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Deborah W. Post

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Vulnerable Populations And Transformative Law Teaching: A Critical Reader, Chapter 6 - Vulnerability In Contracting: Teaching First-Year Law Students About Inequality And Its Consequences, Deborah Post, Deborah Zalesne Nov 2013

Vulnerable Populations And Transformative Law Teaching: A Critical Reader, Chapter 6 - Vulnerability In Contracting: Teaching First-Year Law Students About Inequality And Its Consequences, Deborah Post, Deborah Zalesne

Deborah W. Post

Traditional legal pedagogy fails to demonstrate the relationship of contract to the subordination of vulnerable populations. As a result, students rarely see the complex web of interrelationships where economic activity takes place or the legal regime that maintains it. Students are not taught how to interrogate the discourse or dismantle the systems and structures that oppress subordinated communities. This Essay describes a technique that we have developed to help students learn the meaning of law and its cultural, social, and structural significance. The traditional framing of the study of contract doctrine as one that is objective, neutral, and fair avoids …


Critical Thoughts About Race, Exclusion, Oppression And Tenure, Deborah W. Post Aug 2011

Critical Thoughts About Race, Exclusion, Oppression And Tenure, Deborah W. Post

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Contested Meanings: Achievement And Ambition At An Elite Law School, Deborah Waire Post Apr 2011

Contested Meanings: Achievement And Ambition At An Elite Law School, Deborah Waire Post

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Teaching Interdisciplinarily: Law And Literature As Cultural Critique, Deborah Waire Post Apr 2011

Teaching Interdisciplinarily: Law And Literature As Cultural Critique, Deborah Waire Post

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Critical Thoughts About Race, Exclusion, Oppression And Tenure, Deborah W. Post Apr 2011

Critical Thoughts About Race, Exclusion, Oppression And Tenure, Deborah W. Post

Deborah W. Post

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Power And The Morality Of Grading - A Case Study And A Few Critical Thoughts On Grade Normalization, Deborah Waire Post Apr 2011

Power And The Morality Of Grading - A Case Study And A Few Critical Thoughts On Grade Normalization, Deborah Waire Post

Deborah W. Post

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