Classcrits X: Mobilizing for Resistance, Solidarity and Justice
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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: Resources Of Interest
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
On the Bookshelf: Governance Femininity
In her books Cold Intimacies: The Making of Emotional Capitalism and Saving the Modern Soul: Therapy, Emotions, and the Culture of Self-Help, Eva Illouz examines the emergence of “therapeutic discourse,” an amalgam of Freudian theory and the American tradition of … 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
Imagine a Democratic Federal Reserve
Nov. 19, 2010 The Federal Reserve’s elitist power has great potential for joining strands of left and right political anger. Right-wing critics are denouncing the recently planned $600 billion infusion from the Fed (maybe reaching $900 billion) as more evidence … Continue reading
“Super-rich” law professors and tax policy
The controversy over Law Professor Todd Henderson’s “We are the Super Rich” blog entry, posted and then withdrawn from Truth on the Market (Sept. 15, 2010), misses how current marriage tax policy divides the not-so-rich to the benefit of the … Continue reading
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Tagged gender, marriage, Martha McCluskey, Tax Policy, Todd Henderson
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Music for the real economy
Here’s to a law and economics that blurs disciplinary boundaries into poetry (see previous post) and music. Thanks to Anthony for these links. Rebel Diaz: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Dr05tXktSo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQ0P0uQRpxc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tq7UCkwCHM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d02e_QAUMp8&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHuKJR2jHPY http://www.villagevoice.com/2008-07-09/news/cops-rip-up-rappers/ Blues Scholars: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIqMIrmpUjc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sA3qamPyEw&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkdneMqtK7k&feature=related Immortal Technique: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVL4IAKA9Lc
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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
Critical Law and Economics book series
From Routledge: The Economics of Legal Relationships Two books of particular interest: The Legal-Economic Nexus: Fundamental Processes, By Warren Samuels The Fundamental Interrelationships between Government and Property, Edited by Nicholas Mercuro, Warren J Samuels Table of Contents: 1. An introduction … Continue reading
Progressive Law and Economics book
A fabulous collection of essays from a time when what now appears as “law and economics” or neoliberalism was beginning to take over: The Chicago School of Political Economy, edited by Warren J. Samuels (Transaction Publishers, originally 1976 but reprinted … Continue reading
Aesthetics, law, and economic power
Heather Hughes, of American University Washington College of Law http://www.wcl.american.edu/faculty/hhughes/ has been doing pathbreaking work on a critical class analysis of commercial law. Her recent article, Aesthetics of Commercial Law: Domestic and International Implications, 67 La. L. Rev. 689 (2007), … Continue reading
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Tagged aesthetics, commercial law, economic theory, neoliberal
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