Law and Race in George Orwell

Intellectual freedom versus economic centralization 1984 and George Orwell ’ s

TO THE END of his life, George Orwell remained a socialist. In “Why I Write” (1946), we find his programmatic statement: “Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism, as I understand it.”* Orwell had fiercely attacked the attitude of capitalist society towards the poor in Down and Our in...

Down and almost out in Scotland: George Orwell, tuberculosis and getting streptomycin in 1948.

Old George Orwell Got It Backward: Some Thoughts on Behavioral Tax Economics

It is entirely appropriate that the study of public finance take seriously ‘‘behavioral’’ inconsistencies with traditional models of individual and collective decision-making. This raises the question of whether the state should play a role in protecting individuals from themselves, and whether individuals are susceptible to manipulation, or even exploitation, by the people who comprise the sta...

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Overview of Supervised Externship Program The Supervised Externship Program allows students to receive academic credit for practical and substantive legal work performed outside of a classroom setting. Basic requirements are:  Externship must be approved in advance of start date.  Work must be done under the direct supervision of a practicing attorney.  Assignments must be substantive and le...

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