Community Lawyering in Resistance to Neoliberalism

Professional Responsibility When Lawyering

Celebrating Great Lawyering

Welsh White was addicted to scholarship, and his last book, Litigating in the Shadow of Death, was published five days after he died. White held an advance copy a few days before his death, admired the dust jacket, and heard his wife Linda and a friend read a portion of the text. Litigating in the Shadow of Death examines the work of defense attorneys in capital cases. Like much of White’s earl...

Poverty Lawyering in a New Millennium

Desiring Neoliberalism

The paper is based on the premise that neoliberalism is a political rationality that is not only anti-social but also requires an anti-democratic and violent form of statehood. However, neoliberalism is not solely based on coercion and force, but paradoxically also on consensus. This consensus is not least organized through its flexibilized and pluralized sexual politics. By focussing on sexual...

Does Adversarialism Cause Neoliberalism

The Politics of Free Markets (Prasad 2006) is a major contribution to political sociology. It addresses a central mystery in the field: why did the rich democracies suddenly embrace neoliberal policies in the last decades of the twentieth century—cutting taxes, abandoning welfare commitments, and reducing the state’s control over industry? And it does not pin the blame for neoliberal policies o...