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
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
⏰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
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.
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
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
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
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
@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”.
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
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
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
@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