Joel Bakan is a Rhodes Scholar who currently works as a law professor and legal scholar at the University of British Columbia. He authored the critically-­‐acclaimed and internationally-­‐recognized book, The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power, which later became an award-­‐winning documentary of the same name. Bakan has authored other works such as Just Words: Constitutional Rights and Social Wrongs, and recently released Childhood Under Siege: How Big Business Targets Children.

Plenary co-­sponsored by the College of Communication & Information Student Leadership Council, the School of Communication, the Florida State University Student Government Association, and the Union for Democratic Communications