Boundaries of Companies

Boundaries of Companies Presented by: Mrs. Achiume Date: 17 October 2024, 6:00 pm–7:00 pm OUTLINE - 1. International Law, Empire, Borders and Migration - 2. Mapping Corporate Borders - 3. Justice Implications International Law, Empire, Borders and Migration - Migration as Decolonization, 71 Stanford Law Review 1509 (2019) • Colonialism and international law were mutually constitutive and international legal doctrine remains fundamentally structured by colonial and related imperial logics • Contemporary sovereignty doctrine-including relating to the right to excludeviolates liberal democratic principles and sustains neocolonial domination • Former colonial powers (First World nation-states) have no right to exclude citizens of formerly colonized nations (Third World nation-states). • - Third World unauthorized migration as de/anti-colonial In the era of formal colonial empire, the racial operation and function of borders was perfected through facially race-neutral legal categories, doctrines, and policies (e.g. Citizenship, nationality, sovereignty doctrine, domestic jurisdiction) - This racial infrastructure (including race as a border) remains legally embedded in contemporary frameworks, including international human rights law and refugee law - Racial borders as sites of historic and contemporary injustice Corporate Borders - The facets of international borders that are materially shaped by transnational corporations or that are otherwise tailored to benefit transnational corporations and the elites that control them. International Borders At a minimum: • Geographic boundaries of nation-states; • Legal and political institutions that determine the terms and bounds of national membership, and that shape and govern interconnection among different national jurisdictions (e.g. sovereignty, citizenship, nationality, race) Jurisdiction - The authority of the state over persons, places or events - Determined by: - • Territory • Nationality Mapping corporate borders entails mapping the extent to which and means through which corporations materially shape and leverage: • Geographic boundaries of nation-states • Legal and political border institutions and the national jurisdictions they construct and connect Corporate Borders - Articulating/materializing the (inter)national border - Delimiting the (inter)national border, delimiting jurisdictions - Jurisdictional arbitrage/Jurisdictional engineering