The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu The leading online blog in the fields of corporate governance and financial regulation. Sat, 30 May 2026 11:30:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.8 https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/cropped-photography-4-e1706898544564-1-32x32.png Corporate National Identity: Contestation and Reconfiguration in an Age of Weaponized Interdependence – The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu 32 32 Corporate National Identity: Contestation and Reconfiguration in an Age of Weaponized Interdependence https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2026/05/28/corporate-national-identity-contestation-and-reconfiguration-in-an-age-of-weaponized-interdependence/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=corporate-national-identity-contestation-and-reconfiguration-in-an-age-of-weaponized-interdependence https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2026/05/28/corporate-national-identity-contestation-and-reconfiguration-in-an-age-of-weaponized-interdependence/#respond Thu, 28 May 2026 11:31:56 +0000 https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/?p=181507?d=20260527190340EDT Posted by Curtis J. Milhaupt (Stanford Law School), Mariana Pargendler (Harvard Law School), and Dan W. Puchniak (Yung Pung How School of Law), on Thursday, May 28, 2026
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Curtis J. Milhaupt is the William F. Baxter – Visa International Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, Mariana Pargendler is the Beneficial Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, and Dan W. Puchniak is the Yung Pung How Professor of Law at the Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management University. This post is based on their recent paper.

What makes a corporation American, Italian, Chinese, or any other nationality – and who gets to decide?

In a new paper, we examine how the national identity of corporations is increasingly contested in the contemporary global economy. Corporate national identity (CNI) can no longer be understood as a fixed legal attribute determined solely by jurisdiction of incorporation, location of administrative headquarters, or corporate control through equity ownership. Rather, CNI emerges from the interaction of four interrelated facets – legal, economic, (geo)political, and symbolic – whose relative salience varies across contexts and over time. The central implication is that corporate nationality is not a unitary status, but a contingent and contested construct.

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