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“The obligation of anyone who thinks of himself as responsible is to examine society and try to change it and to fight it — at no matter what risk. This is the only hope society has. This is the only way societies change.”
James Baldwin
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Scholarly articles and Informed commentary
The Three Evils of Society
“We have deluded ourselves into believing the myth that Capitalism grew and prospered out of the protestant ethic of hard work and sacrifice. The fact is that Capitalism was built on the exploitation and suffering of black slaves and continues to thrive on the exploitation of the poor – both black and white, both here and abroad.”
By Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
We Can Afford to Beat This Crisis
“Poverty, sickness, the climate crisis, and structural racism are all national emergencies, and all deserve the same commitment: whatever it takes.”
by Rohan Grey
Law and Political Economy in a Time of Accelerating Crises
“In this time of accelerating crises nationally and worldwide, conventional understandings of the relationships among state, market, and society and their regulation through law are inadequate.”
By Angela P. Harris & Jay Varellas III
Law and Political Economy: A (Very) Brief Field Guide for 1Ls
“There is nothing natural or transcendental about ‘markets’; rather, modern markets are creatures of law that serve certain social functions—how well they serve those functions will depend on what we think society ought to look like.”
By Sam Aber & Caroline Parker
Dispossession: An American Property Law Tradition
“The United States was, of course, founded in conquest and slavery, both forms of racialized dispossession. Property law allowed settlers to turn the earth into real estate and to establish markets in people.”
by Sherally Munshi
Capitalism vs. Freedom
“To be free means something broader than the capitalist conception; it means having the freedom to develop a harmonious and flourishing personality. It means being free as a real person, not as a fictional legal character motivated solely by selfish pecuniary interest.”
By Katya Assaf
Neoliberalism and the Crisis of Legal Theory
“The rule of law under neoliberalism is not designed to allow individuals to enact a collective vision of society; rather, it is first and foremost designed to enable individuals to plan their actions according to market logic.”
By Corinne Blalock
Gramsci, Hegemony, and the Law
“Hegemony involves subduing and co-opting dissenting voices through subtle dissemination of the dominant group’s perspective as universal and natural, to the point where the dominant beliefs and practices become an intractable component of common sense. In a hegemonic regime, an unjust social arrangement is internalized and endlessly reinforced in schools, churches, institutions, scholarly exchanges, museums, and popular culture.”
By Douglas Litowitz
From Lynching to Central Park Karen: How White Women Weaponize White Womanhood
“White women also need to educate one another on our shared racist history and take collective responsibility against the phenomenon of the weaponization of white womanhood.”
by Megan Armstrong
Racial Microaggressions in the Life Experience of Black Americans
“One cannot overstate the importance of demystifying microaggressions for Black Americans in producing clarity of vision and a sense of liberation in being able to define their own racial experiences.”
by Derald Wing Sue, Christina M. Capodilupo, & Aisha M. B. Holder
The Kemetic Cultural Influence on Ancient Greek Philosophy
“Greece’s genealogy received an ethnic cleansing, enabling Greece to be pure of any cultural and racial mixtures with Kemet or any of the other ‘Near Eastern’ civilizations. Now Greece could be viewed as the ‘childhood’ of Western civilization.”
by Nkosi Ato Diop