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Conceptions Of The Corporation And The Prospects Of Sustainable Peace, Jeffrey Nesteruk
Conceptions Of The Corporation And The Prospects Of Sustainable Peace, Jeffrey Nesteruk
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
This Article examines the role of corporate law in promoting sustainable peace. The Author argues that corporate legal theory can make a distinctive contribution to a more peaceful world by exposing some deeper roots of corporate law doctrines. Beginning with a brief overview of the corporation in legal discourse, the Article addresses the corporation as property, person, contract, and community. Next, the Article explores the significance of legal language, detailing the ways the law, through language, constructs and impacts the "character," "culture," and "community" of society. The Article then analyzes the dominance that the property and contract conceptions of the …