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: Vulnerability
Class Warfare Comes out of the Closet
By Lisa R. Pruitt David Stockman, Ronald Reagan’s former budget director, published an op-ed in the New York Times last month, “The Bipartisan Match to Fiscal Madness.” Stockman begins: It is obvious that the nation’s desperate fiscal condition requires higher … Continue reading
Posted in Class, Education, Free market ideology, Vulnerability
Tagged capitalism, Tax Policy
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The Social Psychology of Self-Reinforcing Inequality
By Frank Pasquale Two recent news stories are deeply suggestive of larger US economic trends: 1) Gannett’s Wealth Transfer: I recently read this story by Jim Hightower in The Progressive Populist: Early this year, Gannett employees were notified that, for … Continue reading
Posted in Class, Equality Theory, Vulnerability
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Torture, Violence, and Narcissism
by Frank Pasquale A recent study concludes that “a surprising majority—almost 60 percent—of American teenagers thought things like water-boarding or sleep deprivation are sometimes acceptable,” and “41 percent thought it was permissible for American troops to be tortured overseas.” While … Continue reading
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Class as a Category of Inequality and Vulnerability
How does economic class complicate questions of vulnerability, identity and equality? This question was one of many rich threads of discussion at a recent Emory Law School workshop of the Feminism and Legal Theory Project and Vulnerability and Human Condition … Continue reading
Posted in Class, Constitutional Law, Equality Theory, Labor, Uncategorized, Vulnerability
Tagged Ezra Rosser, Feminism and Legal Theory, Katie Olivieros, Kenneth Casebeer, Laura Kessler, law professors, Lisa Pruitt, Martha Fineman, Martha Mahoney, storytelling, Vulnerability, working class identity
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