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: Resources
Graphic on economic inequality: L-Curve
See this graphic showing income distribution in the US as an L-Curve It depicts the distribution of family income across the population along the length of a football field, with median income represented as a stack of $100 bills 1.6″ … Continue reading
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Vulnerability and the Human Condition Website
Check out the interdisciplinary initiative at Emory University, Vulnerability and the Human Condition. This project grows out of the Feminism and Legal Theory Project headed by Emory Law Professor Martha Fineman, who has also participated in ClassCrits — and who … Continue reading
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Solidarity Economy Resources
Julie Matthaei (Wellesley Economics) suggested this resource on the Solidarity Economy The U.S. Solidarity Economy Network A recent headline: On 81st Birthday, Oregon Man Gives Company to Employees. That’s Bob’s Red Mill Natural Foods (great oatmeal). See also: SolidarityEconomy. Net: The Politics, … Continue reading
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Law scholars for corporate criminals?
As evidence of Wall Street fraud accumulates, and as Arizona criminalizes certain people for “looking” illegal, Northwestern Law School’s Searle Center assures us that it is mobilizing plenty of intellectual experts to explain why corporate criminals should be let off … Continue reading
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Heterodox Econ Resources: Financial economy vs real economy
An intriguing blog entry, “Healthcare Diversions Part 3: The Financialization of Health and Everything Else in the Universe“, by Randall Wray, post-keynesian economist at UMKC.
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Heterodox Economics Resources
This is the beginning of an effort to gather resources on alternatives to the neoclassical economic paradigm (and its variations) that dominate legal scholarship and policy. How might legal scholarship learn from, add to, engage with, and apply heterodox economics? … Continue reading
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“Market State” blog
Check out this blog. The Market State. The title draws from Philip Bobbit’s scheme of the development of the state, from the Princely State, to the Kingly State, to the State-Nation, to the 20th century Nation-State, and then from the … Continue reading
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