Notes on the Book
From the Preface: "This book has been written for students of corporation law, using "students" in the broadest sense to mean anyone who wishes to gain a more sophisticated understanding of corporation law, more specifically, how legal education imagines the institution of the corporation. Although corporations are everywhere in the United States, thinking about the institution is quite difficult. "
From the Introduction: "In both theater and corporation law, different characters tend to act in familiar, if perhaps not precisely predictable, ways. We understand what heroes and villains typically do, and that understanding allows us, relatively quickly, to understand what the play (or film, television show, or especially cartoon) is about. Law can be learned in much the same way. . . . while people do interesting and often funny things inside companies, their actions are rarely truly surprising. Corporate actors have typical motivations and conflicts, and their conflicts tend to be resolved in customary ways. Corporate actors are, in short, stock characters, and their interactions tend to follow familiar plot lines. " |
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Kind Words
"It is this sort of thinking for which Weber and Durkheim, even Marx, were reaching when they established the modern social sciences on the loose sand of the Between of structures and individuals. The looming power of the structures of modern capitalism was, as Weber put it, an enormous cosmos that clouded the ability of individuals to find their way."
-- Charles Lemert "In this brilliant and original book David Westbrook makes visible the diverse logics that organize actors even in settings such as the corporation where we might assume one single such logic." -- Saskia Sassen |
Publication Data
Paradigm Publishers 2007
(Routledge) Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-59451-404-3 Paperback ISBN: 978- 159451-405-0 |
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