Law and class in America
Subtitle: trends since the Cold War
By: edited by Paul D. Carrington and Trina Jones.
Contributors: Carrington, Paul D., 1931-.; Jones, Trina, 1966-
Series: Critical America
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 432
Subjects: Law -- Social aspects -- United States.; Law -- Economic aspects -- United States.; Sociological jurisprudence.; Law_and_Society
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Law made in skyboxes : an evolution in American law / Paul D. Carrington and Trina Jones; value: When (some) republican justices exhibited concern for the plight of the poor : an essay in historical retrieval / Sanford Levinson; value: Money and American democracy / Burt Neuborne; value: Contracting civil procedure / Judith Resnik; value: Skybox lawyering / Marc Galanter; value: Fair pay for chief executive officers / James D. Cox; value: The antitrust "revolution" and small business : on "the turnpike to Efficiencyville" / Thomas E. Kauper; value: Residential privilege : the advent of the guarded subdivision / David L. Callies and Paula A. Franzese; value: The declining progressivity of the federal income tax / Lawrence A. Zelenak; value: Class war and the estate tax : have the troops gone AWOL? / Richard L. Schmalbeck; value: Trade law, labor, and global inequality / David M. Trubek and Lance Compa; value: Law at the workplace : the decline of collective bargaining / Julius G. Getman; value: Consumers and the American contract system : a polemic / Richard E. Speidel; value: Congress and the credit industry: more bad news for families / Elizabeth Warren; value: The misfortunes of the family farm / Paul Y.K. Castle; value: Health law and the broken promise of equity / M. Gregg Bloche and Lawrence O. Gostin; value: The elusive goal of equal educational opportunity / Gerald Torres; value: The rise and fall (and rise again?) of accident law : a continuing saga / Jeffrey O'Connell and John Linehan; value: Welfare reform and deform / Joel F. Handler and Danielle Sarah Seiden; value: Evidence law to protect the civil defendant, but not the accused / Margaret A. Berger; value: America's misguided war on drugs / Joseph D. McNamara.