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Joel Bakan is a Canadian lawyer, author, and professor. He was born in 1959 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He is the author of the book The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power, which was adapted into a documentary film of the same name. He is currently a professor of law at the University of British Columbia. Bakan received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of British Columbia in 1981 and his law degree from the University of Toronto in 1984. He was called to the bar in British Columbia in 1985. He practiced law in Vancouver for several years before becoming a professor at the University of British Columbia in 1992. Bakan has written several books, including The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power, which was adapted into a documentary film of the same name. He has also written books on constitutional law, corporate law, and legal theory. Bakan is married and has two children. He currently resides in Vancouver, British Columbia.

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2008

Bakan and his wife 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.

2004

Bakan authored The Corporation, 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 Corporation the same year and won 25 international awards. His book Childhood Under Siege was published in August 2011.

2001

Bakan has a son from his first wife, Marlee Gayle Kline, also a scholar and Professor of Law at the University of British Columbia. Professor Kline died of 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 sister, Laura Naomi Bakan is a provincial court judge in British Columbia, and his brother, Michael Bakan, is an ethnomusicologist.

1985

He served as a law clerk to Chief Justice Brian Dickson in 1985. During his tenure as clerk, Chief Justice 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.

1971

Born in Lansing, Michigan, and raised for most of his childhood in East Lansing, Michigan, where his parents, Paul and Rita Bakan, were both long-time professors in psychology at Michigan State University. In 1971, he moved with his parents to Vancouver, British Columbia. He was educated at Simon Fraser University (BA, 1981), University of Oxford (BA in law, 1983), Dalhousie University (LLB, 1984) and Harvard University (LLM, 1986).

1959

Joel Conrad Bakan (born 1959) is an American-Canadian writer, jazz musician, filmmaker, and professor at the Peter A. Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia.