Modernism and the meaning of corporate persons
Long before the US Supreme Court announced that corporate persons freely "speak" with money in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (2010), they elaborated the legal fiction of American corporate personhood in Santa Clara v. Southern Pacific Railroad (1886). Yet endowi…
"The personhood of corporations has always been a vexing puzzle for legal scholars, but in the last few years the dilemma over corporate personhood has moved well beyond academic circles and has become a controversial topic among wide swaths of the American public. Perhaps the s…
"[T]he aim of transitional justice is to address extraordinary wrongs committed -- the atrocities -- and the need to take measures to prevent their reoccurrence. The notion of corporate accountability and transitional justice is less about inventing new forms of justice mechanis…
"As corporations and government agencies replace human employees with online customoer service and automated phone systems, we become accustomed to doing business with nonhuman agents. If artificial intelligence (AI) technology advances as today's leading researchers predict, th…
