capital\, law cannot prevent or remedy the ‘externalities’ produ
 ced by corporate capitalism. This realisation will generate the space requ
 ired to formulate a different answer to ‘the question of the corporation
 ’\, and to global corporate capitalism more broadly\, outside of the law
 .
LOCATION:Lauterpacht Centre for International Law\, 5 Cranmer Rd
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