Of the more than 600 cases the Supreme Court heard dealing with 14th amendment’s guarantee of equal rights between 1868 and 1912, less than 5 percent involved African-Americans at all. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyOne of the most remarkable stories in the book relates to the fabled Supreme Court advocate Roscoe Conkling. Of the many fascinating surprises of “We the Corporations,” none is more consequential than its rejection of the conventional wisdom that treating corporations as legal “persons” has fueled the corporate rights movement. Professor Winkler convincingly demonstrates that the more expansive theories of corporate rights often rest on piercing the so-called corporate veil and allowing the corporation to effectively enforce the rights of its shareholders in its own name. Ironically, the same corporatists who have embraced piercing the corporate veil for the purpose of securing new rights are the most vociferous in enforcing the veil to protect the corporation from any possible liabilities.

Source: New York Times February 23, 2018 20:26 UTC