Upcoming Workshop: ClassCrits V, “From Madison to Zuccotti Park: Confronting Class and Reclaiming the American Dream”
November 16-17, 2012, at the University of Wisconsin Law School
More information forthcoming.
About ClassCrits
This blog is the public manifestation of the ClassCrits Project. The blog focuses on law and economic inequality from a critical legal perspective. Supported by SUNY Buffalo Law School, participants in the ClassCrits Project - and this blog in particular - hope to start a discussion that puts economic inequality at the center rather than at the margins of mainstream law. [Read More]
Category Archives: Marxism
The Federalist Society’s Marxist View of the Constitution?
It’s no longer so clear that a strong consensus supports Holmes’ famous dissent in Lochner stating that the Constitution does not embody a particular economic ideology. The Federalist Society‘s recent event, Economic Theory, Civic Virtue, and the Meaning of the … Continue reading
Academic freedom casualty
News: The Would-Be Provost Who Quoted Marx – Inside Higher Ed http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2011/03/18/provost_designee_withdraws_at_kennesaw_state_amid_controversy_over_journal_citation_of_marx Note one of the offending lines: “All ownership of land or material means of production was at one time or another obtained by force.”
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Harvey’s quick story of capitalism’s crisis
Those interested in class, crisis and the law might find useful this short video summary of the crisis from a Marxian perspective that’s been making the rounds: David Harvey, Crisis of Capitalism, (April 26, 2010). Harvey identifies a … Continue reading
Posted in Financial Crisis, Free market ideology, Labor, Legal Theory, Marxism
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