Corporate Law
Christian Restorative Justice and Corporate Law
Introduction
The following clip is from our 2019 Conference: Healing Atonement and highlights how Christian ethics once critiqued corporate limited liability and should do so again.
In this class, explore this public good approach to Christian ethics in the public square. This series will highlight twelve key relationships distorted by Plantation Capitalism, a system of production where elites exploit people and the planet, and corrected by Jesus in his Jubilee Economy. The following videos address finance:
Video 3: Enslavers vs Enslaved. Thieves vs Victims. Debtors vs Lenders. Employers vs. Poor & Poorer Workers. Christian faith had set up certain laws in Europe that abolished chattel slavery, thwarted the worst of labor exploitation, and persistently tried to limit finance and banks. But the colonies were a legal gray zone, where people could get away with exploitation and theft that they couldn't get away with back in Europe. European colonizers treated the North American colonies as a safe place to practice their heresies.
Video 5: Labor vs. Capital; Privatizers vs. Common Goods. Jesus reasserted God's vision of flourishing, where human and land health, and then labor rights, took clear priority over the right of elites to use money to make more money. How does WalMart do? See how we grade it. Also, Berlin residents voted to force BlackRock -- now a massive corporate landlord -- to sell back housing units to the city. How would Jesus think about that? We examine Jesus’ teaching on the relationships of Labor vs. Capital and Privatizers vs. Common Goods. Jesus asserted his claim on all creation and all people. So he extended the relational vision of God for human flourishing, where human health and land health, and human rights and labor rights took clear priority over the rights of capital and the ability of elites to use money to make more money.
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Corporate Law: Topics:
These resources on Corporate Law and Governance follow a roughly chronological order related to when these issues came up in United States history: Limited Liability and Externalities; Monopoly and Antitrust; Regulation; Taxes and Loopholes; American Imperialism.
Christian Restorative Justice, Business, and Economics: Topics:
This section on Economics includes the following pages: Economics Metrics identifies and critique the metrics we use. Public-Private Partnerships defends government involvement as a permanent fixture of economic growth, historically and philosophically. Environment examines many aspects of conservation, climate change, sustainability, and human health. Taxes examines models of taxation, claims by adherents, and effects. Housing Policy highlights how housing should be considered a human right, with better planning, zoning, and accountability. Corporate Law examines monopoly, limited liability, regulation, and other features of business law. Labor highlights the importance of labor over capital investment. Automation examines the impact on people and communities. Wealth Inequality and Power Inequality track the historical ups and downs, along with the ideologies used to justify them. Media examines media companies as economic and political agents, especially rightward media.
Christian Restorative Justice Critique of the Right: Domestic Policy Topics:
This page is part of our section Critique of the Right, which engages the following topics: Banking and Finance examines the economic and political power of financial institutions; Bioethics discusses abortion policy; Business and Economics examines economic theories, taxes, housing, environment, corporate law, labor law, automation, and inequalities of wealth and power; Civil Unions makes the Christian case for civil unions for all and removing marriage from the culture wars; Criminal Justice examines crime statistics and definition, policing, prosecution, sentencing, prisons, and reintegration; Education examines public education and conservative resistance to it; Environment and Health highlights the many challenges we face related to animals, climate change, food, and health systems; Government Corruption spotlights political compromises and dealings contrary to the public good; Gun Rights examines gun policies and rhetoric; Media spotlights failures of, and possible fixes to, left-wing or left-leaning media; Power and Politics highlights the impact of racial considerations and racism on political campaigns, voting rights, public investments, and other political procedures; Race examines the impact of white supremacy on virtually every aspect of American life.
Christian Restorative Justice Critique of the Right: Philosophical Influences:
