Joel Bakan

He served as a law clerk to Chief Justice Brian Dickson in 1985. During his tenure as clerk, Dickson authored the judgment R v Oakes, among others. Bakan then pursued a master's degree at Harvard Law School. After graduation, he returned to Canada, where he has taught law at Osgoode Hall Law School of York University and the University of British Columbia Faculty of Law. He joined the University of British Columbia Faculty of Law in 1990 as an associate professor. Bakan teaches constitutional Law, contracts, socio-legal courses, and the graduate seminar. He has won the Faculty of Law's Teaching Excellence Award twice and a UBC Killam Research Prize.

Joel Bakan studied at Simon Fraser University, Harvard Law School and Balliol College. The recorded working language is English. The field of work recorded is constitutional law and economic law. Employment is recorded with University of British Columbia. Works named in the authority record are The Corporation. Distinctions recorded are Rhodes Scholarship.

• Name — Joel Bakan • Birth Name — Joel Conrad Bakan • Born — 1959 • Birthplace — Lansing, Michigan, U.S. • Credits — The Corporation (2003) • Alma Mater — * Simon Fraser University (BA) • University of Oxford (BA) • Dalhousie University (LLB) • Harvard University (LLM) • Discipline — Law • Sub Discipline — * Constitutional law • economic law • jurisprudence • socio-legal studies • Workplaces — University of British Columbia

Bakan has a son from his first wife, Marlee Gayle Kline. Kline was a scholar and Professor of Law at the University of British Columbia before dying due to leukemia in 2001. Bakan helped establish the Marlee Kline Memorial Lectures in Social Justice to commemorate her contributions to Canadian law and feminist legal theory. He is now married to Canadian actress and singer Rebecca Jenkins. His brother, Michael Bakan, is an ethnomusicologist.

Bakan authored The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power (2003), a book analyzing the evolution and modern-day behavior of corporations from a critical perspective. It was made into a film The Corporation by directors Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott the same year and won 25 international awards. His book Childhood Under Siege: How Big Business Ruthlessly Targets Children was published in 2011. Joel Bakan writes in The Corporation: He is the author of books on Canadian constitutional law, including Just Words: Constitutional Rights and Social Wrongs (1997). Bakan and his wife Rebecca Jenkins released a jazz album, Blue Skies in 2008, an album of Jenkins' original songs, Something's Coming, in 2012, and Rebecca Jenkins: Live at the Cellar in 2014. In 2020, he was codirector with Abbott of The New Corporation: The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel, a sequel to the original film version of The Corporation. A follow-up book The New Corporation: How "Good" Corporations Are Bad for Democracy was released in the same year, and was the winner of the Jim Deva Prize for Writing that Provokes from the BC and Yukon Book Prizes in 2021.

• The Corporation (2003). • The New Corporation: The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel (2020).

Joel Bakan is recorded as having studied at Simon Fraser University, Harvard Law School and Balliol College. The authorities additionally record the heading Joel Conrad Bakan.