Most Recent Articles from University of Pennsylvania Law Review

• "We live's in a free house such as it is": class and the creation of modern civil rights. 

  INTRODUCTION The shift during the 1940s from American public concern with class to concern with race has become a commonplace in American...

  06/01/03 by Goluboff, Risa L. · More from publication

• Corporations without labor: the politics of progressive corporate law. 

  "We, the rank and file, got burned.... I thought that people had to treat us honestly and deal fairly with us. In my neck of the woods, what...

  06/01/03 by Tsuk, Dalia · More from publication

• "In danger of becoming morally depraved": single black women, working-class black families, and New York state's wayward minor laws, 1917-1928. 

  INTRODUCTION In 1923, Gail Lewis attended a local Fourth of July party. (1) Instead of coming directly home after realizing that she had...

  06/01/03 by Hicks, Cheryl D. · More from publication

• Race as identity caricature: a local legal history lesson in the salience of intraracial conflict. 

  INTRODUCTION In a seminal article published in The Yale Law Journal during the late 1970s, Professor Derrick Bell offered a stinging critique...

  06/01/03 by Brown-Nagin, Tomiko · More from publication

• "Who they are - or were": middle-class welfare in the early New Deal. 

  INTRODUCTION Class is all but invisible in contemporary American social discourse. At most, it is a fleeting image, a rarely detected...

  06/01/03 by Malamud, Deborah C. · More from publication

• The effects of collegiality on judicial decision making. 

  In The Nature of the Judicial Process, Justice Benjamin Cardozo tried to explain how appellate judges overcome their individual predilections in...

  05/01/03 by Edwards, Harry T. · More from publication

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