This chapter reviews dominant theories and practices in the fields of international relations and international law, identifying the problem of the state in international relations and the problem of the subject in international law. These problems underlie the great irresponsibility and unaccountability of corporate power. State-centricity in both disciplines obscures the empirical significance of the corporation as both an economic and a political actor and the contribution of transnational corporations and corporate laws to environmental crises. The transnational corporation remains the elephant in the room, blinded as the dominant ontologies and epistemologies of these disciplines are to the fundamentally political nature of corporate power and corporate law.