Prerequisites: None

Exam Type: No Exam

This Workshop will consider inequality through critical theories and sociolegal perspectives. After a theoretical introduction, we will examine inequality in several US and global domains, such as geography, race, and poverty/work/labor. Finally, we will learn methodologies for “mapping” how law drives the genesis, elaboration, reinforcement, and maintenance of hierarchies of privilege and disadvantage across individuals, groups, localities, regions, nations and more. As we identify key legal drivers of inequalities, we will explore ways that law and policy changes, often small, can converge to shift bargaining power, redistribute resources, and otherwise ameliorate those inequalities in often surprising ways. Students will work in clusters to research a domain of inequality and develop a “map” of its legal drivers to devise multiplex strategies of change. 1Ls, LLMs, SJDs, and students from other Schools and Departments are welcomed to apply.