Rethinking Resistance to Corporate Rule

• In 1999, a small group of citizen activists wrote a model ‘Corporation Code’ for the state of New Jersey that reins in illegitimate corporate privileges. Their choice of states was not a coincidence, as New Jersey was known as the “traitor state” at the turn of the century for overturning more than a century of legal tradition regarding the defining of and citizen control over corporations by state legislatures. The draft document may be useful to anyone wishing to organize to amend their state’s corporate codes. If you are interested in receiving a copy please email us.

• Former corporate attorney Robert Hinkley has drafted a proposed "Code for Corporate Responsibility" which aims to transform the legal purpose of corporations to include responsibility to employees, communities and the environment. The essence of the proposed Code mandates that a corporation's Board of Directors "shall manage the corporation in a manner that does not cause damage to the environment, violate human rights, adversely affect the public health or safety, damage the welfare of communities in which the corporation operates, or violate the dignity of the corporation's employees." To read the full proposed language click here.

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