Ralph Nader - "The Problem of Corporate Capture" - 2023 Corporate Capture Conference at HLS

From the 2023 Corporate Capture of the Legal System Conference at Harvard Law School: In these compelling keynote remarks to help kick off the conference, Ralph Nader describes some of the many ways that corporate actors have captured the legal system. He then implores law students to recognize and resist the corrupting influence and harmful effects of corporate interests on legal education, the legal profession, legal media, and the law more broadly.

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00:00 Introduction
8:35 Is corporate power compatible with democracy?
13:33 Corporate supremacy?
18:49 We all grow up corporate
20:56 Corporate capture of all systems: strategic planning
25:07 Impact on legal education
28:26 What can students do?
34:45 Concluding remarks

The 2023 Corporate Capture of the Legal System Conference at Harvard Law School centered around the corrupting influence and harmful effects of corporate interests on legal education, the legal profession, legal media, and the law more broadly. The conference also spotlighted types of practice and practitioners whose work challenges and counteracts corporate power and holds corporations accountable. The event was intended to join other ongoing efforts to expand the coalition of law students, lawyers, and legal journalists devoted to addressing the problems of excessive corporate power through education, organization, storytelling, and litigation.