Joel Bakan
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Joel Conrad Bakan (born 1959) is a Canadian lawyer and writer.
Born and raised for most of his childhood in Lansing, Michigan, he moved with his parents to Vancouver, British Columbia in 1970. He was educated at Simon Fraser University (BA, 1981), University of Oxford (BA in law, 1983) and Dalhousie University (LLB, 1984).
He served as a law clerk to Brian Dickson in 1985, during his tenure as clerk Chief Justice Dickson authored the judgment R. v. Oakes among others. He then pursued a Masters 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.
Bakan authored The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power, a book analyzing the evolution and modern-day behavior of corporations from a critical perspective. Published in 2004, it was made into a film the same year and won 25 international awards.
He is also the author of a number of books on Canadian constitutional law, including Just Words: Constitutional Rights and Social Wrongs, which analyzes the historical effect that the Charter of Rights and Freedoms has had in promoting social justice.
He is married to Canadian actress and singer Rebecca Jenkins.
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