Corporate Personhood as the New Leviathan

This essay situates Lisa Siraganian’s important book, Modernism and the Meaning of Corporate Persons, within the law and literature field and in relation to the more specialized subfields of literature and liberalism, legalism, and critical race studies of fugitive property. It discusses Siraganian’s nuanced account of corporate personhood, exploring its implications for legal arguments pertaining to fetal personhood post-Dobbs, and for broader political struggles over dignity, recognition, due process, and bodily autonomy