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
ISBN-13: 9780814716540
Subjects: Law -- Social aspects -- United States.; Law -- Economic aspects -- United States.; Sociological jurisprudence.
Description: In Law and Class in America, a group of leading legal scholars reflect on the state of the law from the end of the Cold War to the present, grappling with a central question posed to them by Paul D. Carrington and Trina Jones: have recent legal reforms exacerbated class differences in America? In a substantive introduction, Carrington and Jones assert that legal changes from the late-20th century onward have been increasingly elitist and unconcerned with the lives of poor people having little access to the legal system. Contributors use this position as a springboard to review developments in their own particular fields and to assess whether or not legal decisions and processes have contributed to a widening gap between privileged and unprivileged people in this country. From antitrust and bankruptcy to tax and election law, the essays in this unique volume invite readers to reflect thoughtfully on socio-economic justice in the new century, and suggest that a lack of progressive reform in all areas of law may herald a form of undiagnosed class dominance reminiscent of America's Gilded Age. Contributors: Margaret A. Berger, M. Gregg Bloche, David L. Callies, Paul D. Carrington, Paul Y. K. Castle, Lance Compa, James D. Cox, Paula A. Franzese, Marc Galanter, Julius G. Getman, Lawrence O. Gostin, Joel F. Handler, Trina Jones, Thomas E. Kauper, Sanford Levinson, John Linehan, Joseph D. McNamara, Burt Neuborne, Jeffrey O'Connell, Judith Resnik, Richard L. Schmalbeck, Danielle Sarah Seiden, Richard E. Speidel, Gerald Torres, David M. Trubek, Elizabeth Warren, and Lawrence A. Zelenak.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Law made in skyboxes : an evolution in American law / Paul D. Carrington and Trina Jones; title: When (some) republican justices exhibited concern for the plight of the poor : an essay in historical retrieval / Sanford Levinson; title: Money and American democracy / Burt Neuborne; title: Contracting civil procedure / Judith Resnik; title: Skybox lawyering / Marc Galanter; title: Fair pay for chief executive officers / James D. Cox; title: The antitrust "revolution" and small business : on "the turnpike to Efficiencyville" / Thomas E. Kauper; title: Residential privilege : the advent of the guarded subdivision / David L. Callies and Paula A. Franzese; title: The declining progressivity of the federal income tax / Lawrence A. Zelenak; title: Class war and the estate tax : have the troops gone AWOL? / Richard L. Schmalbeck; title: Trade law, labor, and global inequality / David M. Trubek and Lance Compa; title: Law at the workplace : the decline of collective bargaining / Julius G. Getman; title: Consumers and the American contract system : a polemic / Richard E. Speidel; title: Congress and the credit industry: more bad news for families / Elizabeth Warren; title: The misfortunes of the family farm / Paul Y.K. Castle; title: Health law and the broken promise of equity / M. Gregg Bloche and Lawrence O. Gostin; title: The elusive goal of equal educational opportunity / Gerald Torres; title: The rise and fall (and rise again?) of accident law : a continuing saga / Jeffrey O'Connell and John Linehan; title: Welfare reform and deform / Joel F. Handler and Danielle Sarah Seiden; title: Evidence law to protect the civil defendant, but not the accused / Margaret A. Berger; title: America's misguided war on drugs / Joseph D. McNamara.