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Emotional Competence, Multicultural Lawyering And Race, Marjorie A. Silver Dec 2010

Emotional Competence, Multicultural Lawyering And Race, Marjorie A. Silver

Marjorie A. Silver

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Negotiating The Situation: The Reasonable Person In Context, Lu-In Wang Jan 2010

Negotiating The Situation: The Reasonable Person In Context, Lu-In Wang

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This Essay argues that our understanding of the reasonable person in economic transactions should take into account an individual’s race, gender, or other group-based identity characteristics - not necessarily because persons differ on account of those characteristics, but because of how those characteristics influence the situations a person must negotiate. That is, individuals’ social identities constitute features not just of themselves, but also of the situations they inhabit. In economic transactions that involve social interaction, such as face-to-face negotiations, the actor’s race, gender, or other social identity can affect both an individual actor and those who interact with him or …


Teaching The Tensions, Angela P. Harris Dec 2009

Teaching The Tensions, Angela P. Harris

Angela P Harris

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