In response to the prevalent view that American law and legal institutions are class and color blind, this Article provides examples of how legal institutions sometimes do create and maintain racialized wealth disparities. The Article offers examples of this phenomenon by examining a sequence of federal judicial decisions, the federal taxing statutes, the role of legal education, and access to legal services. These examples are instructive because they cut across a broad spectrum of components of the American legal system. By revisiting issues of race and wealth in different legal settings from the Constitution to federal cases, the tax system, and legal education and practice, this Article confirms that race and wealth are both involved in...
Proposed campaign finance reforms and critiques of current campaign finance jurisprudence are incomp...
This article provides evidence that the American taxation system disproportionately impacts the Blac...
A Review of The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans—and How We Can...
This Article attempts to demonstrate that legal and racial disparities are taken into account in leg...
Many believe that the legal system has achieved racial neutrality because statutes and regulations d...
Many believe that the legal system has achieved racial neutrality because statutes and regulations d...
Early Law and Economics advocates asserted that antidiscrimination laws were wasteful and unnecessar...
Race theorists have noted that racial discrimination has shaped the existing distribution of economi...
This Article surveys the extent and causes of racial inequality with respect to control over propert...
This Article describes the connection between wealth inequality and the increasing structural racism...
The theory of racial capitalism offers insights into the relationship between class and race, provid...
In 2007, two workshops at the University at Buffalo launched a project bringing together legal schol...
A long-standing justification for the institution of property is that it encourages effort and plann...
Over the past several decades, economic inequality has grown dramatically in the United States while...
In this Article, Professor Greenberg argues that law schools claim to treat African American student...
Proposed campaign finance reforms and critiques of current campaign finance jurisprudence are incomp...
This article provides evidence that the American taxation system disproportionately impacts the Blac...
A Review of The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans—and How We Can...
This Article attempts to demonstrate that legal and racial disparities are taken into account in leg...
Many believe that the legal system has achieved racial neutrality because statutes and regulations d...
Many believe that the legal system has achieved racial neutrality because statutes and regulations d...
Early Law and Economics advocates asserted that antidiscrimination laws were wasteful and unnecessar...
Race theorists have noted that racial discrimination has shaped the existing distribution of economi...
This Article surveys the extent and causes of racial inequality with respect to control over propert...
This Article describes the connection between wealth inequality and the increasing structural racism...
The theory of racial capitalism offers insights into the relationship between class and race, provid...
In 2007, two workshops at the University at Buffalo launched a project bringing together legal schol...
A long-standing justification for the institution of property is that it encourages effort and plann...
Over the past several decades, economic inequality has grown dramatically in the United States while...
In this Article, Professor Greenberg argues that law schools claim to treat African American student...
Proposed campaign finance reforms and critiques of current campaign finance jurisprudence are incomp...
This article provides evidence that the American taxation system disproportionately impacts the Blac...
A Review of The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans—and How We Can...