1st Edition

Evil Corporations Law, Culpability and Regulation

Edited By Penny Crofts Copyright 2025
298 Pages
by Routledge

298 Pages
by Routledge

298 Pages
by Routledge

This book elaborates and interrogates the idea of evil corporations from a diverse range of disciplines. There has long been awareness of systemic harms inflicted by corporations, but this awareness has rarely led to any effective legal means to prevent and/or respond adequately to them. Lawyers and legal theorists appear to be stuck asking the same questions, and giving the same ineffective... Read more

Introduction

Penny Crofts 

Part 1: Doomed to be Evil? 

Chapter 1 Can capitalism ever be other than evil? 

James Martel 

Chapter 2 Can a corporation be evil?

Luke Russell 

Chapter 3 Corporate Vice

Stephanie Collins 

Part 2: Corporate Harms 

Chapter 4 Ecocide, Evil and the Corporation

Joanna Kyriakakis 

Chapter 5 Prescription Medicine, Adverse Effects and Economies of Death

Marc Trabsky and Jacinthe Flore 

Chapter 6 The Corporate Evil of Unsafe Products: Strict liability, negligence and the expressive force of law

Hui Chia and Jeannie Paterson 

Chapter 7 Data Brokers: Trading on Trust

Olivia Dixon 

Part 3: A mechanics of corporate harms 

Chapter 8 Evil Corporations in Horror Fiction

Penny Crofts 

Chapter 9 Corporate Office, Corporate Irresponsibility and the Constitutive Vicariousness of Corporate Power

Timothy D Peters 

Chapter 10 Blindness without a Will: The Dilemma of Corporate Collective Knowledge and Intention in Succession

Lisa Siraganian

Chapter 11 Corporate misuse of legal professional privilege: concealing and constituting crimes

Liz Campbell 

Part 4: Future approaches 

Chapter 12 The Monster Within: Representing Corporate Evil

Mihailis E. Diamantis 

Chapter 13 Corporations as Haunted Entities: Conceptualising Responsibility for Historical Harm

Penny Crofts and Honni van Rijswijk 

Chapter 14 Corporate evil: a story of systems and silences

Elise Bant 

Chapter 15 Redeeming Corporations: Designing legal interventions for complex adaptive systems

Rebecca Wallis and Simon Bronitt 

Chapter 16 ‘Corporate Culture’ is The Problem, but Can it be Regulated?

Vicky Comino

Biography

Penny Crofts is Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Technology Sydney, Australia.