Multinational Corporations: A Sovereign, Legal (and Nefarious) Power?

The Endowed Chair in Criminology and Criminal Justice lecture will take place Wednesday, November 28 at 7:00 pm in the Ted Daigle Auditorium in Edmund Casey Hall.  

Dr. Alain Deneault will deliver his lecture "Multinational Corporations: A Sovereign, Legal (and Nefarious) Power?" and a reception will follow.

Over the years, the writing of law and the complicity of states have allowed multinational companies to engage legally in a number of nefarious activities, including: plotting to fix oil prices, collaborating with officially racist political regimes, corrupting dictators and political representatives, conquering territories through military intervention, relocating assets in tax havens and infrastructure in free zones, among others. In this Endowed Chair lecture, Dr. Alain Deneault will explore multinationals as new sovereign powers unfolding on a scale that escapes attention of public authorities. He will be using as a case study the French based multinational Total, an energy company currently active in more than 130 countries.

Alain Deneault is the Endowed Chair in Criminology & Criminal Justice at St. Thomas University in Fredericton. He is also a researcher at the Collège international de philosophie in Paris. He has written several books about tax havens, including Offshore, Canada: A New tax Haven, Imperial Canada Inc. and Legalizing Theft and on the sociology of power, Mediocracy.