Corporate personhood or juridical personality is the legal notion that a juridical person such as a corporation, separately from its associated human beings (like owners, managers, or employees), has at least some of the legal rights and responsibilities enjoyed by natural persons.

2014年7月28日 · Are corporations people? The U.S. Supreme Court says they are, at least for some purposes. And in the past four years, the high court has dramatically expanded corporate rights.

2014年4月8日 · Generally, corporate personhood allows companies to hold property, enter contracts, and to sue and be sued just like a human being. But of course some human rights make no sense for a corporation, like the right to marry, to parent a child, or to vote.

2023年1月6日 · When people complain about “dark money” in politics, they often bring up the concept of “corporate personhood.” That is largely due to the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Citizens United v. FEC (2010), which held that corporations and other associations are protected by the First Amendment and that election spending is speech.

2022年9月19日 · Corporate personhood protects corporations from unfair treatment by the government. These protections are important for corporations to operate successfully. People who are against corporate personhood claim that the legal concept ignores an important difference between businesses and people.

2018年6月15日 · Under U.S. law, some essential rights of the 14th amendment belong not only to American citizens, but also corporations—thanks to a few key Supreme Court cases and a controversial legal concept...

2024年3月16日 · Late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Supreme Court decisions showed a marked friendliness to the idea of corporate personhood. They showed much less inclination to use the Fourteenth Amendment to protect racial minorities, even in the face of the “entrenchment of Jim Crow” and Chinese exclusion.

In this Article, I focus on the historical evolution of the corporate form, and specifi-cally on how and why corporations have tended to develop clearly identifiable corporate personas.

2011年10月24日 · Among the demands of Occupy Wall Street protesters is this: an end to corporate personhood. That demand has been spelled out on protesters' signs, like one that reads, "I'll believe...

Corporate personhood is the ethical and legal concept according to which corporations may be treated — morally or legally — as entities independent of the human beings associated with them. In particular, this means that corporations have certain rights (such as the right to own property) and can be held accountable for their actions.