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Full-Text Articles in Law
A Proposed Framework For A Federal Inevitable Disclosure Doctrine Under The Defend Trade Secrets Act, Michael J. Garrison, Dawn R. Swink, John T. Wendt
A Proposed Framework For A Federal Inevitable Disclosure Doctrine Under The Defend Trade Secrets Act, Michael J. Garrison, Dawn R. Swink, John T. Wendt
Buffalo Law Review
No abstract provided.
Consider Buffalo, Pierre Schlag
The Tragedy Of The (Not So Much In) Common(S), George M. Williams Jr.
The Tragedy Of The (Not So Much In) Common(S), George M. Williams Jr.
Buffalo Law Review
No abstract provided.
With Thanks And A Note On Causation, John Henry Schlegel
With Thanks And A Note On Causation, John Henry Schlegel
Buffalo Law Review
No abstract provided.
Dizzying: An Introduction, David A. Westbrook
Dizzying: An Introduction, David A. Westbrook
Buffalo Law Review
No abstract provided.
On Preparing The Soil For Rain, Errol Meidinger
On Preparing The Soil For Rain, Errol Meidinger
Buffalo Law Review
This Essay examines several possibilities for improving our thinking about the vexing, multifaceted problem of revitalizing languishing regions of the United States. Its jumping-off point is an important work of socio-economiclegal history: While Waiting for Rain: Community, Economy, and Law in a Time of Change, by John Henry Schlegel. The book seeks to understand the steady decline of US regional economies, particularly Buffalo, following a period of relatively high prosperity from World War II through the 1950s; its tandem question is how those economies might be revived. Based on a very full and rich exposition, Schlegel argues that, like farmers …
While Waiting For Capital To Rain, Matthew Dimick
While Waiting For Capital To Rain, Matthew Dimick
Buffalo Law Review
No abstract provided.
While Waiting For Virtue: Comments On Schlegel’S While Waiting For Rain, James A. Gardner
While Waiting For Virtue: Comments On Schlegel’S While Waiting For Rain, James A. Gardner
Buffalo Law Review
No abstract provided.
Conflict Of Laws? Tensions Between Antitrust And Labor Law, Matthew Dimick
Conflict Of Laws? Tensions Between Antitrust And Labor Law, Matthew Dimick
Journal Articles
Not long ago, economists denied the existence of monopsony in labor markets. Today, scholars are talking about using antitrust law to counter employer wage-setting power. While concerns about inequality, stagnant wages, and excessive firm power are certainly to be welcomed, this sudden about-face in theory, evidence, and policy runs the risk of overlooking some important concerns. The purpose of this Essay is to address these concerns and, more critically, to discuss some tensions between antitrust and labor law, a more traditional method for regulating labor markets. Part I addresses a question raised in the very recent literature, about why antitrust …
All Costs Have A Right, Martha T. Mccluskey
All Costs Have A Right, Martha T. Mccluskey
Journal Articles
From "Eleven Things They Don’t Tell You About Law & Economics: An Informal Introduction to Political Economy and Law."
Many legal scholars have critiqued the dominant law and economics paradigm. However, important work is all too often neglected because it is not popularized in an accessible form. This Article features experts who synthesize their key insights into memorable and concise vignettes. Our 11 Things project is inspired by the work of the Cambridge economist Ha-Joon Chang, who distilled many facets of his work into a book called 23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism. That book was a runaway …
Models Of Other-Regarding Preferences And Redistribution, Matthew Dimick, David Rueda, Daniel Stegmueller
Models Of Other-Regarding Preferences And Redistribution, Matthew Dimick, David Rueda, Daniel Stegmueller
Journal Articles
Despite the increasing popularity of comparative work on other-regarding preferences, the implications of different models of altruism are not always fully understood. This article analyzes different theoretical approaches to altruism and explores what empirical conclusions we should draw from them, paying particular attention to models of redistribution preferences where inequality explicitly triggers other-regarding motives for redistribution. While the main contribution of this article is to clarify the conclusions of these models, we also illustrate the importance of their distinct implications by analyzing Western European data to compare among them. We draw on individual-level data from the European Social Survey fielded …
Defining The Economic Pie, Not Dividing Or Maximizing It, Martha T. Mccluskey
Defining The Economic Pie, Not Dividing Or Maximizing It, Martha T. Mccluskey
Journal Articles
This essay challenges the question that drives much of legal analysis: whether to maximize or divide the “economic pie.” Regardless of the answer, this question skews legal analysis and rests on dubious economics. This framing binary inherently presents economic maximizing as the presumptive norm, represented as superior to socioeconomic distribution in both spatial and temporal dimensions. By definition, economic “maximizing” stands larger in scope and first in order. The essay first critiques the idea that legal analysis can aim to make the economy bigger without engaging contested questions of value and politics, showing how this misleading separation of quantity from …
Are We Economic Engines Too? Precarity, Productivity, And Gender, Martha T. Mccluskey
Are We Economic Engines Too? Precarity, Productivity, And Gender, Martha T. Mccluskey
Journal Articles
No abstract provided.
