‘Making Sense of the Corporation in International Law: Notes on Comparative Reading’
A caricature inspired by the myth of Sisyphus to denounce child labor in capitalism, c. 1913. Source: Herbert Raymond Johnson - Library of Congress.
By Haris Jamil and Sundhya Pahuja
In this review essay, Jamil and Pahuja take three recent books, each offering an example of how to think about the relationship between international law and the corporation. The three books are Grietje Baars, Corporations, Law and Capitalism: A Radical Perspective on the Role of Law in the Global Political Economy(Brill 2019), Doreen Lustig, Veiled Power: International Law and the Private Corporation 1886–1981 (Oxford University Press 2020), and Anil Yilmaz Vastardis, The Nationality of Corporate Investors under International Investment Law (Hart Publishing 2020). Here, Jamil and Pahuja adopt what they call a comparative method to read the three books together.
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Citation
Jamil, Haris and Pahuja, Sundhya, ‘Making Sense of the Corporation in International Law: Notes on Comparative Reading’ (Review Essay of three books, Baars, Vastardis, Lustig), (2025) 28 Journal of International Economic Law 339-358. [Link to the publication]
