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Charles Reich: Due Process In The Eye Of The Receiver, Harold Hongju Koh
Charles Reich: Due Process In The Eye Of The Receiver, Harold Hongju Koh
Touro Law Review
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Supreme Court Precedent And The Politics Of Repudiation, Robert L. Tsai
Supreme Court Precedent And The Politics Of Repudiation, Robert L. Tsai
Faculty Scholarship
This is an invited essay that will appear in a book titled "Law's Infamy," edited by Austin Sarat as part of the Amherst Series on Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought. Every legal order that aspires to be called just is held together by not only principles of justice but also archetypes of morally reprehensible outcomes, and villains as well as heroes. Chief Justice Roger Taney, who believed himself to be a hero solving the great moral question of slavery in the Dred Scott case, is today detested for trying to impose a racist, slaveholding vision of the Constitution upon America. …
Critical Legal Thought: The Case For A Jurisprudence Of Distribution, Paulo Borrozo
Critical Legal Thought: The Case For A Jurisprudence Of Distribution, Paulo Borrozo
University of Colorado Law Review
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Equality And Access To Credit: A Social Contract Framework, John Linarelli
Equality And Access To Credit: A Social Contract Framework, John Linarelli
Scholarly Works
The problems governments face in regulating consumer finance fall into two categories: normative and cognitive. The normative problems have to do with the way that some governments, particularly those adhering to an American model of household finance, have financed social mobility and intergenerational welfare through debt, a tenuous and socially risky policy choice. Credit has a substantial social aspect to it in the United States, where the federal government has in some way engaged in subsidizing about 1/3 of consumer credit, particularly in the residential mortgage market, feeding into a substantial capital markets dimension through government-guaranteed securitization. Most Americans think …