Personifying the Rule of Law: Warren Hastings and the Cultural Trials of Corporate Sovereignty
Law, Culture and the Humanities
Published online on July 17, 2025
Abstract
Law, Culture and the Humanities, Volume 22, Issue 1, Page 4-20, February 2026.
This commentary examines how the figure of Warren Hastings came to personify the contradictions of imperial rule of law under the British East India Company. At once a mercantile corporation and an imperial regime, the Company blurred the boundaries ...
This commentary examines how the figure of Warren Hastings came to personify the contradictions of imperial rule of law under the British East India Company. At once a mercantile corporation and an imperial regime, the Company blurred the boundaries ...