Duncan I. Wallace

Lecturer, Monash Law. Corporate theory, Corporate history, Co-operatives, Legal philosophy.
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[The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand @ConversationEDU]

Corporations are 'legal persons' under the law. But their ability to be 'owned' by shareholders embeds a system of exploitation at the heart of capitalism. @MonashUni https://t.co/2UfFvH0eEv

[Duncan I. Wallace @diwall8]

Very excited to see my article, ‘The Reality of Shareholder Ownership: For-profit Corporations as Slaves’, published in the latest issue of the @UNSWLawJournal.

Find the article here: https://t.co/5w6LebUpz5

[888 Coop @888Coop]

⏰New podcast is up!⏰

Talking with @diwall8 about the philosophy of corporations law, Gierke and what it means for #coops and other voluntary associations.

https://t.co/9wTai9zxO7

[Doctoral Forum on Legal Theory @doctoral_forum]

Our panel reading institutions will be led by @alexpdelacruz and @mc_roanna with Micheil Paton, Duncan Wallace and Natalia Zakharchenko, our panelists

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

Today is a shameful day for Finland's & Sweden's political classes. In one fell swoop they demolished a tradition their predecessors built over decades of supporting the rights of oppressed peoples. Denouncing, at the instructions of Erdogan, the brave YPG women fighters tops it.

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Do corporations have rights?

In the linked talk (from July), I discuss two theories of the corporation - one, that they are soulless instruments; the other, that they are rightful organisms. I suggest that the latter understanding is the better one.

https://t.co/jMNQN5IxdO

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What is a corporation?

An influential theory says that a corporation is a "social construction". In the linked talk (from March), I discuss some of the irrational consequences of this theory. I suggest the legal system would work better without it.

https://t.co/dwiOgRZsml

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Join me and call for @UniSuperNews to stop using our retirement savings to $upercharge climate change! #ClimateAction Add your name at https://t.co/2nUTR7SAOc

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Why was the Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney invisible to the law? How is the one-person company legal? Both are due, I argue in this talk, to a theory about the corporation I call the 'social construction theory'. It has its basis, I show, in the 1300s

https://t.co/tAL3l2poPi

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@antonymcmullen @Lizzie_OShea There is hope yet! If they do not begin re-developing the site by 30 June 2022 , they will be forced to rebuild the walls and roof of the pub “as nearly as practicable to the condition they were immediately before their unlawful demolition”.

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The 'biggest land grab in history' is underway. The UN plans to take 30% of the world's land by 2030, displacing 300 million of the planet's best conservationists @Survival #BigGreenLie

[New Economy Journal @NewEconomyJrnl]

When does conservation become dispossession? Duncan Wallace shares concerns about the UN's plan to designate 30% of the Earth as Protected Areas.

He argues this could remove land from traditional owners, with dubious benefits for the local environment.

https://t.co/Awb7T8Wlqv

[Duncan I. Wallace @diwall8]

I just increased my monthly donation to @Wikipedia. Sign up to donate monthly too!! Support free knowledge!! #iloveWikipedia https://t.co/n8Uy6eudTu

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@antonymcmullen @doctorow @mec @NewEconomyJrnl Wow the similarities are uncanny!!

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In case anyone cares about IPAT (neo-malthusian population thing), here's an objection to it I've written up @NewEconomyJrnl https://t.co/BjAaKH25bv

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Text is now also online: https://t.co/GhboQUkxRr

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Check out my talk on the 'Blip of Interest in the Organic Theory of the Corporation' given at #CLTA2020

https://t.co/0Wz8MULr8J

[Duncan I. Wallace @diwall8]

I reread Jeremy England's (@lifelikephysics) essay on the
origins of life yesterday. If you haven't had a chance yet, check it out - it's really extraordinary

https://t.co/EF4fUZMNKU

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Nice one Dad - and well done #gleneura council! @OpturionMark

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@thejunmo @matthewstoller Uber is not profitable

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@port_moresby Janet Abu Lughod, Before European Hegemony. Discusses the black plague, and how, because it started in China, it affected the east more drastically than west, and played an influential role in the rise of the europe