Unicorns, Guardians, And The Concentration Of The U.S. Equity Markets, Amy Deen Westbrook, David A. Westbrook
Unicorns, Guardians, And The Concentration Of The U.S. Equity Markets, Amy Deen Westbrook, David A. Westbrook
Journal Articles
No abstract provided.
Prolegomenon To A Defense Of The City Of Gold, David A. Westbrook
Prolegomenon To A Defense Of The City Of Gold, David A. Westbrook
Journal Articles
In recent political contests, economics has been used as a subjective language of disputation and identification, contradicting the field's traditional aspirations to objectivity, even science. In both partisan politics and the related but not identical bifurcation between "populist" and "establishment" or "elite" discourse, positions have become routinized into antagonistic tropes. This poses a serious problem for the United States, which uses political discourse not only for politics, but to create social cohesion among disparate groups. More generally, elites bereft of Marx no longer have a grammar with which to conceptualize, critique, and ultimately defend the global liberal order that they …
The Altruistic Rich? Inequality And Other-Regarding Preferences For Redistribution, Matthew Dimick, David Rueda, Daniel Stegmueller
The Altruistic Rich? Inequality And Other-Regarding Preferences For Redistribution, Matthew Dimick, David Rueda, Daniel Stegmueller
Journal Articles
What determines support among individuals for redistributive policies? Do individuals care about others when they assess the consequences of redistribution? This article proposes a model of other-regarding preferences for redistribution, which we term income-dependent altruism. Our model predicts that an individual’s preferred level of redistribution is decreasing in income, increasing in inequality, and, more importantly, that the inequality effect is increasing in income. Thus, even though the rich prefer less redistribution than the poor, the rich are more responsive, in a positive way, to changes in inequality than are the poor. We contrast these results with several other prominent …
The Push Green Development Zone: Building Housing Equity From The Ground Up, Sam Magavern, Aaron Bartley
The Push Green Development Zone: Building Housing Equity From The Ground Up, Sam Magavern, Aaron Bartley
Buffalo Law Review
No abstract provided.
Constitutional Economic Justice: Structural Power For "We The People", Martha T. Mccluskey
Constitutional Economic Justice: Structural Power For "We The People", Martha T. Mccluskey
Journal Articles
Toward that goal, this essay proposes a structural principle of collective economic power for “we the people.” This principle is both consistent with longstanding Constitutional ideals and tailored to the current challenges of neoliberal ideology and policy. It develops two premises: first, it rejects the neoliberal economic ideology that defines legitimate power and freedom as individualized “choice” constrained by an existing political economy. Instead, this proposed principle recognizes that meaningful political economic freedom and power fundamentally consist of access to collective organizations with potential to create a “more perfect union” with better and less constrained options. Second, the post-Lochner principle …
Special Economic Zones In The United States: From Colonial Charters, To Foreign-Trade Zones, Toward Ussezs, Tom W. Bell
Special Economic Zones In The United States: From Colonial Charters, To Foreign-Trade Zones, Toward Ussezs, Tom W. Bell
Buffalo Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Birth Of A Legal Economy: Lawyers And The Development Of American Commerce, Justin Simard
The Birth Of A Legal Economy: Lawyers And The Development Of American Commerce, Justin Simard
Buffalo Law Review
No abstract provided.
Framing Middle-Class Insecurity: Tax And The Ideology Of Unequal Economic Growth, Martha T. Mccluskey
Framing Middle-Class Insecurity: Tax And The Ideology Of Unequal Economic Growth, Martha T. Mccluskey
Journal Articles
Prevailing tax discourse rationalizes growing economic inequality. Using the example of state and local economic development “subsidy wars,” this article explores how conventional tax ideas present unequal sacrifice and risk as a public responsibility, driven by economic fact rather than unjust politics.
Over the last several decades, one contributing cause of inequality has been the escalating tax and spending incentives offered by local governments to attract private business investment. This competition operates to favor wealthy corporations over small businesses, without producing broad or lasting economic gains to communities, and it erodes resources for public education, infrastructure, social services, health care, …
A Bridge Between: Law And The New Intellectual Histories Of Capitalism, Ajay K. Mehrotra
A Bridge Between: Law And The New Intellectual Histories Of Capitalism, Ajay K. Mehrotra
Buffalo Law Review
No abstract provided.
