The Supranational Corporation -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1 The Corporation: From the "Original Sin" (Santa Clara) to Right of Personhood (Roe) -- Introduction -- The Corporation: Natural versus Juridical Personhood -- Fetal Personhood and the Law Before and After Roe -- Some Further Arguments Regarding the Right to Life of the Preborn in Common Law -- Arguments about the Possible Introduction of "Human Life Amendments" into Law -- Personhood and its Problems -- Personhood as "Categorization" not "Recognition": the Source of Corporate Power -- 2 The Corporation: Controlling Public Health and Other Basic Rights -- Individuals and the Corporation -- Corporate Activities and their "Toxic Trespass" -- Pulp and Paper Mills and Mercury Poisoning: The Canadian Case of Grassy Narrows and White Dog -- Central and South American Cases: Attacks on Health through Mining and Extractive Industries -- A Brief Overview of the Constitutional Protection Available for the Environment in Colombia and Ecuador -- Corporate Agribusiness and Health -- Corporate Crime as Human/Animal Oppression -- From Big Tobacco to the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control -- The Corporation and Its Internal Stakeholders -- Concluding Thoughts -- 3 The Corporation and the State: A Question of Power -- Introduction -- "Corporate Clout" in a Lawless World -- Existing International Laws for State and Corporate Responsibility -- The Corporation as a "Quasi-State" -- The State and the Corporation: Responsibility and Complicity -- Jus Cogens and the Effects of Corporate Activities -- The Impunity of Corporate Criminals and the State -- Corporate Impunity and "Imperial Plunder" -- National Lawyers Guild International Committee -- Corporate/State Crime and Third States Obligations.

Corporate Power and Cosmopolitan Democracy -- Corporations, the State and the "Two Constitutions" -- 4 The Corporation as Criminal -- Introduction: External Stakeholders -- Norms to Restrain Corporate Harms: "Gaps" or Structural Violence? -- Corporate Forward March: From Weedkillers and "Super Insects" -- Pesticides Beyond Agriculture: Corporate Power and Chemical Warfare -- Colonization, Genocide and War Crimes: Germany and the Herero People -- Complicity and Responsibility from Nuremberg to Vietnam -- Corporation as Criminal: Internal Stakeholders -- Corporation as Criminal: Asbestos Imposes Direct and Indirect Harm -- Concluding Thoughts -- 5 The Corporation as a Supranational Power: The European Union -- Introduction -- Europe's Revolt and Resistance to Corporate Power: Theory and the Law -- Revolt and Resistance to Corporate Power in Practice -- Criminal Precedents and Corporate Disaster in Hungary -- Bayer's Criminal Precedents: Unacknowledged Dangers -- Corporate Power and the "European Dream" in Conflict -- The Roots of "Europe, Inc." in the American Dream -- Corporate Responsibility under ATCA -- Corporate Criminality, Fitness to Rule and "Tempering Globalization" -- Corporations are Unfit to Hold Their Present Ruling Position -- 6 The Corporation as a Supranational Power -- Introduction -- Climate Change and Corporate Culpability -- Climate Change and State Corporate Relations -- "Nature's Trust" Against the Power of Drones and Caterpillars -- Corporate Complicity in Attacks Against the Right to Life -- Legal Versus Natural Persons -- The New Supranationalism and Corporate Attacks on Civil and Political Rights: The EU and the US on Conflicting Trajectories -- Europe's Protection of Human Rights Against Multinationals.

The United States and the Reach and Limits of Supranational Power -- Supranational Corporate Power and Post-National Citizenship -- From Local to Global Citizenship Against Corporate Power: The Occupy Movement -- Concluding Thoughts -- Appendix I: Cases -- Appendix II: Documents -- References -- Index.