212. Vulnerability Theory
Channel: THUNK
Date: 2021-07-26

We judge our laws by a yardstick of formal equality - so long as there’s no discrimination in how laws are applied, we pat ourselves on the back for a job well done. Legal philosopher Martha Fineman thinks we should apply a different yardstick: the immutable nature of human fragility.

-Links for the Curious- 

The Vulnerable Subject: Anchoring Equality in the Human Condition(Fineman, 2008) - https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1277&context=yjlf 

Beyond Equality & Discrimination (Fineman, 2020) - https://scholar.smu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1012&context=smulrforum

What Vulnerability Theory Is and Is Not – Vulnerability and the Human Condition (Fineman, 2021) - https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/vulnerability/2021/02/01/is-and-is-not/

Vulnerability Theory and the Role of Government (Kohn, 2014) - https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1345&context=yjlf

Always Already Suspect: Revising Vulnerability Theory (Cooper, 2015) _ https://scholarship.law.unc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://scholar.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=4788&context=nclr