Document Type

Working Paper

Publication Date

11-2-2014

SSRN Discipline

Legal Scholarship Network; PSN Subject Matter eJournals; Criminal Law & Procedure eJournals; Political Theory eJournals; Law School Research Papers - Legal Studies; Law & Society eJournals; Law & Society: Public Law eJournals; LSN Subject Matter eJournals; AARN Subject Matter eJournals; Political Science Network; Anthropology & Archaeology Research Network

Abstract

Written for a symposium honoring Derrick Bell Laws Violence identifies strands in his scholarship suggesting that in his final years he was becoming interested in laws contribution to a violent society I show how he was intrigued with both originary violence and the ordinary kind and possibly nearing a broad synthesis showing the place of racial oppression in a more encompassing scheme that highlights laws role in increasing the very violence it professes to control

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