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Corporate Personhood as the New Leviathan
This essay situates Lisa Siraganian’s important book, Modernism and the Meaning of Corporate Persons, within the law and literature field and in relation to the more specialized subfields of literature and liberalism, legalism, and critical race studies of fugitive property.
Emily Apter
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The idea of the corporate person continues to present problems for politics, especially through the framing of corporate power and responsibilities as legal questions. Meanwhile, traditional theories of liberalism and pluralism struggle to comprehend the corporation as either a participant in politics or a site where politics occur.
Steven Anthony Gerencser
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Epilogue on “Corporate Personhood” and Humanity [PDF]
In discussions of corporate criminal liability, the question of corporations’ moral personhood often plays a central role. These concluding remarks point out some troubling repercussions of the notion of personhood on our conception of human beings and their moral status.
Meir Dan‐Cohen
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Occupy Santa Clara? Corporate Personhood Reconsidered
The Occupy Wall Street Movement and the controversial Supreme Court decision in Citizens United have combined to bring back to public debate an issue long considered non-controversial: whether private corporations are legal persons. This paper argues that a complete understanding of the debate requires analysis of four distinct approaches to the ...
Stephen F. Diamond
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Corporate purpose and personhood: an introduction [PDF]
Pollman, Elizabeth, Thompson, Robert B.
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Legal Persons as Bearers of Rights Under the ECHR
Fundamental rights are typically conceived primarily as rights of individual human beings. At the same time, legal persons are recognised regularly as bearers of constitutional rights and even of international human rights.
Lorenz Dopplinger
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It is increasingly clear that autonomous agents can commit international crimes such as torture and genocide. This article aims to construct ‘electronic liability’ for such international crimes. It will argue that it is not sufficient to hold the persons
Mia Swart
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This story is inspired by the growing feasibility of Decentralised Autonomous Corporations (DACs), operating by means of distributed blockchain technologies.
James Danielsen
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Imagining Corporate Personhood [PDF]
Peer Reviewed ; http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/109353/1/plar12070 ...
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