[p2p-research] [Commoning] important questions for the p2p movement

[Michel Bauwens]

treatment and literature opposing personhood of corporations, see here at
http://p2pfoundation.net/Personhood_of_Corporations

On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 9:36 PM, j.martin.pedersen <
m.pedersen at lancaster.ac.uk> wrote:

>
>
> On 28/12/10 09:34, Brigitte Kratzwald wrote:
> >>
> >>> So in my opinion, enterprises can and must be commoners
> >>
> >> Enterprises? You mean entrepeneurs?
> >
> > No, I mean enterprises - as juridical persons (is this correct English?)
> -
> > because it are the enterprises that use resources, pollute water and air,
> > etc. We should not reduce it to the individual responsibility of the
> > entrepreneurs, but it should be part of the constitution of enterprises.
>
> It is often just called "legal person" (as opposed to a natural person).
>
> A "subversion" of the function of legal persons is an interesting idea,
> as the concept has been debated and criticised for the very obvious
> reason that it lets individuals commit crimes (or rather order them
> committed) with impunity, hiding behind the corporation, yet actually
> being the ones gaining from the illegal activities. (See also The
> Corporation (book or film) for a perspective on how that legal person
> acts in the social world).
>
> For instance, “increasingly, global capital claims a new order of
> international rights for itself in ways that have profound destructive
> impacts on the human rights of human beings everywhere” (Baxi 2006: 258)
>
> Critical voices:
>
> Baxi, Upendra 2006 The Future of Human Rights (2nd edn). Oxford
> University Press
>
> Grear, Anna 2006 Human Rights – Human Bodies? Some Reflections on
> Corporate Human Rights Distortion, The Legal Subject, Embodiment and
> Human Rights. Theory Law and Critique 17 (2)
>
> Grear, Anna 2007 Challenging corporate “humanity”: legal disembodiment,
> embodiment and human rights. Human Rights Law Review 7 (3)
>
> Uncritical:
>
> Emberland, Marius 2006 The Human Rights of Companies: Exploring the
> Structure of ECHR Protection. Oxford University Press
>
> -martin
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