The book offers an analysis of common law, contract law, property law, agency law, partnership law, trust law, and corporate statutory law using judicial rulings that proves shareholders do not own corporations, that there is no separation of ownership and control, and shareholders are not investors in corporations.

0. The Ground Floor: Jurisdiction, Common Law, and Contract Law Part I Foundations: Property Law, Agency Law, Trust Laws, and Partnership Law 1. Property and Property Law 2. Agency and Agency Law 3. Trusts and Trust Law 4. Partnerships and Partnership Law Part II Corporations, Corporate Law, and the Contradictions of Corporate Law 5. Corporations and Corporate Law 6. The Contradictions of Corporate Law Part III Sociology, Culture, and Corporations 7. The Social Construction of the Social Reality of Shareholders, Directors, Owners of shares, and Investors in Shares 8. Power and the Cultural Reproduction of Shareholders, Directors, Owners of Shares, and Investors in Shares 9. Reconstructing Corporations, Shareholders, Directors, Owners of Shares, and Investors in Shares Part IV Corporatehood, The Corporation as a Legal Person, and The Theory of the Firm 10. The Corporation as a Legal Person 11. The Theory of the Firm Epilogue