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39 Seattle U. L. Rev. 423 (2015-2016)
The English East India Company and the Modern Corporation: Legacies, Lessons, and Limitations

handle is hein.journals/sealr39 and id is 433 raw text is: The English East India Company and the Modern Corporation: Legacies, Lessons, and Limitations Philip J. Stern* CONTENTS INTRODUCTION .......................................... .....423 1. COMPANY AS MERCHANT. ....................................425 II. COMPANY AS SOVEREIGN ......................... .................433 Ill. COMPANY AS INTERNATIONAL ACTOR................ ........440 CONCLUSIONS9 ................................................444 INTRODUCTION The English East India Company was first chartered in 1600, en- dured until the late nineteenth century, and, in a clever act of corporate resurrection, has even recently returned as a global, upmarket retail outlet selling fine foods and commemorative coins.' It has also endured in the popular imagination and culture, churning out heroes and villains alike in film, television, and video games.2 The script writer for a forthcoming BBC miniseries, in which the East India Company stars as the prime an- tagonist, even noted recently that the Company was like the CIA, the . Sally Dalton Robinson Associate Professor of History, Department of History, Duke University. The author would like to thank Chuck O'Kelley, all of the participants in the 2015 Berle VII Sympo- sium at Seattle University School of Law, as well as Catherine Connell, Justin Olson, and the rest of the team at the Seattle University Law Review for their helpful and insightful editorial interventions. 1. East India Company Returns After 135-Year Absence, BBC (Aug. 13, 20 10), http://www.bbc.com/news/world-south-asia-10971109; see also THE EAST INDIA COMPANY, http://www.theeastindiacompany.com (last visited Dec. 23, 2015). 2. E.g., BEYOND THE MASK (Bums Family Studios 2015); PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: AT WORLD'S END (Walt Disney Pictures 2007); EAST INDIA COMPANY (Nitro Games 2009). 423

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