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How can a business be a person?

• alistairSH 8y ago
  When the court says it is... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_personhood https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_personhood https://www.npr.org/2014/07/28/335288388/when-did-companies-become-people-excavating-the-legal-evolution https://www.npr.org/2014/07/28/335288388/when-did-companies-... https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/03/corporations-people-adam-winkler/554852/ https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/03/corpora...
  • hadrien01 8y ago
    The parent was talking about GDPR, so presumably Europe.
    • alistairSH 8y ago
      Corporate personhood isn't only an American invention. The German constitution explicitly grants fundamental rights to "artificial persons". The Italian constitution explicitly calls out trade unions as legal persons.
• scarejunba 8y ago
  What if my business is "John Doe, Independent Barrister"?