Capitalism And Risk: Concepts, Consequences, And Ideologies, Edward A. Purcell Jr.
Capitalism And Risk: Concepts, Consequences, And Ideologies, Edward A. Purcell Jr.
Buffalo Law Review
No abstract provided.
Organic Poise: Capitalism As Law, Christopher Tomlins
Organic Poise: Capitalism As Law, Christopher Tomlins
Buffalo Law Review
No abstract provided.
Law And Economics: Contemporary Approaches, Martha T. Mccluskey, Frank A. Pasquale Iii, Jennifer Taub
Law And Economics: Contemporary Approaches, Martha T. Mccluskey, Frank A. Pasquale Iii, Jennifer Taub
Journal Articles
A relatively narrow version of Law and Economics has dominated public policy for several decades. This school of thought has mainly focused on neoclassical microeconomics. It fails to recognize the pluralism of contemporary economics in general, and the relevance of macroeconomics in particular. So-called “market forces” are thoroughly intertwined with law and cannot be understood without some reference to history, sociology, psychology, and other social sciences. It is time for legal scholars to develop a law and economics curriculum that catches up with the advance of economics as a discipline.
The urgent challenges of the 21st Century also call for …
Personal Responsibility For Systemic Inequality, Martha T. Mccluskey
Personal Responsibility For Systemic Inequality, Martha T. Mccluskey
Contributions to Books
Published as Chapter 15 in Research Handbook on Political Economy and Law, Ugo Mattei & John D. Haskell, eds.
Equality has faded as a guiding ideal for legal theory and policy. An updated message of personal responsibility has helped rationalize economic policies fostering increased inequality and insecurity. In this revised message, economic “losers” should take personal responsibility not only for the harmful effects of their individual economic decisions, but also for the harmful effects of systemic failures beyond their individual control or action. In response to the 2008 financial crisis, this re-tooled message of personal responsibility promoted mass austerity in …
Framing Elite Consensus, Ideology And Theory And A Classcrits Response, Athena D. Mutua
Framing Elite Consensus, Ideology And Theory And A Classcrits Response, Athena D. Mutua
Journal Articles
This short paper, really a thought piece, builds upon the examination begun in the Foreword of the ClassCrits VI Symposium which sought to outline a ClassCrits critique of neoclassical economic principles. It argues that neoliberal practices, theory and ideology, built on the scaffold of neoclassical economic ideas, frame an elite consensus that makes elites feel good but which are ethically, intellectually, and structurally problematic for the social well-being of most Americans. It does so, in part, by chronicling a number of recent practices of large corporations, including for example, the practice of inversion. Again, this paper takes as its specific …
Occupy Copyright: A Law & Economic Analysis Of U.S. Author Termination Rights, Kate Darling
Occupy Copyright: A Law & Economic Analysis Of U.S. Author Termination Rights, Kate Darling
Buffalo Law Review
No abstract provided.
Latcrit Praxis @ Xx: Toward Equal Justice In Law, Education And Society, Tayyab Mahmud, Athena D. Mutua, Francisco Valdes
Latcrit Praxis @ Xx: Toward Equal Justice In Law, Education And Society, Tayyab Mahmud, Athena D. Mutua, Francisco Valdes
Journal Articles
This article marks the twentieth anniversary of Latina and Latino Critical Legal Theory or the LatCrit organization, an association of diverse scholars committed to the production of knowledge from the perspective of Outsider or OutCrit jurisprudence. The article first reflects on the historical development of LatCrit’s substantive, methodological, and institutional commitments and practices. It argues that these traditions were shaped not only by its members’ goals and commitments but also by the politics of backlash present at its birth in the form of the “cultural wars,” and which have since morphed into perpetual “crises” grounded in neoliberal policies. With this …
Stuck: Fictions, Failures And Market Talk As Race Talk, Athena D. Mutua
Stuck: Fictions, Failures And Market Talk As Race Talk, Athena D. Mutua
Journal Articles
ClassCrits is a network of scholars and activists interested in critical analysis of law, the economy, and inequality. We aim to better integrate the rich diversity of economic methods and theories into law by exploring and engaging a variety of heterodox economic theories; including reviving, from the margins and shadowy past, discussions of class relations and their possible relevance to the contemporary context.
As a participant in the ClassCrits VI conference entitled, “Stuck in Forward: Debt, Austerity and the Possibilities of the Political”, I sat there at the end of the first day and puzzled over the fact that our …