Disabling Corporate Sovereignty in a Transnational Lawsuit
Disabling Corporate Sovereignty in a Transnational Lawsuit
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在跨国诉讼中削弱公司主权
DOI：
10.1525/pol.2006.29.1.23
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发表时间：
2006
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影响因子：
3.5
通讯作者：
S. Sawyer
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作者：
S. Sawyer
这篇文章探讨了代表30，000厄瓜多尔人对雪佛龙德士古公司提起诉讼，要求在该国亚马逊地区进行工业污染的公开诉讼程序。它提出的问题是，在界定（和否认）公司主权和有罪不罚、公司纠缠和问责制方面，起作用的是什么样的法律的和道德制度。索耶争辩说，虽然公司作为一个主权实体（“自然人”）的概念有助于雪佛龙德士古公司管理层和法律的顾问回避厄瓜多尔环境退化的罪责，但位于另一个散漫的想象中的公司主权的概念也是原告及其要求严格问责的基础。
This article examines the opening proceedings of a lawsuit against Chevron-Texaco filed on behalf of 30,000 Ecuadorians for industrial contamination in the country's Amazonian region. It asks what are the legal and ethical regimes at play in defining (and denying) corporate sovereignty and impunity, corporate entanglements and accountabilities. Sawyer argues that while the notion of the corporation as a sovereign embodied entity ("natural person") serves ChevronTexaco management and legal counsel in sidestepping culpability for environmental degradation in Ecuador, the same notion of embodied corporate sovereignty situated in another discursive imaginary serves as foundational to the plaintiffs and their demands for exacting accountability.