Challenging Corporate Nationhood
Channel: Peninsula Peace and Justice Center
Date: 2016-08-03

A conversation with
JESSE SWANHUYSER - Director, Voice for the People 
SARAH BURT - Staff Attorney, Earthjustice
PAUL GEORGE - Director, Peninsula Peace and Justice Center

Thanks to Citizens United, you have probably heard about the concept of “corporate personhood” — the idea that corporations enjoy the same Constitutional rights as natural born citizens. But have you heard about corporate nationhood?

Corporate nationhood is a little known threat to socio-economic justice and environmental sustainability.  Chevron, Philip-Morris, Koch Industries and other multinational corporations have quietly constructed an international legal system in which they are literally as powerful as sovereign nations. 

On this month’s Other Voices forum we examine a number of corporate challenges to domestic, democratically enacted laws. And we will learn about a new strategy to challenge corporate nationhood: strategic legal engagement.

Produced at Midpen Media Center, Palo Alto, CA 8/2/16

Peninsula Peace and Justice Center (Producer)
http://www.peaceandjustice.org

Earthjustice
http://earthjustice.org/

Voice for the People
c/o Center for International Environmental Law at 1350 Connecticut Ave., NW Suite 1100, Washington DC 20036

MIdpen Media Center
http://midpenmedia.org/