This panel brought together one of the co-editors and several contributors to Presumed Incompetent II: Race, Class, Power and Resistance of Women in Academia (Utah State University Press, 2020). The panel discusses the formidable obstacles that women of color encounter in the academic workplace and the tenacity and creativity that they deploy to overcome these barriers. As […]
January 29, 2021 Dr. Dimitri Van Den Meerssche (PhD EUI, LL.M. NYU), an associate fellow at the Asser Institute and a postdoctoral research fellow at Edinburgh Law School, led a discussion of Julie E. Cohen, Between Truth and Power: The Legal Constructions of Informational Capitalism (Oxford Univ. Press 2019), chapter 2, “The Biopolitical Public Domain.”
December 18, 2020 Jamee Moudud, Professor of Economics at Sarah Lawrence College, led a discussion of two short readings on W.E.B. Dubois’s important contributions to institutional economics and political economy.
November 20, 2020 Carol E. Heim, Professor Emerita of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, led a discussion of Jonathan Levy, "Accounting for Profit and the History of Capital," Critical Historical Studies, Vol. 1, No. 2 (Fall 2014), 171-214 and Carol E. Heim, "Capitalism," in Dictionary of American History, 3rd ed., vol. 2, Cabeza to Demography, ed. Stanley I. Kutler […]
October 23, 2020 Eric Scorsone, Director, and Sarah S. Klammer, Academic Specialist, both of the MSUE Center for Local Government Finance and Policy at Michigan State University, led a discussion about the work of John Commons, an early twentieth-century expert in law and economics from an institutionalist perspective.
September 25, 2020 Eric Scorsone, Director of the MSUE Center for Local Government Finance and Policy at Michigan State University, led a discussion of Keynesian theory and policy centered around three readings: Joan Robinson, "What has become of the Keynesian Revolution?," Challenge (Jan./Feb. 1974), Warren Samuels, "In Praise of Joan Robinson: Economics as Social Control," Society (Jan./Feb. 1989), and Warren Samuels, "Some Fundamentals of the Economic Role […]
A panel discussion on the social-capital disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact in exacerbating inequality. Moderators Presentations
August 27, 2020 Discussion focused on two short essays by economist Joan Robinson, “Latter-Day Capitalism,” New Left Review, July/August 1962, and “The Final End of Laissez-Faire,” New Left Review, July/August 1964.
July 31, 2020 Jamee Moudud, Professor of Economics at Sarah Lawrence College (with research assistance from Nikos Efstratudakis), led a discussion of Robert L. Heilbroner, The Nature and Logic of Capitalism (1985) (excerpts) and Robert L. Hale, “Coercion and Distribution in a Supposedly Non-Coercive State,” Political Science Quarterly 38 (1923), 470-94.
The 12th Annual ClassCrits conference, held at Western New England University School of Law in Springfield, MA featured scholarship on the theme “Facing Our Challenges: Rescuing Democracy, Ensuring Wellbeing & Exorcizing the Politics of Fear (Or: How To Be Free).” Conference Materials: 2019 Call for Papers 2019 ClassCrits Program
The 11th Annual ClassCrits conference, held at West Virginia University College of Law in Morgantown, WV, featured scholarship on the theme “Rising Together for Economic Hope, Power & Justice.” Conference Materials: 2018 Call for Papers 2018 ClassCrits Program
The 10th Annual ClassCrits conference, held at Tulane University School of Law in New Orleans, LA, featured scholarship on the theme “Mobilizing for Resistance, Solidarity & Justice.” Conference Materials: 2017 Call for Papers 2017 ClassCrits Program
The 9th Annual ClassCrits conference, held at Loyola University Chicago School of Law, Chicago, IL featured scholarship on the theme “The New Corporatocracy and Election 2016.” Conference Materials: 2016 Call for Papers 2017 Western New England Law Review symposium (vol. 39, no. 4)
The 8th Annual ClassCrits conference, held at the University of Tennessee Law, Knoxville, TN featured scholarship on the theme “Challenging the Structures of Inequality.” Conference Materials: 2015 CFP 2015 ClassCrits Program Related Materials: 2016 Southwestern Law Review symposium (vol. 45, no. 4)
The 7th Annual ClassCrits conference, held at the University of California, Davis School of Law in Davis, CA featured scholarship on the theme “Poverty, Precarity and Work: Struggle and Solidarity in an Era of Permanent Crisis.” Conference Materials 2014 CFP Related Materials: 2015 Southwestern Law Review symposium (vol. 44, no. 4)
The 6th Annual ClassCrits conference, held at Southwestern Law School in Los Angeles, CA featured scholarship on the theme "Stuck in Forward: Debt, Austerity and the Possibilities of the Political". Conference Materials 2013 ClassCrits Program
The 5th Annual ClassCrits conference, held at University of Wisconsin Law School in Madison, WI featured scholarship on the theme "From Madison to Zuccotti Park: Confronting Class and Reclaiming the American Dream". Conference Materials 2012 CFP 2012 ClassCrits Program
The 4th Annual ClassCrits conference, held at the American University Washington College of Law in Washington D.C which featured scholarship on the theme "American University Washington College of Law". Conference Materials 2011 ClassCrits Program
The 3rd Annual ClassCrits conference, held at the SUNY Buffalo, Baldy Center for Law & Social Policy in Buffalo, NY which featured scholarship on the theme "Rethinking Economics and Law after the Great Recession". Conference Materials 2010 CFP2010 ClassCrits Program
The 1st and 2nd Annual ClassCrits conference, held at the SUNY Buffalo, Baldy Center for Law & Social Policy in Buffalo, NY which featured scholarship on the theme "Toward a Critical Analysis of Economic Inequality". Conference Materials 2007 ClassCrits Program 2008 Buffalo Law Review special issue (vol. 56, no. 4)
