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Spring 2006

 

The Feminist Legal Theory Workshop will provide students exposure to new work by scholars of feminist legal theory. Each week a prominent scholar in this area will come to the Law School to present new work or a work-in-progress and discuss it with the members of the seminar. Students enrolled in the Workshop will be expected to read each paper and write a short (1-2 pages) response paper in advance of the Workshop meeting. Papers must be e-mailed to Professors Franke, Sanger and Chasin by noon on Monday (kfranke@law.columbia.edu; csanger@law.columbia.edu, ac2446@columbia.edu). Class attendance is mandatory and students will be evaluated on a pass/fail basis.

Papers will be distributed by hard copy and digitally from Eric Bornemann, eborne@law.columbia.edu

Additional readings for each week are in Ertman and Williams, Rethinking Commodification (2004)

 
  • January 24th: Jean Howard, Columbia University, English and Comp Lit - Sex and The Market and the City

    • Martha Nussbaum, "Taking Money for Bodily Services" pp. 243-247
     
  • February 7th: Mary Anne Case, U. Chicago Law School - Pets or Meat?

    • Margaret Jane Radin, "Contested Commodities" pp. 81-95

    Michael J. Sandel, "What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets" pp. 122-127
  • March 7th: Janet Jakobsen, Barnard Center for Research on Women - Gender, Sex and Value(s)

    • Miranda Joseph, "The Mulitvalent Commodity: On the Supplementarity" pp. 383-401
     
  • March 21st: Margaret Radin, Stanford Law School - Continuing Dilemmas of Commodification

    • Elisabeth M. Landes and Richard A. Posner, "The Economics of the Baby Shortage" pp. 46-57
     
  • April 4th: Victoria deGrazia, Columbia University, History - What It Takes to Make a Super Market

    • Tanya Katerí Hernández, "Sex in the [Foreign] City: Commodification and the Female Sex Tourist Industry pp. 222-242
     
  • April 11th: Martha Ertman, U. of Utah Law School - Contractual Ordering of Intimate Relationships

    • Teemu Ruskola, "Homo Economicus: What is the Difference Between a Family and a Corporation" pp. 324-344

     

    For more information, please contact Eric Bornemann at eborne@law.columbia.edu, 854-2511

     

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