The chapter starts with an observation: contemporary elite jurists pursue, vis-à-vis one another, a ‘hermeneutic of suspicion', meaning that they work to uncover hidden ideological motives behind the ‘wrong' legal arguments of their opponents, while affirming their own right answers...

This article appropriates Ricardo and Marx as progenitors of one of the contemporary CLS approaches to law and political economy. In the first part, I look at Ricardo and Marx through a presentist lens. I ignore their allegiance to the labor theory of value and restate what I think is important...

The question of interpreting Donald Trump's election, in liberal discourse, is mainly “how can he have won, given that he is racist and sexist?” The answer of many of my friends is that he won because his racism and sexism appealed to a shockingly large part of the electorate, confirming...

On January 20, 2020, I testified before the Massachusetts legislature’s Joint Committee on Housing in favor of two bills then being considered that would have revived rent control in the Commonwealth. My testimony was a head-on attack on the industry arguments against the bills. Their...