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Theorizing Agency, Susan Carle
Theorizing Agency, Susan Carle
Susan D. Carle
Progressive legal scholars today exhibit contrasting views on the scope of legal actors' agency in making "choices" about how to lead their lives. Feminist legal scholar Joan C. Williams, for example, challenges claims that women who leave the paid workforce to stay home with children have made a voluntary choice to take this path. Critical race scholar Ian Haney López, on the other hand, argues that the social construction of racial identity occurs precisely through the many voluntary choices members of both subordinated and dominant racial groups make about matters that implicate racial meanings. Williams contests the idea of voluntary …
Free Will Paradigms, Kent Greenfield
Free Will Paradigms, Kent Greenfield
Kent Greenfield
One of the iconic issues in American law and politics is the question of free will—sometimes known as agency, choice, or autonomy, or the absence of duress, coercion, and compulsion. In politics, whether one is liberal or conservative, we balk at government limitations on choice and fight those limitations with legal arguments about rights and political rhetoric about freedom. Liberals demand access to abortions, want the ability to purchase medical marijuana, and bristle at pat-down searches before boarding a plane. Conservatives dislike requirements to buy health insurance or pay taxes, rail against limits on gun ownership and school prayer, and …
Consent In Context: Fulfilling The Promise Of International Arbitration (Multiparty, Multi-Contract, And Non-Contract Arbitration), Preface By Jan Paulsson, Karim Youssef
Dr. Karim Y Youssef
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