Corporate Authority over Public Matters: US-American Oil Companies and Transnational Legal Ordering in Ecuador

This is a PhD Research Project being conducted by Michael Bader. Michael’s project explores the ways in which global corporations assert public authority and co-create relations of law, particularly in their expansion toward the Third World. The story begins amidst the globalisation of the US-American oil industry after the First World War and narrows in on the trajectory of one global oil company and its transnational movements in the period of decolonisation.

Image: Community members overlooking one of 900 open oil pits in the Oriente Basin.