Chaumtoli Huq, ‘Integrating a Racial Capitalism Framework into First-Year Contracts: A Pathway to Anticapitalist Lawyering’, 35 Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development (forthcoming 2022), available at SSRN. Professor Chaumtoli Huq’s recently posted article, ‘Integrating a Racial Capitalism Framework into First-Year Contracts: A Pathway to Anticapitalist Lawyering’, provides an accessible and insightful map for engaging with and applying theories of racial capitalism in a first year Contracts law course. Her Article is a powerful testament to the idea that critical legal thinking skills are good legal practice skills. Asking questions informed by racial capitalism enables us to better articulate in the classroom how the law that builds and reinforces capitalism is not (only) racially exploitative through one-off instances of discrimination, but rather throughout the very foundations of labor, property, contract, and corporate jurisprudence … (more)
[Priya S Gupta, JOTWELL, 21 June]
First posted 2022-06-21 15:00:02
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