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Law as a Eurocentric Enterprise

@article{Nunn1997LawAA,
  title={Law as a Eurocentric Enterprise},
  author={Kenneth B. Nunn},
  journal={Law and Inequality},
  year={1997},
  volume={15},
  pages={323}
}
  • K. Nunn
  • Published 1997
  • Sociology
  • Law and Inequality
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28 Citations

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Not All Your Neighbors Are Free: Community Building with Incarcerated Folks in San Luis Obispo

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Uncovering the Blind Eye of Lady Justice Through the Minds of Power

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Tearing at the Seams of (In)visibility: Anti-counterfeiting, Harper's Bazaar, and the Project of Neocolonization

This essay examines the role of the fashion industry in shaping democracy, citizenship, and human rights ideals in the United States. Using Harper’s Bazaar’s “Fakes are Never in Fashion”…

Hall Pass: DACA recipients’ experiences “passing” in higher education

ABSTRACT Undocumented students face numerous hardships in their pursuit of higher education. Those who are part of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program experience some improved…

Reframing Corporate Subjectivity: Systemic Inequality and the Company at the Intersection of Race, Gender and Poverty

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Personal Bankruptcy and Race: When the Public-Private Welfare State is Predatory

This article argues that personal bankruptcy is part of a “dual state,” that simultaneously provides welfare to some while being predatory to others. Viewed from within the tradition of the…

Radical affirmative action: a call to address hegemonic racialized themes in U.S. higher education race-conscious admissions legal discourse

Abstract Anti-affirmative action legal discourse about U.S. higher education within selective institutions race-conscious admissions encompasses co-opted civil rights aims for racial equity in…

Customary International Law: A Third World Perspective

  • B. Chimni
  • Economics
    American Journal of International Law
  • 2018
Abstract The article offers an alternative account of the evolution, formation, and function of customary international law (CIL) from a third world perspective. It argues that there is an intimate…

Fraternal Twins: Critical Race Theory and Systemic Racism Theory as Analytic and Activist Tools for College Sport Reform

As critical race-based epistemologies rooted in the Black radical intellectual tradition of scholars and activists such as Frederick Douglass, David Walker, W.E.B DuBois, Ida B. Wells, Anna Julia…

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