The modern corporation is one of the most consequential—and conceptually strange—institutions of global life: a legal person, a private association endowed with public powers, an engine of accumulation that also governs, litigates, plans, and claims rights. This graduate seminar examines the corporation as a political form and a historical agent. This course brings political theory and intellectual history into conversation with legal history and the political economy of capitalism to ask how corporate power has been made thinkable, lawful, and durable.