ABSTRACT
Granting fundamental rights to companies – nature of freedom as a fundamental value in EU law – intrinsic value of protecting freedom of individuals and instrumental value of protecting freedom of companies – Dan Cohen and rationale for protecting rights of organisations – transformation of the right to conduct business in EU law in Alemo Herron and subsequent case law – from right to do that which the law allows to right to be free from constraints – whose freedom is at stake when a company’s right to conduct business is protected – theories of the firm – company as a nexus of contracts or as a subject of rights on its own behalf – company as a locus of authority and as a jurisdiction – protecting freedom of company to restrict freedom of human beings – ideological underpinnings of extensive protection of freedom of companies – dehumanisation of fundamental rights.
Eduardo Gill-Pedro, Whose Freedom is it Anyway? The Fundamental Rights of Companies in EU Law, European Constitutional Law Review, https://doi.org/10.1017/S1574019622000153. Published online by Cambridge University Press 7 July.
First posted 2022-07-11 17:00:21
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