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: Heterodox Economics
New AAUP guidelines on academic-business ties: more Field Notes on the Political Economy of Academia
Kudos to classcrits colleague Risa L. Lieberwitz, Cornell ILR and labor law scholar, for her work with AAUP on new draft guidelines governing academic conflicts of interest and integrity, quoted in the Chronicle of Higher Education, Ambitious AAUP Effort to … Continue reading
Posted in corporate power, Education, Financial Crisis, Heterodox Economics, Law Schools, Legal Theory, Political Economic of Academia
Tagged aaup, Academic Integrity, Conflicts of Interest, Disclosure, Fracking, Gerald Epstein, law and economics, Martha T Mccluskey, PERI, Risa L Lieberwitz
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Distinguishing science from “market” power? Field notes on the political economy of academia
It’s become common wisdom in the U.S. that non-transparent big money largely drives elections, legislatures, regulatory agencies, and much of the judicial system, eroding the public trust and reinforcing perceptions that law and politics, as well as economics, operates largely … Continue reading
Posted in corporate power, Education, Free market ideology, Heterodox Economics, Legal Theory, Morality and Economics, politics
Tagged Charles Ferguson, history of economics playground, INET, Inside Job, Institute for New Economic Thinking, Martha McCluskey, Predator Nation, SUNY, Tiago Mata
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ClassCrits involved in Fed. Reserve Reform Initiative
Kudos to Timothy Canova (Chapman Univ. Law) and heterodox economist friends of ClassCrits who’ve been tapped for a committee to advise Sen. Bernie Sanders on crafting legislation to reform the Federal Reserve. Canova will join Gerald Epstein of the U.Mass. … Continue reading
Goodbye to the Best of Law & Economics: Warren Samuels 1933-2011
Martha T. McCluskey I just now learned of the death last month of Warren J. Samuels, who in in my book was the best law and economics scholar of the last half century or so, and certainly one of the … Continue reading
Dishonorable Inequalities
by Frank Pasquale I want to thank Martha McCluskey and the rest of the Class Crits organizers for inviting me to guest blog here. I’ve done about 100 posts on law and inequality during my five years blogging at Concurring … Continue reading
Moral Austerity
Below is another cross-posting from the SALT blog, where I’m doing a stint as guest contributor. My wise Buffalo law colleague Stephanie Phillips, who does work on the social gospel tradition in Christianity, mentioned to me that this recent effort … Continue reading
Law and Economic Austerity
This is another cross-posting from the SALT blog. Austerity Jurisprudence Written by Martha McCluskey Why was the message of austerity so appealing to economically insecure voters in this week’s election? A more intellectual version of this passionate opposition to social … Continue reading
2010 Classcrits Workshop: Reality-based Economics and The Great Recession
This is a cross-posting of a May 2010 commentary by Angela Harris on the SALT (Society of American Law Teachers) blog, http://www.saltlaw.org/blog/ discussing last spring’s Classcrits workshop, Rethinking Economics and Law after the Great Recession. Stay tuned to this website … Continue reading
Posted in Events, Heterodox Economics
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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
Posted in Heterodox Economics, Resources
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Ode to Air by Pablo Neruda
Thanks to Professor Martha Mahoney of the University of Miami Law School for bringing our attention to this wonderful poem, Ode to Air by Pablo Neruda, in discussions of alternative legal-economic orders at the recent ClassCrits workshop on Rethinking Economics … Continue reading
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