Lin on Corporate Social Activism

Tom C. W. Lin (Temple University – James E. Beasley School of Law) has posted Incorporating Social Activism (98 Boston University Law Review 1535 (2018)) on SSRN.  Here is the abstract: Corporations and their executives are at the forefront of some of the most contentious and important social issues of our time. Through pronouncements, policies, boycotts, sponsorships, lobbying, and fundraising, corporations are actively engaged in issues like immigration reform, gun regulation, racial justice, gender equality, and religious freedom. This is the new reality of business and social activism in America. This Article offers the first comprehensive legal examination of this new corporate social activism and its wide-ranging effects on law, business, and society. It begins by providing a brief history of corporations and social activism. Next, it establishes the legal and political foundations of contemporary corporate social activism. It investigates how the…

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