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Joel Bakan, the author of The Corporation, is a professor of law at the British Columbia University, specializing in economic, social, and the political dimensions of law. He studied at Simon Fraiser University, the University of Oxford, and Dalhousie University, later on getting a masters degree at Harvard Law School after serving as a clerk in 1985. After graduating, he taught at Osgoode Hall Law School of York University, then moving on to teach at his current university in 1990.

His first wife, Marlee Gayle Kline was also a professor of Law at the University of British Columbia. She died of Leukemia in 2001, after a long struggle, which Bakan stuck by throughout. After her death, he established the Marlee Klein Memorial Lectures in Social Justice to honor her contribution to Canadian Law.

Since the publication of The Corporation in 2004, he has published two other books, one on children, and how the corporations target their venerability, as a means of profit, and has also written a book on social justice and its historical effects.

One perception of his critique on the corporations, can be judged from his education in law, where he studied the rights and wrong of the society. Another source of his thoughts can be because of his first wife and her illness. Although it may not directly be connected, it can be perceived that it provoked him to consider the struggle citizens are faced with due to the corporation's greed for profit.