Wendy Brown: When Firms Become Persons and Persons Become Firms (2015) [LEC, ENG]

Speaker : Professor Wendy Brown Recorded on 1 July 2015 at Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House In the United States, the extension of civil liberties to corporations is transforming democracy through rights adjudication. Best known in this regard is Citizens United v. The Federal Election Commission, the 2010 Supreme Court decision permitting corporate funding to flood the U.S. electoral process on the basis of corporate rights to free speech. In 2014, Burwell vs Hobby Lobby granted firms the right to the fr