Classcrits X: Mobilizing for Resistance, Solidarity and Justice
Nov. 10-11, 2017
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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 the University at Buffalo School of Law, 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: Constitutional Law
Elitism and Education (Part IV): Admission Office Bias Against Rural Students?
By Lisa R. Pruitt In a prior post about Thomas Espenshade and Alexandria Walton Radford’s book, No Longer Separate, Not Yet Equal: Race and Class in Elite College Admission and Campus Life, I mentioned Ross Douthat’s assertion that “the downscale, … Continue reading
Posted in Class, Constitutional Law, Education, Geography, Race and Ethnicity
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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
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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Black Folks to Plantations! Mexicans go Home!: The 14th Amendment under Siege
It appears the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution is under siege. On the day I prepared to discuss the drafting and eventual passing of the 14th Amendment in my legal history course on the Reconstruction era at University at … Continue reading
Servitude as the new Freedom? Reclaiming the Thirteenth Amendment
Nov. 23, 2010 Slavery might seem to be the logical stopping point of the conservative legal movement to revive policies long discredited as fundamentally unjust. But don’t be so sure. San Diego Law Professor Larry Alexander has just written a … Continue reading
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