Volume 42, Issue 1 (2024)
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Valuing Life: A Human Rights Perspective on the Calculus of Regulation
Why the Religious Right Can’t Have Its (Straight Wedding) Cake and Eat It Too: Breaking the Preservation-Through-Transformation Dynamic in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission
Ethical Considerations of Ovarian and Testicular Tissue Cryopreservation in Pre-Pubertal Children Who Cannot Assent
Is It Just Dessert? Female Recruits Don’t Get Their Fair Share of the Pie: The Marine Corps Fights Gender Integration of Basic Training, Violating Equal Protection Standards and Cultivating a Culture Where Female Recruits Are Left out of the “Brotherhood”
Gutting the Fourth Amendment: Judicial Complicity in Racial Profiling and the Real-Life Implications
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A Conversation on Learning from the History of the Civil Rights Movement
Introduction & Abridged Transcript, The Summit for Civil Rights, November 10, 2017
50 Years Later—The State of Civil Rights and Opportunity in America
Abridged Transcript, The Summit for Civil Rights, November 9, 2017
The Summit for Civil Rights: Mission, Structure, and Initial Outcomes
The Persistence of Segregation in the 21st Century
A Look at Inequality, Workers’ Rights, and Race
Does the African American Need Separate Charter Schools?
Segregation Now, Segregation Tomorrow, Segregation Forever?
Litigation Committee Charge
Legislation Committee Charge
Fair Share: Reinvigorating the Twin Cities’ Regional Affordable Housing Calculus
Re-Victimization and the Asylum Process: Jimenez Ferreira v. Lynch: Re-Assessing the Weight Placed on Credible Fear Interviews in Determining Credibility
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Masthead for Volume 36, Issue 2 of Law & Inequality: A Journal of Theory and Practice
Introduction
Introduction of articles published as a part of the North American Regional Meeting of the International Society of Family Law
Equality, Equity, and Dignity
Report of a National Meeting: Parental Involvement Laws and the Judicial Bypass
Uncommon Misconceptions: Holding Physicians Accountable for Insemination Fraud
A Case for Legalizing Polygamy in Western Societies: Lessons from the Global South
Eleven Things They Don’t Tell You About Law & Economics: An Informal Introduction to Political Economy and Law
Many legal scholars have critiqued the dominant law and economics paradigm. However, important work is all too often neglected because it is not popularized in an accessible form. This Article features experts who synthesize their key insights into memorable and concise vignettes. Our 11 Things project is inspired by the work of the Cambridge economist Ha-Joon Chang, who distilled many facets of his work into a book called 23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism. That book was a runaway success, translated for markets around the globe, because it challenged conventional economic reasoning with a series of short and memorable analyses and narratives that translated academic research into accessible language. A project like Chang’s can also inform economic analysis of law. We believe that law and economics pedagogy would benefit from a shift in focus. Scholars are developing increasingly data-driven and empirical research, while too many casebooks and teaching approaches covering the first-year U.S. law school curriculum remain mired in toy models and simplistic accounts of economic life. This Article features critical insights that “they” (politicians, bureaucrats, and, all too frequently, first-year professors and casebook authors) tend to neglect in their understanding of commercial life. Each piece critically explores a facet of the theoretical foundations of law and economics. They connect contemporary developments in policy research to classical economic analysis of law. They bridge the gap between scholarship and pedagogy, introducing students, practitioners, and policymakers to political economy as a vital alternative in policy analysis.