How you feel about this work probably depends on how you feel about the use of the Constitution as an anti-regulatory tool and the idea of corporations as constitutional �persons.� Tribe has taken a strong view of individual rights; his view of corporate rights is similar, and in this capacity he has at times advanced constitutional arguments that might invalidate great parts of the administrative state, in a manner recalling the Supreme Court�s jurisprudence of the nineteen-twenties and thirties. In that sense, the current condemnation of Tribe can be seen as part of a larger progressive backlash against the use of the Bill of Rights to serve corporate interests.
Saturday, May 9, 2015
"Did Laurence Tribe Sell Out?"
Asks lawprof Tim Wu in The New Yorker. Key paragraph:
Labels:
corporations are people,
ethics,
law
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