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The law forbids any motivation for their actions, whether to assist workers, improve the environment, or help consumers save money. They can do these things with their own money, as private citizens. As corporate officials, however, stewards of other people’s money, they have no legal authority to pursue such goals as ends in themselves – only as means to serve the corporations own interests, which generally means to maximise the wealth of its shareholders. Corporate social responsibility is thus illegal – at least when its genuine. [6]

He is the author of books on Canadian constitutional law, including Just Words: Constitutional Rights and Social Wrongs (1997).[ citation needed ]

Bakan and his wife Rebecca Jenkins released a jazz album, Blue Skies [7] in 2008, an album of Jenkins' original songs, Something's Coming, in 2012, and Rebecca Jenkins: Live at the Cellar in 2014.

In 2020, he was codirector with Abbott of The New Corporation: The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel , a sequel to the original film version of The Corporation. [8] A follow-up book The New Corporation: How "Good" Corporations Are Bad for Democracy was released in the same year. [9]

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References

  1. "Joel Bakan - Music". Archived from the original on April 25, 2012. Retrieved December 30, 2011.
  2. "Welcome to the website of Joel Bakan - Author - Filmmaker & Professor". Archived from the original on December 17, 2011. Retrieved December 30, 2011.
  3. "Peter A. Allard School of Law | Home". Allard.ubc.ca. Retrieved November 19, 2017.
  4. "Peter A. Allard School of Law | Joel Bakan". Allard.ubc.ca. Retrieved November 19, 2017.
  5. "Interview with Joel Bakan, Author of Childhood Under Siege: How Big Business Targets Children". Corporations and Health. January 4, 2012. Retrieved September 2, 2016.
  6. Bakan, The Corporation, Constable, 2004, p.37
  7. "Joel Bakan - Music". Archived from the original on April 25, 2012. Retrieved December 30, 2011.
  8. Pat Mullen, "‘Inconvenient Indian’, ‘New Corporation’, ‘No Ordinary Man’ Rep Canadian Docs in TIFF Line-up". Point of View , July 30, 2020.
  9. "The New Corporation Book | joelbakan.com" . Retrieved June 14, 2023.
Joel Bakan
Joel Bakan, 2011 (cropped).jpg
Bakan in 2011
Born
Joel Conrad Bakan

1959 (age 6465)
Nationality
  • American
  • Canadian
Notable credit The Corporation (2003)
Spouses
  • Marlee Gayle Kline
    (died 2001)
  • (m. 2004)
Academic background
Alma mater