Student Papers
This paper examines the problem of corporate tax avoidance through the use of international tax havens. It launches from a simple question asked repeatedly over the last decade: why do I pay more in taxes than a corporation like Apple?
Corporate Racial Justice Washing: Explaining Corporate America's coalition with racism's meta script
“Blackout Tuesday” featured abnormal corporate responses to the murder of George Floyd. Specifically, Fortune 500 companies made statements that expressed their alleged support of the black community and a belief that black lives matter. This critique aims to explain this
This paper seeks to contextualize the history of corporations by revealing its ties to slavery and the cotton industry in the early nineteenth century. By revealing the ways corporations legitimized racial hierarchies, we better equip ourselves to addressing modern-day instances
From Individual Failing to Corporate Crisis: How America Identified the Cause of the Opioid Epidemic
In 2018, 30% of Americans said drug abuse was an issue in their families. But because the opioid epidemic had whiter, wealthier victims than previous drug crises, the dominant narrative changed from viewing drug users as criminals to seeing them
Corporations, empowered and legitimized by corporate law and theory, are avoiding the burden of their (outsized) contributions to climate change by passing that responsibility on to individual consumers who have limited ability to make large scale change.
This article takes a critical view of how corporate power exacerbates and excuses the harms of air pollution. By focusing on Buffalo, New York as a lens through which to consider problems of national scope, the paper explores the enduring
The testing of cosmetics, chemicals, and medicine on non-human animals is conventionally justified as scientific advancement without regard to the suffering of these animals. This paper examines how corporate legal theories have contributed to the prevalence of this practice and