Document Type
Article
Publication Date
4-2007
Abstract
In response to the prevalent view that American law and legal institutions are class and color blind, this Article provides examples of how legal institutions sometimes do create and maintain racialized wealth disparities. The Article offers examples of this phenomenon by examining a sequence of federal judicial decisions, the federal taxing statutes, the role of legal education, and access to legal services. These examples are instructive because they cut across a broad spectrum of components of the American legal system. By revisiting issues of race and wealth in different legal settings from the Constitution to federal cases, the tax system, and legal education and practice, this Article confirms that race and wealth are both involved in legal outcomes and ignored by legal actors and institutions in a systematic way. Legal actors and citizens of all vocations need to look more critically at the American legal landscape and critique the influence of race and wealth.
Automated Citation
Beverly Moran and Stephanie Wildman,
Race and Wealth Disparity: The Role of Law and the Legal System
, 34 Fordham Urb. L. J. 1219
(2007),
Available at: https://digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/facpubs/93