Until the release of The Corporation ( 2003 ), made by Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott and Joel Bakan, it was the most successful feature documentary in Canadian history, played theatrically in over 300 cities around the world ; won 22 awards ; appeared in more than 50 international film festivals ; and was broadcast in over 30 markets.

The Toronto East branch represented the minority faction and was led by Abbie Bakan and supported by the Montreal branch.

Professor Joel Bakan was Brian Dickson's clerk during R. v. Oakes ( 1986 ).

At one point Morton and Knopff also criticize the growing power of Supreme Court clerks by alleging that Dickson's clerk Joel Bakan was the true author of the Oakes test.

Being a legitimate successor to Datu Dangandanan who ruled what was called Akean in the late 1390s, Datu Manduyog became the Akeanon ruler in 1437 and made Bakan the capital.

" Lenin's claim of an international conspiracy linked up with the Kronstadt events is claimed by Marxist Abbie Bakan to be supported by the discovery of a handwritten memorandum preserved in the Russian Archive of Columbia University, dated 1921 and marked ' Top Secret '.

The Shimonoseki Campaign ( Japanese: 下関戦争 / 馬関戦争, Shimonoseki Sensō / Bakan Sensō ) refers to a series of military engagements in 1863 and 1864, fought to control Shimonoseki Straits of Japan by joint naval forces from Great Britain, France, the Netherlands and the United States, against the Japanese feudal domain of Chōshū, which took place off and on the coast of Shimonoseki, Japan.

Background information on this period is available in Origins of the International Socialists by Abbie Bakan and Philip Murton.

The Corporation is a 2003 Canadian documentary film written by University of British Columbia law professor Joel Bakan, and directed by Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott.

* Disc 1 includes the film, 17 minutes deleted scenes, 2 tracks of directors ' and writer's commentary, filmmakers ' Q's & A's and interviews, theatrical trailer, 60 minutes of Joel Bakan interviewed by Janeane Garofalo on Majority Report, Air America Radio, 10 minutes of Katherine Dodds on grassroots marketing, 3 language ( English, French, Spanish ) subtitles, descriptive audio.

Joel Bakan is distinct by criticizing the actions of civil liberties groups and their overemphasis on individual liberty at the expense of collective rights and duties.

Abbott continued her collaboration with Mark Achbar in 2003 when they co-directed the critically acclaimed documentary film, The Corporation ( 2003 ), written by Joel Bakan.

In 1997, Achbar initiated a project titled The Corporation with author and University of British Columbia law professor Joel Bakan.

Professor Kline died of leukemia in 2001 after a long struggle and Bakan supported his wife through her illness, while working on The Corporation, and established The Marlee Kline Memorial Lectures in Social Justice to commemorate her contributions to Canadian law and feminist legal theory.

Defenders of the Bolshevik policy, such as Abbie Bakan, have claimed that the Kronstadt rebels were not the same sailors as those who had been revolutionary heroes in 1917.

Joel Conrad Bakan ( born 1959 ) is a Canadian writer, jazz musician, filmmaker, and professor at the University of British Columbia Faculty of Law.

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Bakan wrote the book, The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power, during the filming of the documentary.

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Bakan wrote the film and book, while Achbar directed, produced and executive-produced the film.

* Joel Bakan, author of The Corporation.

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.

Bakan then pursued a Masters degree at Harvard Law School.

Professor Bakan teaches Constitutional Law, Contracts, socio-legal courses and the graduate seminar.

Bakan has a son from his first wife, Marlee Gayle Kline, also a scholar and Professor of Law at the University of British Columbia.

His sister, Laura Naomi Bakan Q. C., is a Vancouver lawyer, and his brother, Michael Bakan, is an ethnomusicologist.

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.

Following observation of the fact that the reaction rates of supposedly identical reaction mixtures prepared on the same filling manifold and exposed under identical conditions often differed by several hundred per cent, a systematic series of experiments was undertaken to see whether the difficulty could be ascribed to the method of preparing the chlorine, to the effects of oxygen or moisture or to the effect of surface to volume ratio in the reaction tubes.

So junior's bedroom was usually tricked out with heavy, nondescript pieces that supposedly could take the `` hard knocks '', while the fine secretary was relegated to the parlor where it was for show only.

The last Lord of Abensberg, Nicholas, supposedly named after his godfather, Nicholas of Kues, a Catholic cardinal, was murdered in 1485 by Christopher, a Duke of Bavaria-Munich.

If this etymology is combined with the tradition reported by Geoffrey of Monmouth stating that Ambrosius Aurelianus ordered the building of Stonehenge – which is located within the parish of Amesbury ( and where Ambrosius was supposedly buried ) – and with the presence of an Iron Age hill fort also in that parish, then it may be tempting to connect Ambrosius with Amesbury.

* Uncle Sam ( initials U. S .) is a common national personification of the American government that according to legend came into use during the War of 1812 and was supposedly named for Samuel Wilson a meat packer in New York, who supplied rations for the soldiers.

Abd al-Rahman died in his adopted city of Córdoba, and was supposedly buried under the site of the Mezquita.

It was the first motion picture to be shown at the White House. President Woodrow Wilson supposedly said the film was " like writing history with lightning.

The Roman fleet was supposedly incinerated, though eventually the city was taken and Archimedes was slain.

" It was supposedly developed by the Tyrell Corporation to prevent news about replicants malfunctioning.

By contrast, the British press were jubilant ; many newspapers sought to portray the battle as a victory for Britain over anarchy, and the success was used to attack the supposedly pro-republican Whig politicians Charles James Fox and Richard Brinsley Sheridan.

Its administrative center was supposedly located outside of the settlement itself, on the nearby island of Adelsö.

Although the German General Staff was also abolished by the treaty, it nevertheless continued to exist as the Truppenamt or " Troop Office ", supposedly only an administrative body.

The term was first used in astrology, of asterisms that supposedly exerted influence, attested in Ammianus ( 4th century ).

In China during the Tang Dynasty, cannibalism was supposedly resorted to by rebel forces early in the period ( who were said to raid neighboring areas for victims to eat ), as well as both soldiers and civilians besieged during the rebellion of An Lushan.

Thus the conception of Claudius as the weak fool, controlled by those he supposedly ruled, was preserved for the ages.

Charles was now appointing the kings whom he supposedly served, rois fainéants who were mere puppets in his hands ; by the end of his reign they were so useless that he didn't even bother appointing one.

When Heracles had pulled Theseus first from his chair, some of his thigh stuck to it ( this explains the supposedly lean thighs of Athenians ), but the earth shook at the attempt to liberate Pirithous, whose desire to have the wife of a god for himself was so insulting he was doomed to stay behind.

One example of the fruitfulness of questioning assumptions comes from questioning the assumption that " China was weak in the 19th century " and pointing out the fact that at the time in which China was supposedly weak, it managed to considerably extend its borders in Central Asia.