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Martha M. Ertman

2011

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Rethinking Commodification: Cases And Readings In Law And Culture, Martha Ertman, Joan Williams Nov 2011

Rethinking Commodification: Cases And Readings In Law And Culture, Martha Ertman, Joan Williams

Martha M. Ertman

What is the price of a limb? A child? Ethnicity? Love? In a world that is often ruled by buyers and sellers, those things that are often considered priceless become objects to be marketed and from which to earn a profit. Ranging from black market babies to exploitative sex trade operations to the marketing of race and culture, Rethinking Commodification presents an interdisciplinary collection of writings, including legal theory, case law, and original essays to reexamine the traditional legal question: ̶To commodify or not to commodify?” In this pathbreaking course reader, Martha M. Ertman and Joan C. Williams present the …