Political Economy and Law?

Harvard HLS

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: Last Class Take-Home This two credit course will consider left liberal and more radical intellectual traditions for thinking about political economy and what law has to do with it. Along the way, we will contrast alternative ideas about how the great disparities in wealth, status and authority arise, are reproduced and might be reduced. Is law primarily a reformer’s tool - or something more fundamental to the reproduction of hierarchies? What would it…