Abstract
UCLA Law Professor Adam Winkler has published an excellent book on the history of corporate rights. The book, ‘We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights’, reveals ‘the secret history of one of America’s most successful yet least-known “civil rights movements” – the centuries-long struggle for equal rights for corporations’. The book has been highly praised by some of the greatest minds in corporate and constitutional law, and the praise is well-deserved. However, the book is not without its controversial assertions, particularly when it comes to its characterizations of some of the key components of corporate personhood and corporate personality theory. This response essay will focus on unpacking some of these assertions, hopefully helping to ensure that advocates who rely on the book will be informed as to alternative approaches to key issues …
Padfield, Stefan J, Does Corporate Personhood Matter? A Review of and Response to Adam Winkler’s ‘We the Corporations’ (October 1, 2018). 20 Transactions: Tennessee Journal of Business Law (forthcoming).
First posted 2018-10-24 05:51:02
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