States, Firms, and Their Legal Fictions Book contents
- States, Firms, and Their Legal Fictions
- ASIL Studies in International Legal Theory
- States, Firms, and Their Legal Fictions
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- Part I International Attribution
- Part II Transnational Attribution
- Part III Domestic Attribution
- 9 To Whom Should We Attribute a Corporation’s Speech?
- 10 What Is a Corporate Mind?
- 11 Who Is a Corporation?
- Part IV Conceptual Origins and Lineages
- Index
9 - To Whom Should We Attribute a Corporation’s Speech?
from Part III - Domestic Attribution
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 February 2024
- States, Firms, and Their Legal Fictions
- ASIL Studies in International Legal Theory
- States, Firms, and Their Legal Fictions
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- Part I International Attribution
- Part II Transnational Attribution
- Part III Domestic Attribution
- 9 To Whom Should We Attribute a Corporation’s Speech?
- 10 What Is a Corporate Mind?
- 11 Who Is a Corporation?
- Part IV Conceptual Origins and Lineages
- Index
Summary
Over the past hundred years, American law has gradually – —and controversially –— expanded the speech rights of corporations. O O ver the same period, corporate speech has become pervasive, and now dominates most major channels of communication. C C orporate speech ranges from anodyne commercial appeals to expressions of ethical values to campaign finance payments. W W hen a corporation “speaks,” who should we understand is the real speaker? T T his chapter explores issues of speech attribution for corporations, and argues that the best approach is for attribution to turn on the corporate governance that produces the speech.
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- States, Firms, and Their Legal FictionsAttributing Identity and Responsibility to Artificial Entities, pp. 175 - 196Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024