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Corporate Personhood and Religious Liberty
2014This chapter examines the claim at the heart of Hobby Lobby: do corporations have a right to exercise religion? Gans says no, because this is a personal right tied to conscience, conviction, and human dignity. No court has ever protected the right of businesses to practice religion.
David H. Gans, Ilya Shapiro
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Corporate Personhood and the Corporate Responsibility to Race
Journal of Business Ethics, 2018Often overlooked in studies of the corporation is the recognition that the modern corporate form and its power are rooted in the issue of race, and more specifically, in racial oppression. The racialized roots of the corporation become exposed when we acknowledge the significance of slavery and the Fourteenth Amendment to the evolution of the corporate
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Life Writing and Corporate Personhood
Biography, 2014This introduction outlines different manifestations of corporate personhood, including advertising, skinvertising, activist corporate impersonation, and the equation of corporations with celebrity CEOs. We contextualize corporate personhood in relation to recent attempts to claim rights for fetuses, along with more progressive articulations of ...
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The Corporate Personhood Two-Step
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2017The corporation cannot exist without founders complying explicitly with the requirements for incorporation provided by state statutes. The artificial entity theory acknowledges that a corporation does not exist until its founders meet all requirements for corporate formation imposed by the state.
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Of Corporations, Courts, Personhood, and Morality
Business Ethics Quarterly, 2015ABSTRACT:Since the dawn of capitalism, corporations have been regarded by the law as separate legal “persons.” Corporate “personhood” has nonetheless remained controversial, and our understanding of corporate personhood often influences our thinking about the social responsibilities of corporations. This essay, written in honor of Prof.
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The four functions of corporate personhood
2013In this article I argue that the legal device of creating separate juridical “persons” for certain business activities serves at least four functions that became especially important to business organizers during and after the industrial revolution, and that those functions are still important to most large, publicly-traded corporations.
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The Ambiguous Significance of Corporate Personhood
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2001Political controversies over the place of the business corporation in American society and the appropriate objectives of corporate law have been going on for a long time. Proponents of shareholder primacy have argued that shareholder wealth maximization should guide corporate law.
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The Metaphysics and Politics of Corporate Personhood
Erkenntnis, 2014This paper consists of brief critical comments on Chapter 8, “Personifying Group Agents”, of Christian List’s and Philip Pettit’s book Group Agency (2011). A first set of objections concerns the chapter’s history of ideas. List and Pettit present the history of the idea of corporate personhood as divided between “intrinsicist” and “performative ...
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