#Legal Fiction

Corporate personhood is the legal sleight of hand that grants rights and duties to an assembly of bricks and spreadsheets, scattering human accountability to the winds. Wielding the shield of limited liability, it revels in a freedom almost entirely unbound by its own deeds. Revered in boardrooms and courtrooms alike, its true nature is that of a phantom born of contracts and profit. Truly, it is a masquerade in which the shadow in the law’s mirror performs the grand illusion called “personhood.”