Law and Economics : Toward Social Justice

This volume contains 10 articles by 12 notable legal scholars that explore the relationship between law and economics principles and social justice. The first category of papers, Economics and Business Law: Challenges to Social Justice, examine some of the presumptions underlying legal theory and doctrine in the business arena that often have the effect of protecting the existing distribution of wealth and power and encouraging corporate conduct that threatens the interests of workers, the community, the environment, and other stakeholders. The articles in the second category, Seeking Social Justice Through Law and Economics, look at how traditional law and economics principles influence achieving justice in the context of race, gender, and sexual orientation. The articles in the volume taken as a whole expose many of the problematic assumptions and rhetoric applied in scholarship as well as in governing law and policy and offer suggestions for new principles and frameworks that would promote a vision of society that goes beyond traditional economic efficiency to ensure fairness and equality for all. Book jacket.