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"This splendid collection of essays by leading legal scholars,
on topics ranging from constitutional law to tax law and policy,
draws on the best recent scholarship to illuminate how and why
contemporary American law addresses--and fails to
address--persistent problems caused by the maldistribution of
wealth and income in the United States. Accessible to
non-specialists, the essays are full of provocative insights and
arguments."
--Mark Tushnet, Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Constitutional Law,
Georgetown University Law Center
"A brilliant collection of essays--each one brisk and
authoritative. Altogether they show that class--the increasingly
unbridgeable gap between rich and poor--is the biggest challenge to
our national and global dreams of freedom and equality. Not only
does the volume avoid the unevenness that plagues most groups of
essays, but they are uniformly lively and interesting."
--Barbara Allen Babcock, Judge John Crown Professor, Emerita,
Stanford Law School
"In this much-needed book, twenty-five specialists reveal how
the growing gulf between Haves and Have-nots has distorted their
fields of law--invariably to the advantage of the Haves. If you are
concerned at the injustice of putting our lawmaking institutions up
for sale to the highest bidders, this book is for you. If you are
not concerned, where have you been?"
--Kenneth L. Karst, David G. Price and Dallas P. Price Professor of
Law Emeritus, University of California, Los Angeles
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 centralquestion 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.
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