CLASS RELATIONS AND THE LAW: A MODEL AND AGENDA FOR RESEARCH.
The article focuses on the interplay between class relations and law, particularly how legal frameworks shape and reinforce economic inequalities and class divisions in contemporary society. It critiques the under-theorization of "class" within legal scholarship and proposes a model that defines cla...
| Published in: | Law & Contemporary Problems Vol. 88; no. 1; pp. 61 - 79 |
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Duke University
2025
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