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Seron and Munger's article addresses the inequality found in our legal system, especially between classes. However, rather than passing any sort of judgment on this, they instead treat it as a simple fact. A fact that they hope researchers will take into account, lest their research be tainted by idealism or not entirely informed views.
An idea I found very interesting within this article was on page 205, where they begin talking about the idea of more and more international law and business in the modern world, and what this means to class. They raise the idea that in this context an entire culture can be perceived as a class, thereby raising the status of some and lowering the status of others. They don't say much more about this idea, but it seems that this could have enormous implications that I'm sure have already been looked into, but I would be curious to read more about.
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Hey Stephen,
ReplyDeleteI also had a chance to read this article. The point you bring up is a valid one, and I feel like it applies to much the Seron and Munger article. The transformation of an entire culture into a specific class is intriguing, and really, somewhat troublesome, as I feel that even a lot of class labels now are entirely correct. But, as you said, they failed to elaborate more on that thought. I feel like this applied to a majority of the piece. Each idea or thought seemed valid, at least most of them did, but they simply werre not completed, and I felt like in some cases, this article left me with more questions than answers.
The biggest part of the article was the idea that class really hasn't been theorized or definined in the way that it affects law and society, yet in the end it still seemed to me like Seron and Munger carried on this tradition. They demonstrated the various uses and problems that class amounts to when it comes to litigation, but they really left the topic as open-ended as they had originally began. Really, it was kind of disappointing.