http://www.sup.org/rss/law.xml Stanford University Press - Law RSS Feed Sat, 17 Jun 2017 09:02:01 +0000 en-us Copyright 2017 Stanford University Press SimpleXML (http://www.php.net//manual/en/book.simplexml.php) webmaster@www.sup.org http://www.sup.org/img/icons/treeWhiteOnRed200x200.jpg http://www.sup.org/rss/law.xml Bernie Madoff's arrest could not have come at a more darkly poetic moment. Economic upheaval had plunged America into a horrid recession. Then, on December 11, 2008, Madoff's $65 billion Ponzi scheme came to light. A father turned in by his sons; a son who took his own life; another son dying and estranged from his father; a woman at the center of a storm—Madoff's story was a media magnet, voraciously consumed by a justice-seeking public. <i>Bernie Madoff and the Crisis</i> goes beyond purely investigative accounts to examine how and why Madoff became the epicenter of public fury and titillation. Rooting her argument in critical sociology, Colleen P. Eren analyzes media coverage of this landmark case alongside original interviews with dozens of journalists and editors involved in the reportage, the SEC Director of Public Affairs, and Bernie Madoff himself. Turning the mirror back onto society, Eren locates Madoff within a broader reckoning about free market capitalism. She argues that our ideological and cultural tendencies to attribute blame to individuals—be they regulators, victims, or "monsters" like Madoff—distracts us from more systemic critiques. <i>Bernie Madoff and the Crisis</i> offers fresh insight into the 2008 crisis, whether we have come to terms with it, and what we have yet to gain from the case of the century. http://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=25123 http://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=25123 <i>The Poverty of Privacy Rights</i> makes a simple, controversial argument: Poor mothers in America have been deprived of the right to privacy. The U.S. Constitution is supposed to bestow rights equally. Yet the poor are subject to invasions of privacy that can be perceived as gross demonstrations of governmental power without limits. Courts have routinely upheld the constitutionality of privacy invasions on the poor, and legal scholars typically understand marginalized populations to have "weak versions" of the privacy rights everyone else enjoys. Khiara M. Bridges investigates poor mothers' experiences with the state—both when they receive public assistance and when they do not. Presenting a holistic view of just how the state intervenes in all facets of poor mothers' privacy, Bridges shows how the Constitution has not been interpreted to bestow these women with family, informational, and reproductive privacy rights. Bridges seeks to turn popular thinking on its head: Poor mothers' lack of privacy is not a function of their reliance on government assistance—rather it is a function of their not bearing any privacy rights in the first place. Until we disrupt the cultural narratives that equate poverty with immorality, poor mothers will continue to be denied this right. http://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=25115 http://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=25115