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Law and class in America : trends since the Cold War
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Law and class in America : trends since the Cold War

Author: Paul D Carrington; Trina Jones
Publisher: New York : New York University Press, ©2006.
Series: Critical America.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Reflects on the state of the law from the end of the Cold War. From antitrust and bankruptcy to tax and election law, this volume invites readers to reflect thoughtfully on socio-economic justice, and  Read more...

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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Paul D Carrington; Trina Jones
ISBN: 0814716547 9780814716540
OCLC Number: 63164880
Description: vii, 432 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Law made in skyboxes : an evolution in American law / Paul D. Carrington and Trina Jones --
When (some) republican justices exhibited concern for the plight of the poor : an essay in historical retrieval / Sanford Levinson --
Money and American democracy / Burt Neuborne --
Contracting civil procedure / Judith Resnik --
Skybox lawyering / Marc Galanter --
Fair pay for chief executive officers / James D. Cox --
The antitrust "revolution" and small business : on "the turnpike to Efficiencyville" / Thomas E. Kauper --
Residential privilege : the advent of the guarded subdivision / David L. Callies and Paula A. Franzese --
The declining progressivity of the federal income tax / Lawrence A. Zelenak --
Class war and the estate tax : have the troops gone AWOL? / Richard L. Schmalbeck --
Trade law, labor, and global inequality / David M. Trubek and Lance Compa --
Law at the workplace : the decline of collective bargaining / Julius G. Getman --
Consumers and the American contract system : a polemic / Richard E. Speidel --
Congress and the credit industry: more bad news for families / Elizabeth Warren --
The misfortunes of the family farm / Paul Y.K. Castle --
Health law and the broken promise of equity / M. Gregg Bloche and Lawrence O. Gostin --
The elusive goal of equal educational opportunity / Gerald Torres --
The rise and fall (and rise again?) of accident law : a continuing saga / Jeffrey O'Connell and John Linehan --
Welfare reform and deform / Joel F. Handler and Danielle Sarah Seiden --
Evidence law to protect the civil defendant, but not the accused / Margaret A. Berger --
America's misguided war on drugs / Joseph D. McNamara.
Series Title: Critical America.
Responsibility: edited by Paul D. Carrington and Trina Jones.
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"Professor Martha Duncan has written an important, creative work. Her book is elegant, and solidly grounded in literature, psychoanalysis and law."-"Legal Studies Form",

 
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