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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 …
Interview: The Business Of Peace, Madeleine Albright, Former Secretary Of State, B. Joseph White
Interview: The Business Of Peace, Madeleine Albright, Former Secretary Of State, B. Joseph White
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
I think the thing that we have really seen, Joe, recently, is the fact that we have global companies that are situated everywhere and are very much a part of the societies in which they operate. The way that they can contribute is by really embedding themselves in the local communities and by providing economic support within those communities to help mitigate some of the aspects of poverty within that particular milieu where they are operating. They can contribute by basically making it clear to people that we are all part of the same story. Just because you may be …