Last Thoughts on Corporate Personhood

I am glad to be able to say that my perception of corporate personhood that I had coming into this course has been reshaped radically through learning about the complexities inherent in corporate governance. Better understanding the tensions between different key actors such as directors, shareholders, and management, has helped me surpass my formerly simplistic notion […]

Discussion Activity 4.2

I don’t think the corporate personhood should be abandoned despite the issues related to it that we have studied this term. One reason is the fact that the legal concept of corporate personhood is now so pervasive globally that we would be doing a disservice to our own corporations by limiting their rights to a […]

Nevsun case

As a student with an interest in international human rights law and international criminal law, I spend a lot of time in this course thinking about regulation of corporations domestically and on an international level. The Eritrea mining case happening in BC currently gives me some hope regarding the potential corporate accountability for Canadian corporations […]