Citizens united and the corporate form

Accounting, Economics and Law

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Avi Yonah, Reuven S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Constitutional rights; Corporation; Free speech; Legal fiction; Legal person; Real entity

Indexed keywords

EID: 85031920326     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21522820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/2152-2820.1048     Document Type: Article

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