# Adam Winkler

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In The Midterm Election Campaigns, Corporations Are People Too

Over a decade since the Supreme Court ruled that corporate political contributions constitute free speech, what has it meant for democracy? On Today's Show:Adam Winkler, UCLA professor of law and author of We the Corporations (Liveright, 2018) and Gunfight: The Battle Over the Right to Bear Arms i…

Weekend Law: Vampire Gun Rule & Trump Headed for SCOTUS Loss

Second Amendment expert Adam Winkler, a professor at UCLA Law School, discusses the SCOTUS oral arguments on a Hawaii gun law called the “vampire rule.” Constitutional law expert David Super, a professor at Georgetown Law, discusses SCOTUS oral arguments on President Trump’s attempt to fire Fed Res…

What the Constitution Actually Says About Guns

Episode 69 – The Constitution, Gun Rights & the Edge of Crisis In the wake of a fatal shooting involving federal agents and a lawfully armed citizen, the national conversation moved fast. Accusations. Statements. Counterstatements. But what does the law actually say? In this episode of Common-X, we…

Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - When Did Corporations Become People?

On this week’s show, Dahlia Lithwick is joined by UCLA Law Professor Adam Winkler to talk about his new book We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights. Together, they also examine what the constitutionalizing of corporate rights can tell us about the current gun debate. A…

Corporations Were Always People

No discussion of money and politics is complete without a tip of the hat to Citizens United, the landmark Supreme Court ruling of 10 years ago that recognized corporations as people and their money as speech.  That ruling was followed a few years ago by the Hobby Lobby decision, giving business own…

Who's In Charge Here?

After Mark Zuckerberg's two-day testimony before Congress, we consider whether a reckoning for the social media giant might finally be on the horizon. A new documentary looks at how the state of Montana has been fighting back against dark money ever since the Supreme Court's Citizens United decisio…

Rinse and Repeat

In the wake of the school shooting in Florida we are recycling two interviews that we recorded following two other mass shooting tragedies. The first is about a chapter in the NRA's history that not many people know about. We’ve become accustomed in the past 20 years to seeing the issue of guns in …

Why Corporations Always Win At The Supreme Court - ft. Adam Winkler

Corporations are people in the eyes of the law. But how did that happen, and why does it hand them rights you don't have?  UCLA law professor Adam Winkler, author of "We the Corporations", traces a 200-year campaign by business to win the constitutional rights of human beings. Bethany McLean and L…

Gulf Coast Growth Show, Adam Winkler, Winkler Public Relations and Evan Mintz, Houston Chronicle

Discover why the Houston Port Region is one of the most important industrial hubs in the world in this special episode of the Gulf Coast Growth Show. Chad Burke, President & CEO, Economic Alliance Houston Port Region hands over the mic to Adam Winkler, Director of Media Strategy and Storytelling a…

Big Oil, AR-15s, and The Right to Vote Hit SCOTUS

The Supreme Court’s new term is packed with cases that could reshape the legal landscape on climate change, gun rights and voting. In our annual SCOTUS preview, we break down three of the term’s most pivotal cases and explore how they reflect the high court’s growing role in our most consequential …