Professor of law at the University of British Columbia, Joel Bakan He holds law degrees from Oxford, Harvard, and Dalhousie Universities and was a Rhodes Scholar and former law clerk to Chief Justice Brian Dickson of the Supreme Court of Canada. Bakan is a well-known legal scholar who has written extensively on law and its social and economic implications. He is the cocreator and writer of The Corporation, a documentary film and television miniseries based on the book.