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The Intersectional Origins Of Modern Feminist Legal Advocacy, Serena Mayeri
The Intersectional Origins Of Modern Feminist Legal Advocacy, Serena Mayeri
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Intersectionality, reproductive justice, abolitionism, LGBTQ+ liberation, and democracy defense have moved to the center of twenty-first century feminist legal thought and advocacy, with feminists of color and queer scholars and activists at the forefront. But it wasn’t always so. Or was it?
Antipolitics And The Administrative State, Cary Coglianese, Daniel Walters
Antipolitics And The Administrative State, Cary Coglianese, Daniel Walters
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The modern administrative state plays a vital role in governing society and the economy, but the role that politics should play in administrators’ decisions remains contested. The various regulatory and social service agencies that make up the administrative state are staffed with experts who are commonly thought to be charged with making only technocratic judgments outside the pressures of ordinary politics. In this article, we consider what it might mean for the administrative state to be antipolitical. We identify two conceptions of an antipolitical administrative state. The first of these—antipolitics as antidiscretion—holds that, in a democracy, value judgments should only …