From railroads to smart phones, both basic needs and delights have been served by corporate operations. But the corporation has also catalysed menace, orchestrating exploitation of some people on behalf of others, polluting nature and culture, and subverting democratic politics. The achievements and disgraces of corporate conduct can both be attributed, in part, to its legal design. This book is an interrogation of that design, and an exploration of reforms that could improve upon it. To thrive as a species, to prosper as a nation, to flourish as individuals, we must have what is good in corporate law. And we must be rid of what is corrupting in it. This book’s approach to the corporation is law and legal theory. The conclusion that something is seriously wrong with our corporate system, and that it can be fixed, is reached not by trying to audit utility and harm, but by critically engaging core arguments about what corporate law is, what it does, and what it might do. It is corporate law that makes the corporate soul, and a change to corporate law can remake it in a different image.