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Business As Usual: Hobby Lobby And The Purpose Of Corporate Rights, Dalia Tsuk Mitchell
Business As Usual: Hobby Lobby And The Purpose Of Corporate Rights, Dalia Tsuk Mitchell
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This article explores the interdependence of the discourse of corporate rights and the law of corporate purpose. I argue that the history of corporate rights reflects changing reactions of the U.S. Supreme Court to social, political, and cultural concerns, each reaction offering a different purpose for corporations in our modern society. At the turn of the twentieth century, in response to fears about the advance of socialism, the Court used liberal assumptions to justify protecting the publicly held corporation’s property rights as derived from the rights of individual shareholders. In so doing, the Court helped turn the corporation, with its …
The Long Lingering Shadow: Law, Liberalism, And Cultures Of Racial Hierarchy And Identity In The Americas, Robert J. Cottrol
The Long Lingering Shadow: Law, Liberalism, And Cultures Of Racial Hierarchy And Identity In The Americas, Robert J. Cottrol
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This is an article on race relations and comparative legal history. It contrasts the law of race and slavery in three Latin American nations, Brazil, Colombia, and Venezuela, with the parallel history in the United States. The article examines the Afro-Latin experience as a critical issue in its own right and as a way to better inform our discussion of racial hierarchy, identity, and legal remedy in the United States. This article examines the paradoxical role played by liberal legal and cultural norms in the United States. It shows how liberalism helped create a system of castelike separation between black …
The Long Lingering Shadow: Law, Liberalism, And Cultures Of Racial Hierarchy And Identity In The Americas, Robert J. Cottrol
The Long Lingering Shadow: Law, Liberalism, And Cultures Of Racial Hierarchy And Identity In The Americas, Robert J. Cottrol
GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works
This is an Article on race relations and comparative legal history. It contrasts the law of race and slavery in three Latin American nations, Brazil, Colombia, and Venezuela, with the parallel history in the United States. The Article examines the Afro-Latin experience as a critical issue in its own right and as a way to better inform our discussion of racial hierarchy, identity, and legal remedy in the United States. This Article examines the paradoxical role played by liberal legal and cultural norms in the United States. It shows how liberalism helped create a system of castelike separation between black …