'Corporate Personhood' Book Talk with Professor Susanna Ripken
Date and time
Location
Chapman University
Hugh & Hazel Darling Law Library 1 University Drive Orange, CA 92866Description
Join Chapman University Fowler School of Law Professor Susanna Kim Ripken to discuss her new book from Cambridge University Press, Corporate Personhood. The book talk, hosted by the Darling Law Library, will be followed by a Q&A with Professor Ripken. Refreshments will be served.
About Corporate Personhood
The topic of corporate personhood has captured the attention of many who are concerned about the increasing presence, power, and influence of corporations in modern society. Recent Supreme Court cases like Citizens United, Hobby Lobby, and Masterpiece Cakeshop - which solidified the free speech and religious liberty rights of corporations and their owners - have heightened the controversy over treating corporations as persons under the law. What does it mean to say that the corporation is a person, and why does it matter? In Corporate Personhood, Susanna Kim Ripken addresses these questions and highlights the complexity of the corporate personhood concept. Using a broad, interdisciplinary framework - incorporating law, economics, philosophy, sociology, psychology, organizational theory, political science, and linguistics - this highly original work explores the complex, multidimensional nature of corporate personhood and its implications for corporate rights and duties.
About Susanna Ripken
Professor Susanna Kim Ripken teaches various business law courses at Chapman University's Fowler School of Law, where she has received the Professor of the Year Award and the Scudder Award for excellence in teaching, scholarship and service. Professor Ripken completed a double major in English and Psychology at Stanford University, graduating with distinction, and received her Juris Doctor from UCLA School of Law, where she served as an editor of the UCLA Law Review and earned membership in the Order of the Coif. Professor Ripken clerked for the Honorable Robert Boochever on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Following her judicial clerkship, Professor Ripken joined the Orange County office of O'Melveny & Myers LLP, where she handled corporate and securities transactions for large corporations and business entities.
--
Space is limited. RSVP now!
Disability Services will be provided upon request. If you require specific accommodations for this event, your request must be submitted no later than 7 business days prior to the event.