Corporate power and corporate law are core underlying causes of both environmental degredation and environmental injustice. This paper investigates how corporate law encourages corporations to pursue shareholder profit, no matter the cost to people or the planet. Relying on profit
Standardized tests are an element of higher education applications that need to be scrutinized more closely. This paper seeks to break down the correlation between how well one does on a corporate administered standardized test and merit. This paper argues
Charter schools were introduced in the United States in the early 1990s as a solution to declining education outcomes. While the jury is still out on whether charter schools truly improve education outcomes, this paper examines the core values charter
Over the past several years, increasing public scrutiny has led to the closure of private prisons across the country. Faced with out-group status, corrections corporations have responded by diversifying their services in government-run prisons, which has allowed them to
Gun control proposals in the United States overwhelmingly focus on regulating individuals: background checks, criminal penalties, storage regulations, and the like. But the problem of gun violence is not a problem of “bad” people: it is a systemic public health
Although the relationship between eroding wages in the working class, and unprecedented increases of wealth in the top 1% of income-earners is alarmingly clear, little has been done to remedy the issue; minimum wage remains unchanged since 2009 and is
This paper argues that the material and metaphysical violence levied against Black and Indigenous peoples in the United States form the foundation of modern corporations and “the corporation” as such. By analyzing corporations’ basic building blocks—capital, property, and land—and their
This paper focuses exclusively on the adverse effects redlining practices have had throughout Black communities in the Central District. Furthermore, it discusses how corporate power—through the emergence of multinational tech companies in Seattle—and corporate legal structures exacerbate issues of instability
“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